short breaks and 6 degrees

by far, this is the most exhausting monday/rest day i ever had. i'm not even done and it's almost 11pm.
one of the many things that ticked me off today was the weather. i finished doing my laundry and i can't hang it outside to dry. it was not raining AT ALL earlier today. so i have no choice but to iron each shirt for it to dry most easily. the same happened to m'bunch. the first time in many months that i bathed her and i can't blow dry her on the terrace. so i ended drying her on the stairs. booo. good thing was, for some weird reason, there were literally no pet hairs flying around. and only a few pet hairs were stuck in the brush. hmmm...

in other news, i first heard about this news a long time ago. i didn't know if i should believe it or just pass it off as one of the many urban myths that we have today. read: we are connected by 6 degrees!

In a world of 6.6 billion people, it does seem hard to believe. The theory of six degrees of separation contends that, because we are all linked by chains of acquaintance, you are just six introductions away from any other person on the planet.

But yesterday researchers announced the theory was right - nearly. By studying billions of electronic messages, they worked out that any two strangers are, on average, distanced by precisely 6.6 degrees of separation. In other words, putting fractions to one side, you are linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances to Madonna, the Dalai Lama and the Queen...

... Researchers at Microsoft studied records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people in various countries, according to the Washington Post. This was 'the first time a planetary-scale social network has been available,' they observed.

-- Read Source

cool no?

ciao.