so it turns out, after some googling, that I have an erdos number of 4 (erdos - hoffman - karp - etzioni - me). but having never been in a movie, I don't have a finite bacon number or, therefore, a finite erdos-bacon number. much to my admiration, however, both natalie portman and danica mckellar (along with a handful of nerdy scientists and bertrand russell) have finite erdos-bacon numbers. that's something you can admire.