Hey, the Musée de la Civilisation
(Quebec City) can pair a person's face with its ancient twin. To do
this, a headshot is run through facial recognition software. After analyzing
over a hundred landmark points, the software finds the ancient sculpture most closely
matched with the modern person’s face.
So I uploaded a photo. “What time-honored Adonis will be my doppelgänger?” I wondered.
doppelgänger: an apparition or double of a living person. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from German, literally ‘double-goer.’Perhaps you’ve had the curious experience of seeing your own doppelgänger. Like me, you no doubt found it to be a creepy yet fascinating experience. It’s your mirror image, but slightly twisted in a dark way that exaggerates your worst features and character traits.
All this came to mind when I got a spam e-mail featuring this proto-human. He is, sadly, my doppelgänger. We both work at home, and like me, this prat’s office is at the beach. Hey, a little sand in the fax machine is a small price to pay for good living. (No, I am not stretching for a metaphor there.)
There are other similarities, but I can’t bring myself to list them. This man is so bogus, he’s in a bogosity-zone. And that b-zone served as a painful reminder of thisTV ad, one that, until now, I’ve successfully repressed for years. You’ll spot my doppelgänger easily enough; he’s my spitting image… and I spit on him.
But for an evil-shadow-twin, he does play the guitar pretty well!
