Specifically: Where’s my Bacon number?

I was catching up on the latest coder porn, i. e. the excellent tech write-up for Bacon of Hope by platon42 and gigabates. What a treat! I haven’t even finished it yet, but it already gave me two ideas:

• Oooh, so that’s how you draw fancy anti-aliased lines on the Amiga!
• Mmmmh, bacon… wait, don’t I have a Bacon number?

I remember looking it up decades ago (well, one decade at least), but the Oracle of Bacon doesn’t find it anymore. Last time I checked, I thought I had one, by means of:

• My IMDb entry for Die PARTEI (playing myself) *
• Helge Schneider starring in it, too
• Some early other film where Helge Schneider co-starred with a later German Hollywood star
• Some big-ass Hollywood movie with that actor and Kevin Bacon himself

I had a good laugh when I found out why I couldn’t find myself anymore. (Hmm, is that “ego-baconing”, like ego-googling?) The “Die PARTEI” movie is categorized as a documentary now! Hehehe. Well, where do you want to draw the line? With documentaries re-enabled, I got my number:

There’s even more than one path: The one I remembered was with Helge Schneider and Udo Kier in Mutters Maske, and then Armageddon and Apollo 13, giving me a number of 4. Former German chancellor Angela Merkel and former US president George W. Bush link me to the Bacon in three steps only, but that’s a lame documentary-only path. :)

Well, enough with the bacon vanity. More Amiga coding!

*)

PARTEI, what is that? Well, it’s a long story! Hmm, I guess that’s bacon-induced idea number three: Document my past as a politician a bit…