What to do when you stay home sick

I stayed home today, because I was feeling crampy, but got on the computer to send myself an email to work. When I checked my home email account, I saw this link that my sister sent me to a site called "My Heritage." On the site, there is a face recognition program, where you can upload picutures, and it will tell you what celebrities you look like. I'm sure it's pretty bogus, and just uses basic facial shapes and features, but the more pictures I uploaded, the more I found myself on the edge of my seat, hoping that somebody cool would pop up. I'm such a geek - what can I say?

So, here are the pictures that I used on the site, and below are the results, in order with the pictures, which should be viewed from left to right, top to bottom.


The first shot returned Brett Hull (whoever that is) and a bunch of other guys. Also some Asians.

On the next one where I was smiling, I looked almost exclusively like women (pretty ones, too), but I didn't see the resemblance in most of the cases.

I ran one of Ray, and it said he looked like Hugo Weaving (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean), but it also said he looked like Denzel Washington, Chuck Norris and Gabriel Byrne. Go figure. I would have guessed Yul Brenner or something.

News Flash!!! The next one I ran of me in my Harley jacket said 59% like Michael Landon! That's "Pa Ingalls" to those 'Little House on the Prairie fans'. Whoppee! Also, Annette Benning, James Stewart and Arial Sharon. So far, in the three pics I'd run of me, I hadn't gotten the same person twice.

The next one I ran with my old glasses and when I first got my haircut short, returned Brad Pitt and Richard Gere. Damn, I was one hot looking Dude!

Ran another picture, that is a bit infamous to the old AFS crew, titled "Ouch," and got Jessica Alba, Jake Gyllenhaal, Liem Neeson, and Art Garfunkel (probably due to the hair on that one). At this point, I'm thinking of moving to Beverly - Hills, that is.

Then I ran one I took of Ternisa getting back on the bus in Lexington, after sweating at one of the horse farms. She got Raven Symone, Reese Witherspoon, Isabella Rossellini and Nancy Kerrigan. There were six other women it compared her too - all attractive. Not ONE time did it say she looked like a boy. Bitch.

Next I ran one of my niece, Lauren. She was about 6 months old in the picture, and very cute with her chubby cheeks. Some of her matches came back as Kate Winslet, Donnie Osmond (Lucky!), Gandhi, and Muhhamed Ali.

Finally, I ran one of me at Halloween, 2001, dressed up as my alter ego, "Spike". Who does Spike resemble? How about Regis Philbin for a start. Then there's Rene Russo, Jessica Alba (my first repeat, so it must be true), Estella Warren, and finally, Miss Thing herself...Whitney Houston. Oh, hell to the yes!

For each of the pictures, it gives you about 10 "celebrities" that match with you. I didn't list them all, because I didn't know half of them (although the site brags that it has the faces of the world's 3,200 most famous men and women) . But overall, my commonalities were men, Asians, Hispanics, and Jessica Alba. I guess I'll fare quite well in our continuously evolving melting pot of a society.

So, here's the link to the site. If you find yourself feeling crummy one day, it may cheer you up (or not). http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/face-recognition.php

As for me, I think I'm going back to bed now.