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The Annual Cut-it-all-Off Haircut

This was what I was so attached to – the world’s tiniest ponytail.

I saved that, to send in the mail. That’s funny.

You know Niki. Thanks missy xo

This is a now well-documented routine by now, on this blog tag – Brennen Demelo…

… I grow my hair, trying to achieve my dream ponytail > it becomes stringy and I realize I have no hair, and am being delusional > I cut it all off.

How’s it look from the side? Or like this?

How’s it look with a hat?

This is important.

Excellent.

Go too – Brennen Demelo Studios – 416-301-1072

 

 

You Have a Facebook Facial Recognition Number

A unique number has been assigned to the face of each account.  From the help page:

Facial Recognition Data – A unique number based on a comparison of the photos you’re tagged in. We use this data to help others tag you in photos.

We currently use facial recognition software that uses an algorithm to calculate a unique number (“template”) based on someone’s facial features, like the distance between the eyes, nose and ears. This template is based on your profile pictures and photos you’ve been tagged in on Facebook

This is “Tag Suggest“.

Last week, I downloaded my Facebook account archive, to see what was included in it (how to here).  Below is my face when I found this face number, imagination going wild.

Because really, Facebook is the world’s largest biometric database.

And its entire contents were not only submitted voluntarily, but tagged and identified as well. Someone is going to sleep laughing each night.

Facebook updated their privacy policy at the end of the summer, to account for some more powerful software, for a better “Tag Suggest”.

Some countries are not okay with this, Germany’s pretty upset. They’ve been pushing back for a while wait, I may have blogged this hang on….. yup here: October ’12. There’s much debate about to who and how access is granted, to this database.

I’m not 100%, and the test I conducted was only so-so, but it appears that in Canada, we can’t turn off “Tag Suggest”.

Here’s the Facebook help page, “Turn OFF Tag Suggest“. It says the last item below is where to disable the feature (purple asterisk).

Below are my settings, “unavailable”.

Ugh. Unavailable. Eye roll.

Here tag this.

 

 

The Iciest Cars You’ll See all Week

Remember that massive fire in Kingston, Ontario two weeks ago?

This car lot is across the street from that fire.

Crazy eh.

An aside – remember during the fire, that amazing rescue of the crane operator, by helicopter ?

That’s likely the same helicopter that starred with me in a photoshoot a few years ago.

Here’s the posts & video about that.

 

 

Go For a Kenzie Car Calendar

If you’ve read anything auto-related in Canada, you’ve probably read something by Jim. He’s Canada’s foremost automotive journalist, Chief Auto Reviewer for The Toronto Star’s Wheels section and here’s his blog, he stars in a segment on TSN’s MotoringTV, serves on international juries and races in Targa.

Each year, Jim Kenzie publishes a calendar of his best photos for charity.

We are opposites; it still takes me 250 photos to make a 15-photo gallery, and here’s Jim’s photos, and none are photoshopped.

$14.95, proceeds go to the charity Parachute, and now in its 9th year, Jim has raised over $30,000, nice!

Click here to buy.

Update – January 21

Best hurry to buy, Jim just told me he is almost sold out, with just a handful left. Even better, he’ll be making his largest donation to Parachute yet. Congratulations Jim!