Where's George?
Jun. 24th, 2004 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonNo, not that George. The one on the dollar bill. The honest one.
So I get this dollar bill in the normal course of getting change for a 10 or a 20 and across the bottom someone's written:
www.wheresgeorge.com find out where this bill has been
Being the overly wired person that I am, I immediately hie me to the website to see what it is. It's a site someone set up for the sake of pure goofy fun in order to track bills as they move across the country (or not, as the case may be). But you've got to register in order to see where the dollar's been and all that. I'm leery, I'm cynical—but I also want to participate in Goofy Fun. Goofy Fun is good, one of my favorite things. I remember that I've got a stray email account set up on yahoo so I register using that and a fake name. I type my dollar bill's serial number into the locator.
Turns out it was last typed in June 21, 2003—almost a year ago exactly. And it's traveled the staggering distance of 5 miles in that time for an average rate of .001 miles a day. None of the other dollar bills in my possession had been registered before. I guess they had fallen into the hands of people who had more important things to do or who had never heard of Goofy Fun generators.
Repeat this mantra after me: Silly is GOOD.
They also track Canadian dollars here, but there's a Canadian site called WheresWilly. Alas, I would have input the British pounds I've still got in my possession, but they haven't set one of those up yet I guess.
So I get this dollar bill in the normal course of getting change for a 10 or a 20 and across the bottom someone's written:
www.wheresgeorge.com find out where this bill has been
Being the overly wired person that I am, I immediately hie me to the website to see what it is. It's a site someone set up for the sake of pure goofy fun in order to track bills as they move across the country (or not, as the case may be). But you've got to register in order to see where the dollar's been and all that. I'm leery, I'm cynical—but I also want to participate in Goofy Fun. Goofy Fun is good, one of my favorite things. I remember that I've got a stray email account set up on yahoo so I register using that and a fake name. I type my dollar bill's serial number into the locator.
Turns out it was last typed in June 21, 2003—almost a year ago exactly. And it's traveled the staggering distance of 5 miles in that time for an average rate of .001 miles a day. None of the other dollar bills in my possession had been registered before. I guess they had fallen into the hands of people who had more important things to do or who had never heard of Goofy Fun generators.
Repeat this mantra after me: Silly is GOOD.
They also track Canadian dollars here, but there's a Canadian site called WheresWilly. Alas, I would have input the British pounds I've still got in my possession, but they haven't set one of those up yet I guess.