"I feel pretty, oh so pretty..."

[hummingwolf]

Let's ignore for the moment the fact that today was a day full of sneezing, sniffling, coughing, and absolutely nothing productive (aside from the coughing). Let us also ignore the fact that I would be majorly stressing out over a wide variety of issues if I had the energy to do so. Let's think of happy things. Today nalidoll linked to this site, which proved to be the greatest source of amusement I have encountered all week. The site linked to appears to be in the formative stages of being a genealogy resource, but that particular page's function at the moment is to compare a photograph you upload to the pictures in the site's database and then tell you which celebrities (if any) you most resemble.

Now, I never have liked to get my picture taken, so there are not very many digital photos of me at all. But there are a few. When I tried the first few, the site couldn't find any matches at all. I persisted, however, and was well rewarded for my efforts, as the first celebrity list it produced was the following:

Primo Levi
James Callaghan
Peter Jackson
Kim Il Sung
Camilo Jose Cela
Donald Rumsfeld
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Henry Kissinger
Ariel Sharon
Halle Berry

I cackled madly about this, and kept cackling randomly throughout the day.

After analyzing my baby photo (larger version of the picture in the icon), it gave me a more feminine and flattering list, with the top three being Renee Zellweger, Katie Holmes, and Werner Heisenberg (this last one is uncertain). And now when I look in the mirror I can't help thinking that I do look remarkably like a cross between Katie Holmes and Donald Rumsfeld. And here you all thought the KH/Tom Cruise pairing was scary. (For the record: I have never knowingly worked for the benefit of either the Bush Administration or the Church of Scientology.)

Comments

[missprune.livejournal.com]

This is hilarious! How could anyone look like both Halle Berry and Ariel Sharon??

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, it was a really blurry photo. :-)

[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

Your list is....well, different. And interesting. :-)

So sorry about the sneezing, sniffling and coughing. When you don't have much energy to begin with, those just suck any energy you do have right out of you.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

From now on, anytime someone online asks what I look like, I'll tell them to imagine a combination of Katie Holmes and Donald Rumsfeld. It's no stranger than telling them I'm a cross between a wolf and a hummingbird, anyway!

Yeah, the cold/whatever is not being kind to me now. I do hope it disappears quickly; I do not have time for this now.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

that was fun. my ten: Joan Miro (he's a dude, dude), Robert Zemeckis, Olivier Messiaen (?), Frank Zappa (!!), Anthony Hopkins (all righty, then), Ariel Sharon, Robert Altman, Michelle Pfeiffer (this is the only one that's true), GB Shaw, John Ashcroft.

a photo of myself at 13 netted young judy garland, which is also sorta true. and john glenn as a geezer. :D

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what Joan Miro looks like; I just remember his paintings (sorta, vaguely). The resemblance to Anthony Hopkins is very strong, you know. Okay, maybe not as strong as my resemblance to Henry Kissinger. ;-)

[coffeegrace.livejournal.com]

I uploaded that recent picture of me (that I took right after I dyed my hair red) and got only one match. Christina Ricci! I never thought I looked a whole lot like her, but that particular photo, and the photo of her they displayed do look similar. Probably because they're almost the exact same pose and very similar expressions.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

You do look kinda like Christina Ricci in that pic. It's a cute photo, too!

[coffeegrace.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-) It's weird, now the program isn't working for me. :-( I wanted to do a picture of Fadi. I guess I'll try it later.

[stevenglassman.livejournal.com]

It said that I look like Julie Andrews and Katie Holmes.

Anthony Kiedis
Julie Andrews
Monica Lewinsky
Pierce Brosnan
Katie Holmes
Humphrey Bogart

[coffeegrace.livejournal.com]

Ooh Anthony Kiedis is so hot! Go you! :-D

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I can see your resemblance to all those people, if I squint my eyes and shake my head a bit! Okay, maybe not Monica Lewinsky. Your list contains *mostly* cool people, so I'm a bit jealous.

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy with my results that I may post them in my journal, later!!!

I got Bridget Bardot as #1

:)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

You're compared to pretty people! I'm compared to Henry Kissinger. Oh well!

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

The first photo I submitted had a good amount of clarity to it and was a scan of a print taken with a good camera. When I submitted a second, not-so-good quality photo for analysis (I had way too much fun with this thing) I got some of the same results as I did with the first photo but I also got Alec Baldwin!!! LOL!

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

(this last one is uncertain)

Guh! I laughed so hard I couldn't stop, and ended up choking. That was *very* silly indeed, missy.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

And three months later, someone finally laughs at the joke.

(That chimp icon is very cute, btw.)

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

AH-HA! I never got this comment notification!

Yeah, I tend to be amused by physics jokes. The math is *way* beyond me most of the time -- I still don't even know what Selector Calculus *is*, let alone how it works -- but I know enough to appreciate most of the humorous stuff.