For me it was Jeff Kinney. I was meeting a different author I love, but there wasn’t enough room downstairs and we had to go up. Turns out that’s exactly where Jeff Kinney works! He’s the author who got me into reading so I thought that was so cool

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    Well, I’ve met Kevin Bacon so now you’re a 2.

    Funny story really, I live in West LA… I was watching my kids play in the park and saw a familiar-looking dad watching his, so I wandered up and said, “I feel like I know you but I can’t remember from where, do your kids go to (local school) or (local play gym) or (local swim classes)?” And he said" … Umm, I’m Kevin Bacon." So I said, “Oh I’m sorry, of course you are!” and let him alone to enjoy being a dad.

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      Haha nice! These things have a funny way of happening.

      I met a colleague of Paul Erdos by walking up to a complete stranger on a train and simply asking if they were a mathematician and if they knew Paul Erdos. He turned out to have a lot of lovely anecdotes to share.

      I’m not sure what possessed me to specifically do that, but I probably won’t do it a second time and risk losing the 100% hit rate for colleague-of-Paul-Erdos divination.