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Comment #4907

2015-08-17T21:36:33Z

I took the test, and got all of them right but one. (Here are the two people I mixed up: one's in the test, the other isn't. But they hang out together.)

The six women side by side confused me. The way the interviewer spoke, I thought all were the same person, but I only recognized the top middle with something approaching certainty, and knew I should know the bottom left name. Turns out there's a reason, which has to do with your pop culture complaint: Top middle is still an active actress doing acclaimed work, bottom left is an actress somewhat before my time, and the others are TV/news personalities, which I hardly ever see over here.

Fascinating stuff! The things we can't do...

Comment #4906

2015-08-16T19:35:09Z

I liked her, too, and was sorry when she left. But of course it was the character I liked, not the actress.

Comment #4905

2015-08-16T18:18:12Z

And isn't it funny that I just watched a TV show where one of the characters had prosopagnosia? It was an episode of the Boston police show "Rizolli and Isles". A witness to a murder had prosopagnosia. Not very helpful!

BTW, Dr. Maura Isles, the ME, is played by Sasha Alexander, who was Caitlin Todd on NCIS. I know you like Ziva, but I remember Cait.

Comment #4904

2015-08-16T18:08:08Z

Good job on reading books from your shelf!

I read Sack's "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood" and enjoyed it. Several of his other books are on my TBR list.

Not surprisingly, he has a TedTalk if you are so inclined.