IO9 had an article on faceblindness and someone linked to this test. I feel incredibly privileged right now, and also like I spend too much time looking at pictures of people, because I consider myself only average with facial recognition (and I have a deepseated continual panic that I will lose the ability to recognise my mother's face. I have no idea what that's about), and I could get 100%. Average is 85%. And some people just plain can't do that.

The brain is terrifying. Freaky deaky.

I've also been thinking about coincidences. I have bumped into more people from my two years of Jamaican high school than I have who went to McGill. The odds are kerfucked for that. I just never find McGill grads, but for no good reason (three of the times were off the island) I've bumped into girls I went to high school with. What *is* that? Why are we all over the place.

I've only bumped into two McGill grads since I left Montreal. Two face to face encounters, anyway. More online, but my high school meetups weren't online.

I got 100% too, although I feel like being able to remember his movies and not recall his damn name should have counted against me for Robert Fucking DeNiro.

I missed three, but one because I entered the wrong name without thinking. One I blanked on, and one I remembered his characters' names, but not his.

Didn't need to say it twice.

I think you can remember the character's names, according to the instructions. Weirdly, I had that problem with Robert DeNiro as well.

The only one I found a little difficult was Jennifer Aniston- without hair she looked a little like christina applegate.

Patrick Stewart I couldn't place because he didn't look right with a partial head...oddly enough!

I had to stare at a few of them before the name came to me. I blanked on Cruise, Hanks, and Tony Blair. A face completely out of context is hard to recognize - hair being context, apparently. I guess that's why some people don't recognize someone who's changed their hairstyle. I once walked right past my then-boyfriend without recognizing him because he'd shaved off his beard. Granted, he did look strange.

I got a couple of those embarrassingly wrong, and I totally identified Ben Stiller as "Anne Meara's son"

The one I completely missed was Tony Blair. I actually put down Robert Wagner, because I was so stumped.

Right, so. I'm going to burn the world down.