User:Buster7/Happenstances

Syncronicity AKA The Improbability Principle AKA Happenstance

 * Happenstance, a portmanteau of happening and circumstance

Something Happens
There is no causal connection between what happens (in the second place) to what previously happened (in the first place). The only correlation with each seperate incident is the Observer (me). Many times the subject matter is out-dated and has no viable reason to be mentioned in the present. Once newsworthy in its time, it has been years since it exists in the present. Its mention is so remote as to be impossible. And yet it happens!!! Past<--->Present<--->Future

Anomaly Detection
In data analysis, anomaly detection (also referred to as outlier detection and sometimes as novelty detection) is generally understood to be the identification of rare items, events or observations which deviate significantly from the majority of the data and do not conform to a well defined notion of normal behaviour. Such examples may arouse suspicions of being generated by a different mechanism, or appear inconsistent with the remainder of that set of data.

The List

 * 1.-Mention of John Wilkes Booth in a Trump tweet and a story on NPR about John Wilkes Booth later that day.
 * 2.-Mention of a LifeSpring "safe fall" in discussion w/ Gandy (first time in a long time of even remembering the incident) and then the song lyrics "whose gonna catch you when you fall' by The Cars play on the radio on the way to Javy's later that same morning (I rarely listen to 93.1)
 * 3.-Return Rachel Maddow book to the Library and then that very same book title is at the very visible top of the Donations Bin available for me to own as mine.
 * 4.-AUG19 - In the morning I tweet about a guy and 3 women bringing a dog to Boris Johnson at #10 Downing street and joke that they looked like Tony Orlando and Dawn (2 Women) and then Gerry and the Pacemakers (AllMen) then Steve Seattle and the SeaShells. Later that night Gerry and the Pacemakers are mentioned in passing on a late night show (I think Colbert)
 * 5.-SEPT19 - Retweet a video of Jane Goodall releasing an ape and getting a hug. A week later comes a recruiting letter from the Jane Goodall Institute.
 * 6.-Jay Portillo from California and Ricky Portillo's half-sister, Esa, wind up in a Chgo subsurb hospital for two unrelated incidents and meet each other in the Emergency Room Intake at the exact same time. One hears the others name over the speaker. They barely know each other
 * 7.-Darius, the RCN technician, comes to fix the connection to the internet. I pick up a book to read while he works--one that Cathy has suggested, Gone but not Forgotten. Don't know anything about it. Lead character, in the first chapter, is named....wait for it....Darius!
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 * 10.-Amy promotes extending the LoneSome Dove trip/2021 to include the Pacific Coast. That night Eric calls from California and invites Cathy and I to stay, not knowing anything about a family trip to Montana.  12:10, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * 11.-Thanksgiving/2021 at Todd's house. Sarah's dad is discussing maybe moving to Florida's very small Anna Maria Island--- where we vacationed twice when I was a small boy.
 * 12.-September/2022. On the way home from LWW we listen to a PBS interview with Roger Payne, the famed collector of Songs of the Humpback Whales rather than Howard or music. Later that night we start to randomly watch Netflix's Extraordinary Attorney Woo, a South Korean series about an autistic lawyer that uses her fantasizing about Whales as a driving plot directive. Had trouble getting on Netflix. It would have been easier to watch something else...but therein lies the unexplainable happenstance. This may be a foreshadowing of our FEB/2023 trip to see the Grey Whales in Mexico.
 * 13.-January/2023. Tom Hanks is a guest on The Cobert Show. I think of "Wilson" the soccer ball from Castaway. Later that evening is a news story about some rioters somewhere, [[Brazil}}?, and they shove a soccer ball in the image of Wilson at the camera.
 * 14.-April/2023...At LWW. An old Peach crossword puzzle from the mailbox has a clue, "The _____ Donahue Show" but I cannot get the answer because I have misspelled "Niece" as the down clue. Frustrated with my inability to get an easy name I ask Cathy and she confirms its PHIL and I see my mistake. Later that day, on the way home, we listen to Howard's interview with Brooke Shields and she talks about an interview by....Phil Donahue.
 * 15. -Mid April/2023... Jim Kaspari from work has been providing extensive elder care for a sick Mr Rick. Tuesday, 12;30, I usually go to TS when Jim comes in but Jim, Al and I go to set up the Auditorium for a 2PM event during which Jim relays the weekends and Mondays care for Rick and shows us an "end-of=life" video he recorded at Riks request. I get upstairs about 1:15 and start the OUTS. The very first book I touch, May I Walk You Home? (Courage and comfort for the caregivers of the dying), is about gleanings for the caregivers to the dying. I pass it on to Jim.
 * 16. -July 12/2023... Amy and Eddie and GMA and I start to plan a 4-day get-together weekend at LWW to celebrate my and Matts BDay and Lukes approaching BDay. We will most likely need to pitch a tent to provide enough sleeping situations. Lo and behold... the Guy across the alley (on Touhy) from John's is moving and getting rid of stuff. What does he put out for someone, anyone, to have? Two almost new Field and Stream sleeping bags. 5 minutes later they would be gone!!!! Also a very nice suit of clothes that I wear to Timmy's wedding on New Years Eve. The Universe Supports Us!!!!!!!
 * 17. - Matt and the dear deer. W/ video proof. What caused me to turn 'with the Video ready????'
 * 18. -Dec 2023 at the library. I wanna take some papers to work so I grab a used Manila folder among a few dozen available. It happens to be an old AT&T one. When I get to the library what do I see in my usual parking space? An AT&T work truck. I show the driver the folder and see him again at the front door. Of all the folders why that one..... of all the space's why that one! Buster7 (talk) 13:48, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

David John Hand



 * British statistician
 * research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, computational statistics and the foundations of statistics
 * written technical books on statistics, data mining, finance, classification methods, measuring wellbeing, as well as science popularization books