Miscellaneous Do you experience synchronicity in your life?

[Woodpad]

The next story is only possible with landline telephones.

When I took up the horn to call someone I was diectly connected to a friend who called me. As I took up the phone at the exact moment he dialed the phone didn't ring once, We where both suprised.

 

[Woodpad]

Indeed. I blame the gaussian distribution.

Why blame the Bell curve if it is statistically sufficient to blame Poisson.

 

[Targa]

Why blame the Bell curve if it is statistically sufficient to blame Poisson.

Fish?

 

[Ghr9204]

Speaking of synchronicity, in mid 1980's, I worked in the planning dept. of a navel shipyard (my asynchronous spelling )

My desk / drafting table telephone extension was x7012, the same as the serial number on my Yamaha YAS-61 pro alto that was stolen in 1999.

The Antigua Winds pro model alto I bought used some 11 years ago for a little over $400 US (serial# dates it to perhaps late 1970 - 1980's), plays like my Yamaha, even contains the same tuning quirk.

(The couple I bought from, wife used it for her college sax studies, now selling to make ends meet, glad it was going to a good home. 😀 )

If I pop the neck joint to body gap 1 to 2 mm, it plays in tune throughout the range. A part of synchronicity, it makes up for the loss. 😉

 

[Woodpad]

Fish?

No fish, statistics.

 

[Targa]

No fish, statistics.

One man's math is another man's poisson.

 

[Pete Effamy]

One man's math is another man's poisson.

Very good.👍

 

[cappers]

Fish?

No fish, statistics.

One man's math is another man's poisson.

Why blame the Bell curve if it is statistically sufficient to blame Poisson.

Years ago I was in a meeting of an EU funded water quality research programme; there was a new young translator present.
When we came to the discussion of the statistical analysis of the data from the project the interpreter translated 'Poisson Distribution' as 'fish distribution'. Nobody said anything as we understood but it did raise a smile or two.

 

[PiccoloPirate]

As the NCOIC of the USAF burial team, long ago, we just completed the funeral for an older Officer, that died from Emphysema.
As soon as we hit the barracks, for a shot of whiskey, this was on the TV.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA-gxg3Ztps

 

[Woodpad]

Years ago I was in a meeting of an EU funded water quality research programme; there was a new young translator present.
When we came to the discussion of the statistical analysis of the data from the project the interpreter translated 'Poisson Distribution' as 'fish distribution'. Nobody said anything as we understood but it did raise a smile or two.

Translating in technical meetings is a difficult job. Differences in pronounciation can put people on the wrong foot.
In Dutch the names for oboe and bassoon are hobo and fagot. Its always a suprise.

 

[Ghr9204]

As the NCOIC of the USAF burial team, long ago, we just completed the funeral for an older Officer, that died from Emphysema. As soon as we hit the barracks, for a shot of whiskey, this was on the TV.

Wasn't it Tarrytown (can't remember the spelling being a little 'obstenant' ) cigarettes that had the asbestos filters, so that one died not only of emphysema but also mesothelioma?

 

[PiccoloPirate]

 

[Ghr9204]

Early 1970's, the NCOIC's of my 264th AB, Fort Shafter, Honolulu fenagled HQ Public Affairs to book us a concert gig at the Primo Brewery in Pearl City.

Dressed in our Class B khaki uniforms, we set up in their tourist pavilion in the courtyard, then played a couple numbers for their employees. (There were no tourists, It was mid morning, maybe 9:00 or 10:00 a.m.)

After, it was free Primo beer for all. (Primo then was a light beer like Bud Lite. The Army didn't have an abstinence programme like now.)