I suspect there are enough mathematicians shading into the theoretical end of bioinformatics that it might actually be worth searching fro mine at some point.

fwiw, I'm three degrees from Kevin Bacon in the formal sense, though very few things are as cool as jonsinger's story of playing "six degrees" with Kevin Bacon's brother while Kevin Bacon looked on, mildly bemused. [ And I've had jonsinger stay at my house. ] It also occurs to me that like many Cantabrigians who drink at the Castle I'm nominally two degrees of separation from the Beatles and the Pythons, and I can also claim that to Bill Clinton two ways, Syd Barrett, as well as the normal congoers' run of cool writerly people.