{"id":395,"date":"2012-01-13T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2012-02-05T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T19:44:22","slug":"serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences<\/p>\n<p>1. EMMEDIA gave me my copy of the Grain publication in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayburns.ca\/Home.html\">Kay Burns <\/a> has and article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sansfacon.co.uk\/\">Sans Facon&#8217;s <\/a>Limelight, which is actually here in Calgary for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hprodeo.ca\/2012\">HPR<\/a>. I probably would not have heard of it if I hadn&#8217;t read the article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/limelight_YYC.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-397\" title=\"limelight_YYC\" src=\"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/limelight_YYC-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. At Laurie Anderson&#8217;s performance I ran into a couple of friends. After <em>Another Day in America<\/em> was over we went for a little jaunt to Olympic Plaza and had a bit of fun in <a href=\"http:\/\/limelightontour.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/show-is-on.html\">Limelight <\/a>doing some jazz hands, some power slides on our knees and with no grace at all, I did a swan pose while my companions helped turn me in a circle. The coincidence did not go as far as me having my skates magically in my handbag.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, after we&#8217;d had our fun another threesome came along and blast in the spot light. Hopefully they had a lot of people stop by.\u00c2\u00a0I also\u00c2\u00a0hope the photos get posted somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>3. While surfing around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjamatics.com\/2011-categories-and-nominees\/\">Ninjamatics 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards <\/a>I clicked on Punam Gill&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punamarts.com\/blog\/\">weblog<\/a> because I recognized her name from her movie <em>Young Masters<\/em>. On her site she\u00c2\u00a0talked about helping with the video linked below.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m not sure why I clicked or why I kept watching\u00c2\u00a0but I almost came off my chair in surprise when I\u00c2\u00a0recognized Martin and\u00c2\u00a0those gloves!\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebabycliff.com\/characters\/martin\">Martin <\/a>was played by Adam a co-worker and I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve seen gloves like that for the scanner cleaning.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2KXFqcJbxao?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2KXFqcJbxao?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nWhat is three coincidences in short order called? A hat trick? A Turkey? Ellipsis? Orion&#8217;s belt? I asked Google and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20080317011358AAcSQll\">here<\/a> is a list of things that are known for being in three. And all of this on Friday the 13th.<\/p>\n<p>Phew, that felt like a lot of linking and name dropping, but that is how coincidence works.<\/p>\n<p>When did this happen? The week of January 9-16, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences 1. EMMEDIA gave me my copy of the Grain publication in which Kay Burns has and article about Sans Facon&#8217;s Limelight, which is actually here in Calgary for the HPR. I probably would not have heard of it if I hadn&#8217;t read the article. 2. 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