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Coincidence

1/4 Yesterday morning, I was thinking about persons I’ve known who I have not seen or heard from for 40+ years. I searched for some of them on the internet. Google AI mis-informed me that a few of them had undergone major career changes: One had gone from a degree and career in forestry into medical school and become a physician; another had become a freelance journalist in South Africa after I knew him as a forester and firefighter. But, in reality, neither of those career changes was true. Google AI had seamlessly combined the search results for different persons who just coincidentally shared the same names. Google AI also claimed that I worked professionally in Tokyo, though I have no recollection of ever being in Japan.

#Coincidence #Serendipity #Biography #Memoir #PeaceCorps

A quotation from Doyle

   “You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
   “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”
   “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-08), “The Red-Headed League,” The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

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How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment. In 2004, Ireland

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/20/how-are-you-2/
#2004 #Candid #coincidence #Cork #Ireland #PatrickStreet #PhoneCall #Photo #Photography #serendipity #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment.

In 2004, Ireland was in the midst of a mobile phone boom. The average Irish person was sending lots of text messages per month. The phones of the era were mostly Nokia models and early flip phones. The iPhone wouldn’t arrive for another three years. Making an actual voice call, as this woman is doing, was still the primary use of a mobile phone, rather than the app-launching, social-media-scrolling pocket computers we carry today.

undercovermodel quite #uncovered by fur, be like a #birthmark or tattoo

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/83527768083497645/

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I like it when two unrelated entries in a timeline or stream appear to do have some kind of connexion / are reacting to each other. ;)

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