{"id":25233,"date":"2010-07-18T08:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T08:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/grant-me-some-bacon-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-07-18T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T08:10:25","slug":"grant-me-some-bacon-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/grant-me-some-bacon-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Grant me some Bacon | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of Brea Grant<\/a>…<\/p>

Many years ago, I wasn’t a huge fan of Kevin Bacon until I saw \"The Big Picture\", and then \"Tremors\", and so I finally decided he cracks me up and is cool. <\/p>

Then someone told me about the Oracle of Bacon<\/a>, where you enter an actor’s name and get their Bacon Number; their degree of separation from Kevin Bacon (if you don’t know what this is then I won’t explain because you are hopelessly unhip). <\/p>

\"breagrant_kevinbacon\"I put my name into The Oracle and it came up with nothing. Drat. But wait a sec…<\/p>

I’m in this video<\/a> with Brea Grant (see below), who was in \"Halloween II\" with Octavia Spencer, who was in \"Beauty Shop\" with… Kevin Bacon.<\/p>

I have a Bacon Number of 3!<\/strong><\/p>

OK, not officially, since my video with Brea probably doesn’t count. So I looked again at The Oracle, and realized it was only searching movies. As it happens I’ve done a few documentaries which are listed on IMDB, so I hit the \"allow all\" button on the Oracle which includes documentaries…<\/p>

\"oracleofbacon2\"Aha! It still works! It doesn’t include Brea, sadly, but I suspect Aretha is pretty cool, too. <\/p>

Hey, cool! I still<\/em> have a Bacon number of 3.<\/p>

Still, since both methods are a little dodgy, I think it’s fair to fudge it a bit. Let’s just say I have a Bacon Number of a tad more than three… say, 3.1415.<\/p>

Mmmmm. Bacon Pi. <\/p>

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Related posts:<\/p>

- Brea Grant rocks Bad Astronomy!<\/a>
- Grant me a geek<\/a>
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