It’s a Small Small World
I flew to San Francisco today to attend a conference on the exploration of Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos that is being held at NASA Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley. I will be here for a bit less than two weeks, but more on what I will be doing later. On the flight over I was lucky enough to get a seat at the front of economy class which has extra leg room and because the flight was half empty the seat beside me was empty as well. It was great and I even managed to get about 7 hours sleep!
Anyway, of all the people who could have occupied the other seat in my row, there was a ancient history lecturer heading to a conference at Stanford University. We got talking and discovered that he was from Sydney University, specialises in Greek history and teachers many of the Honours students at USyd. As is often the case it didn’t take long to realise that he knows someone I know - in this case Victor Shaw, a old friend from Sydney Uni who started out doing Engineering and saw the light and switched over the Ancient History. Proof once again it is a small small world.