it's a small galaxy, after all
Monday night, out at a bar with some friends, I told the story of how my father sat next to Mark Hamill on a business flight sometime in 1977 or 1978. I told this story because @TimothyHuang was showing us a picture on his Blackberry of himself with Mark Hamill. Of course, my dad had no idea who he was until they made polite conversation about they did for a living. Mark did autographs for my brother and I - we were about 9 and 3 at the time.
It turns out that two of these friends, @gooddirt and @TimothyHuang, who had never met before Monday night, lived in the same small rural town in Taiwan when they were very young. And they both happen to be my age. So while dad was chatting with Luke Skywalker at 35,000 feet, those two might have been toddling down the same street in Taiwan. It's a small world, after all, especially in New York.
PS - I always thought my brother's autograph was way cooler - "May the force be with - Micheal."
