Starting a few years ago, I began to notice many strange coincidences popping up in my life. Now, with skepticism strong in my mind, I know better than to draw all sorts of mystical conclusions from the slightest conjoining of themes popping up in the same day-- or even minute-- but still, they are all-out interesting in some cases, so I’ve decided to start logging them.
Some, I’ll admit, are a bit lame, even given the above disclaimer.
1.) I’m posting now from the Central Branch of the county library system, downtown in the burg in which I reside. There are 3 web-accessing terminals on this one long table. I decided to check out the current “Stupidity” thread started by Derleth. At the bottom I noticed the first of two sig link blurbs:
If you don’t stop to analyze the snot spray, you are missing that which is best in life. - Miller
Just as I was reading it (the blurb with a link, not what it links to), the fellow to my left (mid-table), sneezes!
2.) Last March 14th, there was a thread about it being “pi” day. Someone also mentioned that it was Einstein’s birthday.
Another place I sometimes read/post from is Boulder Coffee Co… I don’t know whether it is local or a national franchise. The evening that I read it I went there and one of the first things I noticed was a copy of one of Einstein’s books on the service counter. The guy who belonged to it did not know it was AE’s B’day, so that was not the reason he was carrying it that day.
3.) There has been a list kicking around for years on the web and faxes, so I recognized more than a coupla’ the items. It’s a whimsical list of stress-busting activities that a teacher of one of the classes I take read to us the day before number 2 above. It included the fun-filled idea of driving to work backwards all the way.
Soon afterward the “Odd” section under Refdek.com showed a brief story about an Australian man who was arrested for doing exactly that.
I have some more, which are more interesting, but I’d like to turn it over to the gang first.
True Blue Jack