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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 [...]

Posted 04 September 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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.

Posted 11 August 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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

Posted 04 August 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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!

Posted 29 July 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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 [...]

Posted 14 July 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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 [...]

Posted 30 June 2007 † Stuart § Brain teasers § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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’ [...]

Posted 05 June 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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?).

Posted 15 April 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

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 [...]

Posted 01 April 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Being Lucky

Very much enjoyed the IET Kelvin Lecture from journalist Simon Singh (in the paper today for daring to disagree with a Channel 4 producer’s approach to climate change). It was the words of the guy giving the thank you address which struck a note too. He said that on interviewing candidates for IBM internships he [...]

Posted 15 March 2007 † Stuart § Complexity § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °