He had the look of a lawn mower just after the grass had organised a workers' collective. There was a definite suggestion that, deep inside, he knew this was not really happening. It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
@patrick @cunobaros @dwcon From memory*1 #GNUTerryPratchett got his Erdos number via Ian Stewart 4 the Bacon Number was 2 like mine as we were both credited in "The Colour of Magic" Via both Sean Astin & David Jason. For the Sabbath number it was via Steeleye Span 3
*1 I remembered the initial connection but had to use an AI to find the full path and number as it has access to the archives i could not remember full quote below
"Here are the exact collaboration paths for Sir Terry Pratchett’s Erdős–Bacon–Sabbath (EBS) number of 9 (4 + 2 + 3), taken directly from the official open-source Erdős–Bacon–Sabbath project database (GitHub repo rchurchley/erdos-bacon-sabbath, Issue #36, which tracks these numbers).
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Erdős Number: 4Path (mathematical co-authorship chain):Terry Pratchett co-authored The Science of Discworld (pop-science book) with Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart co-authored the paper “Hopf bifurcation in the presence of symmetry” with Martin A. Golubitsky
Martin A. Golubitsky co-authored “Primitive subalgebras of exceptional Lie algebras” with Bruce L. Rothschild
Bruce L. Rothschild co-authored “Euclidean Ramsey theorems” with Paul Erdős
Source: MathSciNet references for the papers (linked in the database).
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Bacon Number: 2Path (acting collaboration chain, via film/TV credits):Terry Pratchett had a cameo appearance (and is credited with “mucking about”) in the 2008 TV movie The Colour of Magic (adaptation of his Discworld novel)
Sean Astin appeared in The Colour of Magic and also in White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon
Source: IMDb credits for the films.
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Sabbath Number: 3Path (musical collaboration chain):Terry Pratchett collaborated on the 2006 album Wintersmith with the folk-rock band Steeleye Span (Maddy Prior was a key member)
Maddy Prior performed on the Jethro Tull album “Too Old to Rock ’n’ Roll: Too Young to Die!” (1976)
Ian Anderson (founder/leader of Jethro Tull) connects via the 1968 Jethro Tull lineup/era to Tony Iommi (guitarist and co-founder of Black Sabbath)
Source: Album credits and band histories (Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath).
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Discovery credit in the database goes to Daibhid C, with improvements by Phil Ashby.These paths are the canonical ones used by the EBS project (now archived but still the definitive public reference). No shorter verified paths exist in the database.GNU Terry Pratchett — his name still travels the Clacks, and his EBS number of 9 is a lovely little piece of multi-disciplinary nerd immortality. If you want paths for anyone else (or the full methodology behind EBS scoring), just say the word!"
@cunobaros Sabbath Number as in in if you have sung with anyone who has sung with Black Sabbath etc & I think there is an Asimov number if you have had any writings in short story book that has a relevant chain of Authors. In aside #GNUTerryPratchett was one of the super-connected by having an EBS number combined Erdos Bacon Sabbath he probably had an Asimov number as well it was shown on a website once but i think it disappeared by bitrot & i don't if it was backed up on Archive.org Wayback machine as I can't recall the address.
I think I should have an EBS number but never managed to work it out as have problem working out my Erdos number which i think i should get for being quoted on a paper about the 1st solar garage connected to the UK grid but we might both also get one from our #DiscWorld fandom associations as there was someone who IIRC was doing a PHD on modern folklore sources & used #Discworld fans as sources he came to at least one of the @dwcon events & I think some other Discworld events.
She'd even given herself a middle initial - X - which stood for "someone who has a cool and exciting middle name".
Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
"Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]"
Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Today's words of wisdom?
"She just stirred up time a little. It's not as hard as people think. Everyone does it all the time. It's like rubber, is time. You can stretch it to suit yourself." ---- Granny Weatherwax in Wyrd Sisters
@mattdm Terry Prachett's Discworld series comes to mind.
Or any of the books in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmx_YSPcujE
By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
Interesting meeting today at my local Quaker meeting house. I was contemplating mindfullness in response to someones thoughts on being in the present moment, and my struggles doing just that.
My favorite Terry Pratchett quote (and my fedi-header) came to my mind:
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has got there first, and is waiting for it".
Today I saw this quote from a new point of view. Wherever we look ahead, we see war, violence and hatred there. TV's showing bad things in every corner of the world, and a dark future wherever we look.
But instead, we should pull back and focus on where we are now, and look to being in the light, and not think of the darkness ahead.
I think Sir PTerry was maybe even wiser than I already thought, and I already had him rated v highly.
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