I’ve had a page on the Internet Movie Database for years. The only really impressive thing listed is my appearance on Beauty and the Geek, but there are a smattering of other credits as well. I think it’s nifty enough (or my ego is just large enough) that I included that in the “My Other Websites” category here on the blog.
My stats page says that earlier today, someone clicked on a link to imdb.com, so I wanted to double-check and see which page it was. The page was mine, of course—why my master blogger instincts didn’t kick in, I’m not entirely sure—and up at the top, it has a little graph that says “SEE RANK”. I had a couple minutes of spare time, why not take a look? So I moved my mouse over the chart and it opened up a small display.
The graph was there to indicate a STARmeter. Now, if I was someone like Angelina Jolie or Johnny Depp, it probably wouldn’t change much since I’d be up toward the top of the list of STARdom. I’m not one of those people. Thus, when the STARmeter display opened up, it showed my change in ranking: “Up 206,361 this week.” That may not mean much in the grand scheme of things, but I think my ego just got a little larger.
