Thursday, May 04, 2006

FACE RECOGNITION

If Homeland Security uses the My Heritage face recognition program for known or suspected terrorists, we are in a heapin' mess o'trouble. Using 4 or so digital or scanned pictures of myself, I was ALLLLLLLL over the board w/whom I may resemble. Or who may resemble me.
  • Let's run it down, shall we?

  • Ricky Ponting was the winner (or would that be loser?)- coming up in 3 of the pics. (I Goooooogled him, apparently he is a cricket player)
  • Val Kilmer came in twice
  • Matthew Fox once (I'll take that)
  • Howard Dean once (there are worse things)
Then it gets disturbing. Yes, more disturbing than Val !!!

  • Uday Hussein !!
  • Sadamn Hussein !!!!!!
  • Khalil Gilbran
  • Ritchie Valens (now I'm hispanic?)
  • Penelope Cruz (now I'm hispanic and a woman??? swear to g-d. either I'm more feminine than I care to believe, or she's a dude!) ......then it goes
  • Yao Ming and a slew of other asian men I don't recognize (note to self: stop squinting in pictures)

In one pic I put in was Morty and me. I'll give the software this - it picked up the two separate people. Trust me - Morty fared much better!

  • George Clooney
  • Billy Zane
  • Matt Dillon
  • Brad Pitt
  • Andre Agassi

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, of course I look exactly like those 5 guys. And you would make a fetching Penelope Cruz given the right drag queen's closet. And good lighting.

Blobby said...

Note (as Becky had mentioned) that somehow David Cassidy was omitted from your list. How is that so?

No drag. No way would I NAD's my legs. ...and no, that isn't my only rationale for not doing it.