For example, a seemingly random conversation I once had with a museum curator slowly and freely evolved into a TV offer.
Before Macs, I had some random x86 machine that I only used for games and connecting to the Prodigy network.
Since then, I've at least found a way to defeat two random strangers whom I've played against, and this has temporarily restored my limited sense of self-worth.
That wasn't just some random number that I plucked out of a hat.
Thank God for Geektown999 at a random online user forum I found who solved my problem.
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But what happens when the consequences are random or contradictory, i.e. when the same behavior sometimes is rewarded and sometimes is punished?
It was totally random and was complete serendipity that I ended up meeting him when I was 15.
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That same night, police squad cars searched for and tracked down three random suspects that matched the descriptions I gave.
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"The idea for the show came from the charged interactions I was having with random people on Twitter, " she says.
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At the time I felt I could trust Google more than I could trust some random startup or app with my data.
Why do I habitually pop into random liquor stores to see if, on the off chance, they have my favorite rare bottle collecting dust somewhere?
For a little fun, I used Listorious and my own list of those I follow to build a random selection of influential PR tweeps.
It was kind of a random occurrence me getting in, but I'm glad I went through the qualifier and grateful I got hot at the right time and I get an experience like this as a reward.
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The electrician I hired, after calling a random name in the phonebook forgot to put the battery in the smoke detector.
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Finally at 27 after getting increasingly random bouts of minor but inconvenient allergic reactions I managed to see a specialist at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.
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Things that are so random and quirky that as a writer, I know how hard that stuff is to invent, and it really had the ring of truth to it.
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Back in the 2004 Presidential election The Guardian had the bright idea of calling on prominent British lefties to write to individual (and picked at random) voters in that county in, I think it was, Ohio.
Sometimes, when I had been drinking (most nights) I started sending her long emails with random thoughts, continuing our conversations.
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And I also figured that this being school holidays, I might end up with some other random kid next to me!
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Rather than dismiss the voice and deal with the problem at hand, I found myself projecting it outward onto random strangers.
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In late December of 2011, while browsing the Internet, I came across an article about a random reporter who obtained the email address of a famous billionaire by conducting a simple Google search.
In my 10 minutes of playing, I was able to participate in several random free gift opportunities mostly sent to other Farmville Facebook friends in the hopes they would give me some random gift back.
If you were to survey a random group of men about their greatest health concerns, I doubt the length of their sperm cells would even make the list.
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"The photo booth is always a draw, stuffing as many random people in a tight space as possible -- I think the record is seven -- and taking goofy group shots, " said Austin.
People think, "I just purchased a gift instead of buying three random things and packaging them together, " he says.
If I gave you a choice of Barack Obama or a random person snatched off the street of lower Manhattan, who would you choose to make these investment choices?
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That idea alone was mind blowing, that random people from random parts of the world might end up watching a skit that I just made and uploaded from home.
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I'm talking about new initiatives like biological passports, random tests, research into new substances and so on.
So I went back and tried the campaign for the 3rd time with random online marines.
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