My uncle told me to always check the clock twice during a thunderstorm

He said if the numbers look wrong or frozen, something weird is about to happen. Last Tuesday in Portland, a storm rolled in and my kitchen clock read 3:17 for a full five minutes while my phone showed 3:22. Right after, my neighbor knocked to return a book I'd lost two years ago. Do you think some advice like this is just coincidence, or are there real patterns to these small glitches?

A project I was working on went totally wrong because of a bad AI model last Thursday.

I was helping a friend set up a simple AI to sort customer emails for his small shop. We used a free model I found online, thinking it would be fine. By Wednesday, it had mixed up over 200 orders, sending shipping confirmations to people who just asked a question. The worst part was it kept learning from its own mistakes, making everything worse each hour. We had to shut the whole thing down and fix everything by hand, which took two full days. It wasn't a fancy system, just a basic text tool called 'SortBot', but it caused real problems. The model was trained on data that didn't match his business at all. Has anyone else had a simple AI project spiral because of a poorly chosen starting model?

My uncle told me to always carry a backup dive light, even on a simple harbor job in Seattle. I finally listened after a silt-out last month.