I often find that some mystical force overtakes my Montauk-ian experience, and as much effort and as many weeks go into planning dinners, ferry connections, whale watchings, surf lessons, tide charts and sunrise/sunset tables, there's just no planning serendipity.
Increasingly, however, laisser-faire and serendipity are no longer enough.Wherever they started from, all consultancies find that globalisation is fraught with problems.
Close to broke, single and no longer owning cats, serendipity stepped in - or better said, destiny turned on the radio.
Here's one from Ben Grant: "Pleased to meet you, Nathan, but no relation, merely serendipity!" And one from Randy: "I went to Buffalo wild wings to watch the fights and the place was so packed I couldn't even get a seat… Thank you for doing this round by round update you are doing a great job".
What if your only real success was highly dependent on serendipity (no injuries or boycotts) and was decided in fractions of seconds (Bode Miller) or quarter-inches (Dwight Stones)?
As Lori McCay-Peet notes in her essay "Digital Information Environments That Facilitate Serendipity", "It is no longer about whether technologies are helping or hurting serendipity.
Our PM and media should stop lying about the no. of people attending — Serendipity ?
I'm no great believer in serendipity, but sometimes life throws up coincidences that can truly astonish.
You may want to know that information, but finding it depends in no small amount on serendipity and your ability to pay attention to their posts.
"The end of surprise would be the end of science," the historian Robert Friedel wrote in the 2001 essay "Serendipity Is No Accident".
Mr. Cusack, who was co-producer of "High Fidelity" (2000) as well as its star, likes to take an active hand in his films, and "Serendipity" was no exception.
