I've been toying around with this face recognition program that's supposed to determine your celebrity look-alike.* Here's what it came up with for me, in order from my most clean-cut to my most grizzly:
-------> 
Gary Oldman
-------> 
Tom Stoppard
-------> 
Jane Goodall
-------> 
Edsger Dijkstra
Curiously, I plugged in a few pictures of Mrs. T... 
.... The computer was pretty adamant, telling me three times she looked like...
Shannen Doherty. But once she came out as...
Isabelle Adjani. Based on these results, you'd think I had won at Beauty and the Geek.
Then I figured I'd try one from my younger years....
-------> 
Yasser Arafat
Hmmmmmm......
*As seen on McPan's blog
That's brilliant! I think there's got to be some leg-pulling at work with the Jane Goodall, but I agree that Mrs. T's assesments are spot on. At one time I had drawn comparisons with a young Helen Hunt (remember her After School special?) but shudder to think what said program would generate now...
Posted by: Scorpiosphinx | January 07, 2006 at 11:40 AM
Scorpio,
Do you play tennis? Just ran a couple of your pictures. The first came out Jennifer Capriati, the second Anna Kournivova.
Posted by: Rowdy Theologian | January 07, 2006 at 03:31 PM
"Yessir, yessir, three bags full Arafat??? Well, maybe...lol. So Rowdy, I knew you did good with Mrs. T, but Shannen and Isabelle...wow! Beauty and the geek has nothing on this match! HAHA Ok JUST JOKING....I think! LOL Anyway Mr. Beady, I am almost finished with Cosmos, (no, I am not so busy that it takes me an entire year to watch Cosmos,) however, I am that busy! By the way, I look like Alyson Hannigan. Love the BLOG!! Jason
Posted by: Jason Parrish | January 11, 2006 at 02:32 PM