Celebrity "Look-Alike"

I've seen a few of these now and I can't help but be very critical of it. I think a more accurate description of this is that it finds similar expressions you have with celebrities. I figure this because every picture I had tried is of me, but I get different celebrities every time. So when it said I looked Sydney Poitier and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, that was the last straw. So I'll debut the one that vents my frustration.



Looking at all my results (the complete list is not shown here), I would say I have the closest resemblance to people who have been dead for a 100 years. I must have got like 5 or 6 of those. After that, the best I can do is a 64% resemblance to people I've never heard of. The term "celebrity" is used very loosely here, I think. Alot of people think I look like Jim Carrey, mainly cuz all us tall, lanky, white guys look alike. Well, he only came up as a match with me once, and I couldn't repeat it, even with the same picture.

I tried one more experiment and that was to use a celebrity's picture and see if it could match it to the same celebrity. The subject of my test was Harrison Ford. He got a 90% match to himself. I guess this thing isn't a total waste.

Some Random Thoughts

Here are 3 random thoughts for you to chew on. Your point of view on any of these topics is encouraged. I only put 3 cuz it was getting long and I currently can't remember the rest.

1. Is the handicap stall in the bathroom strictly for handicapped people? Or can anyone use it if that's the only one available? Most public bathrooms aren't that big, but every one must have a handicapped accessable stall. I don't have a problem with that. But many public bathrooms (like the ones at my work) have two regular stalls and one handicapped stall. But it's doubtful that 33% of the workforce at my company are handicapped. Yet it also seems unfair that a handicapped person has to wait for a specific stall while other people can easily choose any other. I also find that my conscience is less bothered with using the handicapped urinal. Hmm, maybe this is too much information...

2. I don't get personalized license plates. Many times I see them and I don't even know what they mean because they are related to some inside joke like "WE 54". What on earth does that mean? Other times they describe the owner as they feel they should be described but may not necessarily be true like "RASCAL" or "SLY ONE" or "HOT MAMA" or something. Yeah, you'd like to think that wouldn't you? One time I saw one that said "SEE YA" as if it were to convince me they were a fast driver or something. Yeah, so fast I'm stuck behind them for 10 minutes as I'm waiting for an opportunity to pass them. Maybe "SEE YA" means what is said as they are being passed. The fact that it costs like $50/yr to have this makes this even more absurd. A couple weeks ago, I saw quite possibly the first worthy personalized plate...YUBH8N4 (Why you be hatin' for?), haha! Perhaps that was targeted towards people like me who don't understand personalized plates. Admonishment from a license plate, haha.

3. Being engaged for the past 7 months or so, I've noticed a few things about being engaged, but today I just want to talk about the term "fiance/fiancee". I have a few beefs with this term. First, it's a French word. Why is there not an English word for this term? I feel all snobby when I say "Have you met my fiancee?" It's like saying "bon appetit" every time you eat. That's just silly. Another thing is this term often gives you more information about yourself to a stranger than you would care to give. For example, you waiting for your fiancee at a store let's say. Someone comes up to you and asks if you've been helped. You reply with, "no, I'm just waiting for my fiancee". So now you've just told this random person you're getting married soon. It's like too much information for such a simple question. But you can't say, "I'm waiting for someone/my girlfriend" because that would demean the position of a fiancee. Last of all, fiancee has an accent mark above one of the e's which is a real pain to put into type and I don't really have the patience to look for it, haha. One last thing is the spelling. I've seen it with one or two e's. I figured it meant one was for the male and the other for the female although I've seen both spellings for the female. An 8 month engagement was not long enough to get to the bottom of this. I'm looking forward to using the term "wife".

Whoa...

Yeah, I know that's what you said when you saw this. It looks really different and probably to most of you, it looks alot better (especially for my mom, haha). I finally switched to the new beta Blogger and I am happy with the changes to the admin side of this thing. It's alot easier to modify my blog now. Not sure I'm going to keep this look, but until I fix it, this is what it will be. For a beta with so many changes, I'm still disappointed in the lack of creativity in the template options.

Have You Seen My Phone?

I lost my phone today. It was only a couple years ago that I wondered why people even needed cell phones. Now I feel so lost without it. How will people get in contact with me at any random time anywhere? So this is how I lost it. I was driving up to my future new place since the future in-laws were all coming over to check out the new place. It was raining cats and dogs which was kind of unusual. Since our guests were using my parking space, I had to find one on the street. I made a quick call to J to let her know that I'm there, but I'm waiting for a lull in the downpour since I didn't bring my umbrella. (Who would have thought, right?) So as I was on the phone, the rain lulled a bit and abruptly ended my call and bolted for the apartment (which was 2 blocks away). There I discovered that all the streets were flooded so I had to take these bounding leaps from the sidewalk to the middle of the street to avoid the rushing river that used to be called a street.

My future brother-in-law met me near the end with an umbrella. We went inside briefly and then left for dinner. That's when I noticed that I didn't have my phone. I figured it was in the car. Later after the guests left, I went to go move my car to the garage and it wasn't in the car. Too bad I leave my phone on vibrate all the time (I'm really annoyed by cell phone ring tones. If it's in your pocket, why you need to hear it ring anyway? Ok that's just me maybe.) The vibrate is pretty loud so I should have heard it by calling it in the apartment or the car. Not in either place. That means I lost it on the run in between. So we looked in the dark for a bit and called and listened for a vibration sound but no luck. When I call it, my phone rings 5 times before the voice mail picks up which means that my phone is still on and working wherever it is. I'll take one more look in the daylight tomorrow, but I think it's gone for good. I must have lost it on one of those bounding leaps. I had 150 contacts in my phone. I had to do some housekeeping there anyway, but I didn't really want to start from scratch.

I didn't like my phone that much anyway. It was a Samsung and I've pretty much determined that the developers at Samsung are retarded for many reasons. The main one being they took the LCD display off the outside of the flip phone so you have to flip it open to see who is calling. It's especially dumb since the previous Samsung phone I had did have this feature. Also silent mode is not silent. Sure if it rings it is silent, but it still plays an annoying beep if someone leaves a voice mail. Hello! Silent means no noise!

3 Weeks To Go

It's hard to believe I only have 3 weeks of the single life left. It doesn't feel like it was that long ago I proposed to J. I wrote "November come quickly" at the top of this blog back then and it sure did. It's also hard to believe that we have two more weddings to go to before ours. Both of these couples got engaged after us and will be married before us. Crazy. I think 8 months is a good pace though. It hasn't been that stressful and even if the next couple weeks are really stressful, it's still worth it to do the 8 months. It also helps to have a fiancee that has it all together when it comes to planning.