Thursday, November 30, 2006

The World Famous Nation

This is posting is part musing and part gloating...

While I was in New York on my honeymoon, I visited a very understated pizza joint called "Orignal Ray's". Now regardless if you've heard of this pizza place before, plastered on virtually ever sign was "World Famous!". After that, I notice many other "World Famous" rankings of various sorts which I've never heard of before. This brings me to my musing at hand: How does Ray know he is world famous?

Seems there's a lot of World Famous floating around, and no governing body to properly distribute these rankings. Am I supposed to assume there is a flyer posted some where on a Bangladesh bulletin board for New York Ray's Pizzeria? Joe Bangladesh walking by the flyer every morning with his Starbucks thinks "some day..."

Is it expected that people burst through the doors of said understated pizzeria taking pictures exclaiming... I made it to Rays! Didn't happen while I was ordering my slice of flat and old pepperoni. And, what exactly is Ray famous for? His oversized cockroaches actually know how to spin the pizza dough? Seems something amiss in these rakings which the Nation cries afoul.

So, this story brings me to about an hour ago, when Steve Nation when to check his site usage stat's. See that little "site meter" icon on the right side of this page, down a bit? It's a little guy that tracks who visits my site. (rest assured, your identity is safe. It only tracks general info.)The Nation figured it'd be a cool little tool. Low and behold, check out the map of computers that visited the Steve Nation over the last month.














Observe all the dots? That represents people; people who live on planet earth. What da ya know. Steve Nation is World Famous!! And that my friends, is the rest of the story :)

And to that I say Thanks! Cheers! Gracias! Salamat! (in Filipino) and for that guy way there in Canada.. dude, you gotta move.

1 comment:

Allan Teruel said...

That was probably me in Indonesia that visited you.

BTW: It's "salamat" in "Filipino", but I would also accept "Pilipino".

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