It's a small world....

...but I wouldn't want to paint it. Three days after we arrived we were on a ferry taking us back from an island near Auckland where I(Chris) ran into a girl who I had a beer with in Berkeley ~four years ago. She was an editor for a start-up publicly accessible journal called PLoS (Public Library of Science). I was trying to fast-track one of my papers through the review process.

1.5 weeks later I met these guys on a bus from Auckland down south. Steve (the guy on the left) literally lives three blocks from my house. He used to pick up my next door

neighbor for school every morning. We all went to the same junior high and high schools (~10 yrs apart) and even had some of the same teachers. Of course the teachers we shared are now pretty much on their death-beds. Chad, on the right, has a mom who works at the same hosptial my mom works at. I wonder who I'll run into next?