Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Whattakoinkidoink!

The ratio of the observed frequency of double crossings-over to the expected frequency, where the expected frequency is calculated by assuming that the two crossing-over events occur independently of each other.

the same value of the denoted intension in the actual world-time.




Say whut?
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1 Message received.
"Hi ma'am! Di raw pwede si Michelle 2nyt. May hahabulin daw cya n project. Some othr tym na lang rw ds wk."


Options.
Reply.

"Okidoki."


Send.

But I'm already here.

You could use the walk.

Tama.

Down the long strip that runs outside the mall.
A hundred nameless faces per 50 meters. Easy.

And then. There was one. Perpendicular to your path.
You're heading east.
Him south.

Walks right past. Crosses the street.
Completely oblivious.

Call stiffled.
Why bother?
But what were the odds of that happening?
The moment's too rare to pass up.
Call, you idiot.

10 rings.
You're about to hang up, when he picks up.

"Are you at SM?"
"Yah. Where are you."
"I can see you from across the street."
"Hold on, i'm coming over."


End call.

"Wanna grab something to eat?"
"We don't have to."
"But what are the odds of this happening?"
"Guess you're right."
"Coffee then."

A few meters.

"So what brings you here?"
"I got stood up. You?"
"Thought I'd look something up at some store."
"Cool."
"Yeah."
"What were the odds..."
"You already said that."
"oh yeah. sorry."






"It is kinda cool."
"Yeah it is."


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occurs when unexpected parallels can be drawn from two or more events. In the popular sense it is used to describe events (or, more accurately, combinations of two or more events) which are of low probability.

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