Tex over at pre-whacked snakes? notes

“I just realised John Quiggin and I work at the same place. I even help train some of his fellow staff and students.

This doesn’t bother me, but it might bother him…..”

Not really, but it does give rise to some interesting thoughts on various kinds of proximity. We’re obviously close in physical space, but in different quadrants of The Political BlogMap. However, since I mainly focus on economics and Tex on “warblogging”, there’s not too much conflict there. We don’t have direct proximity in terms of links (slackness on my part), but the Ozblog community is small enough for two degrees of separation to link almost everyone.
Finally, we’re obviously culturally close enough to share an affinity for The Simpsons