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August 01, 2005
Coincidence
Only days after I post a picture including a guy I've not seen in years, my mother stops by the public library and finds a new book by his dad. Hmm. This is the third in a clump of improbable pairs, the second being Gilles having two 2 flats on his bike after a relatively short interval, including one where the tire was punctured by some sort of thorn. I cannot recall the first pair.
Posted by Mark at August 1, 2005 04:01 PM
Comments
Did you know that in the backround of the picture you posted, to the far left, is Gulliver's dad, Lucius, playing badmiton?
Posted by: Dana at August 2, 2005 12:14 AM
Aha! No, I didn't see that until you pointed it out.
Posted by: Mark at August 2, 2005 11:56 AM
I had a few more coincidences earlier in finding Dorothy Proffitt, just days after I went to the restaurant where her son in now the chef. Had not seen her in about three or four years. It is always refreshing to have something like that happen.
But, of course, I already feel that humans restrict considerably what they know or can know in order to process the load of information. Therefore, there is a lot going on with connections that we do not realize until something coincidental happens and then it feels good.
Mom
Posted by: Teena at August 2, 2005 04:56 PM
Not sure I follow you, but I don't have a better explanation. Someone wrote:
Generally, people tend to underestimate grossly the probability of any event that happens to them, especially one perceived as "strange."(Source: http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/astop_unlikely_events.htm)
Posted by: Mark at August 2, 2005 05:08 PM