Like crack for geeks

It's six degrees of Livejournal! Forgive me if you saw this back in 2003, but I didn't know it existed, and it's providing me no end of amusement.

LiveJournal Connect! Enter your username in the left box, someone else's username (or a * for a random one) in the right box, and press the button! -> Quiet Mutual 2 chains No 1-hop Users to ignore: Coded by sachmet

Try this: fill in two people from your friends' list who don't know each other. Put your name in "Users to ignore". Make it go.

If you come up with one with four hops or less, try and come up with a plausible explanation for how each person knows the next (viewing each person's profile page).

I chose: my brother, and a colleague of dan's who's currently in Germany.

( To my surprise... )

For the icing on the cake, I hope to meet the author of this tool, sachmet, at the upcoming Perl conference this June in Toronto.