How else can I maintain my reputation as a Miracle Worker?

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I am Scotty

Not that this should come as any surprise to anybody...

Your results:
You are Mr. Scott

Mr. Scott		65%
Geordi LaForge		60%
Spock		55%
Worf		55%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		55%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		50%
Beverly Crusher		45%
Jean-Luc Picard		40%
Data		40%
Deanna Troi		40%
Chekov		35%
Will Riker		35%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		30%
Uhura		25%
Mr. Sulu		15%

You are a fun-loving foreigner with an amazing ability to get any job done on time. Often described as a "Miracle Worker".

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character am I?" quiz...

Mmm... Psychics

Watched a show on the Sci-Fi Channel this weekend about a pair of "psychics." The husband did the typical cold reading schtick and the wife did "psychic portraits." I did some digging and found their website: http://www.spiritart.com/introduction.htm

They kept showing side-by-side views of the spirit artist's sketches and the person they had been identified as by the family member. They'd flash them on the screen just long enough for you to get a quick glimpse and notice the vague similarity. However, if you freeze-frame (I love TiVo) or look at their portfolio (http://www.spiritart.com/portfolio.htm) you start to pick out some distinct differences between the portraits and the drawings that really point out that it's not the same person. The shape of the ear, particularly in regards to hanging earlobes is one clue. The artist also seems to have a tendency to draw elongated ears. Not sure if she's deliberately trying to use that to show age or if it's just a style thing.

Hair is also another give-away. Some of the men have their hair parted on the wrong side. Others have different hair lines. Now some might say that the artist is showing the spirits "self image," basically how they see themselves. I guess they'd therefore give themselves a bit more hair. But what about this guy who seems to have actually lost some hair in the portrait and gained about 60 lbs. Low self image? After your dead? Man, the afterlife must suck.

Then there's the proportions of the face. If you make a triangle between the eyes and mouth you can compare the proportions of the width of the eyes to the height of the eyes above the mouth. A lot of these aren't even close. Of course, a profile or 3/4 view makes it harder to make this determination. Although such a view accentuates the differences in the ears and nose.

You could probably put this off to the lack of talent of the artist to accurately depict what she "sees" but some of these differences (like the hanging earlobes) are just too blatant.

Additionally, many of the pictures are not of the subject's parents, grandparents or dead spouses. Most of them seem to be of more distant relatives. Like the one mentioned above, "I only spent an hour with my uncle in my life..." It also seems that many of the people were not able to identify the illustrations until they were able to go home and look through their family albums to find someone that looked similar.

Here's a little game... Look through their portfolio and their unclaimed portraits (which looks more like the caricatures you'd get in the mall) to see if you recognize any of YOUR relatives. Who knows? Someone may be trying to contact you.

Oh, here's a bonus... One of the matches wasn't even the same sex.