OK, so was it a cute coincidence to see the two main protagonists in ‘Run Fatboy Run‘ walk down Lafone Street tonight?
PS: My quick PC designs for the ‘HP & MTV Global Design Competition. The Computer is Personal Again’:
Category Archives: Coincidences
The value of exploiting coincidence in business
From an interesting Aunt Minnie piece (pdf) on direct marketing to medical imaging professionals: “Challenge yourself and your staff to think about coincidence,” Waldron said. “Don’t underestimate coincidence.” How you do that is something else of course.
Or on a more local level, calling the High St Ken bike shop yesterday with the tube strike on and being told they were getting an order through to meet demand as a result of the stoppage.
PS: First anniversary at MDX today.
PPS: No longer at MDX (07/07/08), but still valuing coincidence.
Anthony Wilson dies from cancer
In memory of Anthony Wilson, here’s my Shaun Ryder anecdote again which I think Tony positively almost would have smiled at.
Standing behind James Bond, a few rows back
Got up to go to lunch, sauntered past the TV in the foyer and saw a guy from Betfair (“more real time transactions than the Stock Exchange”) who I recognised talking about the betting scandal around a Polish tennis match. When I got back to the office I found a
Red Bull, red devils
Went to the Red Bull air race today and saw some Red Devils, the official parachute display team of both The Parachute Regiment and the British Army. Cool!
Down Cleveland Street one day
On Wednesday evening, sipping a pint with Shirley at the George and Dragon when an unshaven Harry Enfield walks by. When he looked like Harry Enfield. Which is funny as I saw his comedy mate Paul Whitehouse just over a year ago. Only Charlie Higson to go to complete the set.
Then Millie walks past and pretends not to see us. Then three guys in cool T-shirts. And a lot of small dogs.
Flooding & predicting
Liked the BBC TV report on the actions of one family caught up in the flooding, who had just sold their house the week before, and their parents who’s house was hit were away on holiday in the Canary Islands. Nice example of the potential power of people to predict the unpredicatble, or were they just lucky? Try it out in your own life, and when you get really ‘lucky’, tell me does that really feel like dumb luck? To quote a Somerset weather saying: “The moon and the weather may change together, but change of the moon does not change the weather.”
Bikes & cars
Spotted this Triumph Tiger in Holborn yesterday, very nice. I believe the same bike (updated of course) that Ted Simon rode around the world on many moons ago – which helped inspire Mike and mine’s motorbike trip back in 1989.
PS: Crossing the road to work today I saw a flatbed truck from ‘Lords Recovery’ carrying a red Ferrari. Then passing on the other side of the road, another red Ferrari going the other way. Neat, especially on 5/6/07 day.
Shahid again
I hadn’t seen Shaid for close to 23 years then saw him again on 6 November. Then I saw him again today and said hi. The coincidences seem to be getting closer (or perhaps not a coincidence?).
Numbers 1
After Simon Singh’s talk recently which highlighted the fact that the number 1 appears relatively more frequently than others I was amused to noticed goign through Durham station that the time was 11:11 on 1st April. Cue laughter. Later it was 12:34 at Newark North Gate. Then I saw a herd of deer of different sizes and shades self-organised in a circle. Funny hey? And only that morning I’d gone down to breakfast and found myself with a gamers role planning international tournament, which gave me chance to ask about the relative advantages against online gaming.