Celebrity Sightings
I wish I were someone who could draw from memory. The other day during my lunch break, I saw this guy at the local branch of the public library that I go to, and he looked really familiar. But I couldn’t tell if he looked familiar because he was a famous person, or because he’s just someone I’ve seen before. Does that ever happen to you? Maybe you have to live somewhere like New York or LA where celebrity sightings happen fairly frequently. Like, one time I was walking to the subway after work with my co-worker, and we passed this guy walking in front of the business school. I turned to my co-worker and asked, “Was that one of my scholars? He looked really familiar. Did I process his visa documents?” And she was like, “Dude. That was Gabriel Byrne.”
So, yeah, this guy at the library. He could have been that guy from that show, or he could have just been the maintenance guy in my office building. If I could draw from memory, I could put together a little police sketch, post it to the Internet, and you could all tell me if he famous. Problem solved.
Some sort of crazy future-technology eyeball camera thing would work, too. Like, in the future, we’ll all be able to recall any image that we’ve ever seen, screen cap it in our brains, and upload it to Flickr or whatever through brainwave Bluetooth wireless technology. Eventually, we’ll probably be able to upload video, too.
