Celeb. Facial Recognition

Check out what celebrity you most resemble using facial recognition software! MyHeritage.com will scan a picture of your face and compare it to their database of celebrities. Depending on how you look in your picture - it could be really flattering, or really hideous! [By celebrities I mean everyone from Demi Moore to Eleanor Roosevelt...yipes] Oh, and it will also tell you what percentage similarity your face has with a matching celebrity.

This is the best and most entertaining waste of time that i've come across in a long time. Give it a try!

Oh, and in case you were wondering - my celebrity match is Elisha Cuthbert who played the underage girl (and bosses daughter) in Old School.

Women on Wheels...

As Rock Creek Rambler points out, there's a Monster Truck Rally at the MCI center this weekend. Looks like DC is going to be taken over by some serious horsepower in the next few days. I also just discovered that the 25th Annual Cycleworld International Motorcycle Show will be at the Washington Convention Center starting tomorrow.

Anyone care to meet me at the Women on Wheels booth? Sadly, Paul Teutel and the boys from American Chopper wont be there.

The Cosby Sweater Theory

While searching for information to back up my claims that Alito's confirmation is actually a well dressed and executed Comedy Central Roast - I came across an interesting blog that i'd like to share. http://blogs.philly.com/blinq/

One post is of particular interest- A conspiracy theory about the abrupt demise of the "Cosby Sweater" :

"Bill stops wearing the sweaters on the show, but nothing, i mean nothing, can stop the steamroller that is The cosby sweater. So Hilfiger funded The simpsons, which killed The Cosby Show's ratings. Hilfiger tells Cosby "Don't wear those sweaters in public, or you'll end up like Thelma and Louise. Dead, on the bottom of a cliff." Bill stops wearing the sweaters in public and without the core support, the popularity of the cosby sweater slowly dies away."

Alito's Roast

I'm usually able to tune out the TV that buzzes behind my head at the office. Of course, it's always set to the news - so i've been hearing the droning sounds of US Senators as the Alito confirmation hearings proceed.

There's been a lot of talk about my home state (NJ), as well as my home town (Princeton) as Alito defends his career decisions. I've only been catching bits and pieces of the hearings (hey, i've got work to do), but what I have seen (and heard) has surprised me.

Take for example the Senator who opened his line of questioning with lyrics to a Bruce Springsteen song, or another who launched into a diatribe about Princeton University and how he disliked the institution....for these reasons, and many others it seems to me that these hearings are more reminiscent of a Comedy Central Roast than a process to appoint a lifetime seat to a qualified candidate for the Supreme Court!

Braves on the Warpath! Fight for 'ole DC!

Unless you live under a rock in the DC Metro area; you know that the Redskins pulled out a win over Tampa Bay this past weekend. The Redskins are the only professional football team that i've ever seen up close in action - and I really enjoyed it.

I'm a little torn because i've only started watching football over the last two seasons - gasp! I grew up watching hockey (the NJ Devils of course) and football never really appealed to me. I defaulted to rooting for the Eagles last season just because i'm a Phillies fan, and I figured that i'd stick with Philadelphia teams, but now that i've lived in DC for 5 years...i'm thinking maybe it's time to establish some loyalty to this city. I guess that's a little hypocritical...but, so be it. I mean, I honestly did get a little sentimental when they played "Hail to the Redskins" at the bar on Saturday night...or maybe I was a little too tipsy..well, either way...GO SKINS.

When the Ban Hits, Chrissy Quits

If you live in the DC area, you've no doubt heard about the (veto proof) smoking ban that was passed by the DC Council yesterday. You may have even participated in heated debates with your friends or patrons of you favorite bar on this very issue. Whichever side you're on, you're going to have to suck it up and stamp it out in January of 2007.

I'm a smoker. It started off in highschool and continued into college, where it quickly became an addiction. Both my parents are smokers and I think when I moved away to college I went into some 2nd hand smoke withdrawal which is why my habit really took off once I was out on my own. I enjoy smoking - not because I like the smell, or the scratchy throat as a result of smoking too much during a night out, but because i'm totally addicted and smoking makes me feel calmer. When the shit hits the fan in my life, or at work - I can always reach for the pack. It's like a (somewhat) socially acceptable comfort object that I can always turn too. And i've always said "hey, at least it's not crack."

Old habits die hard, but as the research shows, if I don't clean up my act the only thing dying is going to be me. I hate not being able to run as fast as I used to and all of the other benefits of clean lungs. That's why my new mantra is "when the ban hits, Chrissy quits."

I hesitate to make a big deal out of this because i've tried to quit before, and when I enlist the help or support of others; they're always so damn miffed when I start smoking again. But here it is - i'd honestly like to quit before i'm forced to go into severe withdrawal at a concert venue or bar next January.

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Alison and Matt gettin' metaphysical in the dorms...watch out Miss Cleo!








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I don't really remember the original Dionne Warwick Psychic Friends Network, but I do remember Miss Cleo and her low budget commercials on late night TV. You know, the ones where there was mystical smoke coming from under a table (probably courtesy of a cigarette left burning) and she urged callers to call her 900 number. Oh yeah, and how she got nabbed for being a fraud (the woman wasn't even Jamaican)!

I always wondered how they recruiting people for this sort of thing. I just figured it involved cold calling and door to door recruitment - like the jehovah's witnesses. Silly me.