Wednesday, February 01, 2006

How sad to google ...

A little brief history for those of you not into classical stories or Brad Pitt buff and naked. When Achilles met with his mother before leaving for the Trojan War he was posed this question, "You can choose to live out a life of nothing and be happy forever, yet no one will remember you except your kin - and that will only be for a few generations or you can fight this war and live forever in the stories, countless people will mutter the name Achilles."

Achilles (if you didn't already know) chose a short life so that his name would live on; however, upon evaluation of his former he chose his next one to be a farmer and live a long life - short of being infamous in history.

So nowadays we can see who is infamous or not on a little website called "google." We've all done it, typed in our names or someone else's to see what we could find. How sad it is when the search pulls up nothing. It's then when you take a deep breath and resign yourself to do something that will be noticed by the web searchers, something grand, something that makes a searcher double take and think - damn, good call on her.

Right now google shows nothing for me - but by the end of the year, I resign myself to a grand venture that will get me noticed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't base any life altering decisions on a search engine's results page.......