This town is >< small.

[elfs]

A friendly dose of surrealism for your day.

This morning, after a dental visit where I got the bad news ("You're gonna need a crown on 13, and probably 14 too"), I was walking toward the ${DAYJOB}. I stopped at a crosswalk to wait for the light, and next to me stood a man in his mid to late 20's carrying a hardcover copy of Artificial Intelligence for... and I couldn't see the rest.

"What are you reading there?"

He moved his arm and I could read, Artificial Intelligence for Video Game Programmers, a serious textbook, not one of those how-tos you get at Barnes & Noble. "Oh," I said. "Looks hardcore."

He said, "It is."

"Hey, do you know shaterri?"

"Yeah, I know him," he said. "I'll probably see him sometime today."

"Can you give this to him? I've only been carrying it forever." I handed him a Yuletime card I picked up last Christmas season and bounced when I tried to mail it to Shaterri, twice, with "no such person at the address" marked.

"Yeah, that'll be a long trip, from my office to his."

"Thanks."

Comments

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

I love those!

A few weeks ago, I was standing on my desk at work (something I never do) so I could talk to a couple of coworkers over the cubicle walls. I looked at my neighbor's monitor, and saw him peering at a photo of the Oakland skyline. It looked familiar. I looked more closely, and saw the distinctive markings-- police lights on the freeway, a photoshopped-in moon. It was a panoramic shot taken by my neighbor from the roof of my building, and there's a ten-foot print of it hanging in the 2nd floor lobby.

"Hey, why do you have Jim's photo?"

"We're thinking about using it for our CD liner, but we can't find the photographer to get permission."

"His email address is jim@..."

[lynx212.livejournal.com]

WOW I guess the town is indeed VERY small *giggle* well at least you got the card on it's way (sorry to hear about the need for, not one but, two crowns *hugs you in support)

Thanks for the dose of surrealism ...I needed that! ^_^

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I wonder what it says that I've been carrying that card around in my briefcase for the past ten months on the off-chance that I'd run into him on the sidewalk?

[lynx212.livejournal.com]

hmmm....I will have to think on that. It probably speaks volumes but considering it sounds a lot like something I would do the answer eludes me at the moment. *giggle*

[fallenpegasus]

I have "run into him on the sidewalk" in the last 10 months...

[grian-ruadh.livejournal.com]

There really are only 5,000 people in the world. Everyone else is done with random crowd generation software.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Would you like the red pill or the blue pill ? :)

[grian-ruadh.livejournal.com]

Went down the rabbit hole long ago. ;)

[kengr]

I prefer the choice between red & blue lightsabers, thank you very much. :-)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[lionman.livejournal.com]

(Cue Music...)

It's a small world after all...
It's a small world after all...

;-)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's a very small world. Imagine my surprise when a certain friend of mine from out of the country not only knows a very old friend of mine from back West-bigod, but *also* knows who omahas is.... *boggles*

It's gotten to where I'm almost not surprised anymore....

[funos.livejournal.com]

Yep, Ottawa, Ontario is the same.
The joke is that there are only 50 people, the rest is special effects. :)

[fallenpegasus]

Sometimes it's not just a small city, it's a small planet.

There are handful of places in the world were geek supertravellers just kind of naturally end up, concentrating eddies in the flow of people, that sort people the way a swirling pan can sort flakes of gold.

It makes for serindipity on the edge of surrealism.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]