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I'm Italian, born and raise there. I moved here in Florida 5 years ago. My ex-girlfriend is American, born and raise here. One day I met her best friend from co

I'm Italian, born and raise there. I moved here in Florida 5 years ago. My ex-girlfriend is American, born and raise here. One day I met her best friend from college (he lives here in Florida as well), and he told me that his father was Italian. When he told me his lastname, I told him that I know people with the same last name from my grandfather's hometown, so I asked him to ask his father where he is from. We ended up finding out that he was from the same place and that he was friend with the only family member (a very far one, my grandfather's cousin) I have here in the States, in Connecticut.

davidw 16y ago
Along those lines: * I bumped into a girl that I went to South Eugene High School with at the train station here in Padova, Italy. We were even on the same train. I was quite literally speechless for a moment or two. * I worked with a person in San Francisco whose dad had known my dad and uncle in the same small town in Montana.
- etherael 16y ago
  I accidentally alt tabbed to a tail of a kernel log where a packet hit the wire at the exact moment that I accidentally alt tabbed. The IP address looked weird to me for some reason so I reverse resolved it and traced it, it belonged to the first ISP I'd ever used, I ran an nmblookup on the machine name and it was my first girlfriend's computer name. Utterly freaked out I contacted her via IM, not having actually known how to do that and not having spoken to her for a very long time and verified that it was indeed her ip address and she was indeed at that computer, but she had absolutely no idea how I had managed to ascertain that fact and was about as freaked out as I was by the episode. We talked for many hours before it finally dawned on me exactly what had happened. On the exact day that I had been checking firewall rules on my laptop with kernel packet logging enabled, at the exact second that I had accidentally alt tabbed to a terminal window that was tailing said packet log, she had done a search on napster for a song that I happened to have. This is very much the weirdest coincidence I've ever experienced in my life thus far.
  - rationalbeaver 16y ago
    That is also, quite possibly, the nerdiest coincidence in the history of mankind. My hat is off to you, sir.

davidw 16y ago

Along those lines: * I bumped into a girl that I went to South Eugene High School with at the train station here in Padova, Italy. We were even on the same train. I was quite literally speechless for a moment or two. * I worked with a person in San Francisco whose dad had known my dad and uncle in the same small town in Montana.

etherael 16y ago
I accidentally alt tabbed to a tail of a kernel log where a packet hit the wire at the exact moment that I accidentally alt tabbed. The IP address looked weird to me for some reason so I reverse resolved it and traced it, it belonged to the first ISP I'd ever used, I ran an nmblookup on the machine name and it was my first girlfriend's computer name. Utterly freaked out I contacted her via IM, not having actually known how to do that and not having spoken to her for a very long time and verified that it was indeed her ip address and she was indeed at that computer, but she had absolutely no idea how I had managed to ascertain that fact and was about as freaked out as I was by the episode. We talked for many hours before it finally dawned on me exactly what had happened. On the exact day that I had been checking firewall rules on my laptop with kernel packet logging enabled, at the exact second that I had accidentally alt tabbed to a terminal window that was tailing said packet log, she had done a search on napster for a song that I happened to have. This is very much the weirdest coincidence I've ever experienced in my life thus far.
- rationalbeaver 16y ago
  That is also, quite possibly, the nerdiest coincidence in the history of mankind. My hat is off to you, sir.