Less than six degrees

So, several months ago, I was updating and cruising around Freindster and I don't know how, but I ended up looking at this guy's photos.

Sure he's cute, and very fit, but many of his 241 friends have shirtless posing profile pics, which is sort of telling (circuit muscle queens do tend to flock together), and some of his photos give some scale and it looks like he may also be a total pocket gay.

But what caught my eye was this photo in his profile:

If you look carefully, the guy sitting at the next table (I can't tell if he is with them or not) is RMJ!

I thought that was so small world so I "grabbed" the guys photo to save it to my account and show RMJ etc.

This afternoon I got an e-mail from my friend Chuck in San Diego. He had been killing time and flipping through Friendster, perusing my photos and say this one. He wrote:

So, I was looking around on friendster and at your pics. You know Will Davis?! He was a friend of mine back in Chicago. Too funny. How did you guys meet?

I had to confess that I actually never met him, I just had his photo because I knew the guy in the background.

So the fact that Chuck and Will are old friends is even more small world, and so very SF. (Then again, I may have found Will via Chuck's Friendster friend list, but I don't remember doing so.)

At first glance, it looked like his companion was the fabulous Suzan, whom I've gotten to know from numerous fun parties and danced with just Sunday at the Castro Street fair.

How much smaller can the world get?

Then I also noticed that the caption on Will's photo indicates that the girl is English and named Julie, so I guess it is not...

Still, finding Waldo RMJ in a random stranger's photo is pretty funny.