Running onto each other like this.

I don't want to run into Tom.

Didn't expect to find any fences around here.

And yes somebody might walk into a door.

Of course, though, that hero must enter the room to find the villain.

Not many of us are liable just to bump into Jack White and get the green light

You can t get to Juchitán unless it is with a person who knows the way, as there are crevices.

So, in Indonesia at this time, if you were carrying a needle and the cops rounded you up, they could put you into jail.

Why can I drive for a mile without finding a coffee shop and then stumble across three on the same corner?

The civilians most likely to encounter land mines are the rural poor who live far from towns or cities and who have access to no proper medical facilities.

In fact, it s hard to not stumble into a stand somewhere serving bubbling ddeokbokki or frying up the small disks of hoddeok, the sweet pancakes ready to be consumed on the spot.

You know, if this is Venus or some other strange planet we're liable to run into highdomed characters with green blood in their veins, who'll blast us with deathray guns.

Second, we could opt to expose our information to a form of digital rusting, so that it slowly erodes (and we would need to take proactive steps should we ever wish to recover some of it). Third, we could separate past information, so that it takes a special effort or additional time to retrieve it, thereby reducing the chances that we accidentally stumble upon it.

Third, we could separate past information, so that it takes a special effort or additional time to retrieve it, thereby reducing the chances that we accidentally stumble upon it.

If you re wandering around, say, Sao Paulo, Brazil, or Athens, Greece, or San Francisco, California you just might stumble upon a weed grown as tall as a building on the building, that is.

And the British people were still upset about losing the Revolution, so they decided to embarrass him a little bit by putting a huge picture of General Washington in the only outhouse, where he'd have to encounter it.

But if what you're looking for is serendipity, if you want to stumble onto something that you didn't know you needed, our main philosophy is to look to our social networks, to look for our friends.

Every Indian who follows the Olympics has cringed scanning the daily list of medal winners, eyes traveling down past dozens of nations big and small before alighting on a solitary Indian bronze in tennis or wrestling. Worse yet, we have all known the shame of waiting day after day for India to appear on the list at all, as countries a hundredth our size record gold upon gold and Indian athletes are barely mentioned among the also rans.

Every Indian who follows the Olympics has cringed scanning the daily list of medal winners, eyes traveling down past dozens of nations big and small before alighting on a solitary Indian bronze in tennis or wrestling.

I had no idea that I might one day come across someone playing a muted trumpet on the streets of my capital city, but this year my new friend let me capture the following performance.

Poe may have also seen similar themes in Honoré de Balzac's Le Grande Bretêche ( Democratic Review , November 1843) or his friend George Lippard's The Quaker City or The Monks of Monk Hall (1845).

One thing that we can get from that graph is that evaluators are more likely to find severe problems and that's good news and so with a relatively small number of people, you're pretty likely to stumble across the most important stuff.