Helping With Scientific Studies

Where's George has been used by many people to setup models to study how a disease could potentially spread. As with this article form Yahoo! News called 'Worst Case' Scenario for Flu Estimated from May 1, 2009, Where's George is cited as a resource for a study. I am glad that a hobby that I enjoy a great deal is being used to help people.

How I Got Started

I first read about Where's George? in the Times-News. I thought it was interesting being able to track where the money in my pocket goes next. So, I decided to check the web site out. I entered my First Bill on November 14, 1999. I have yet to get a hit on that bill. Most likely since it was a five and I handwritten the website on it I will not get a hit on it. Even if it is still out there somewhere. While on January 18, 2000, I got my first hit, two months and four days after I entered my first bill. Just for a little fun the bill I entered closes to my first bill that received a hit was the eleventh bill. I entered it on November 16, 1999 my third day Georging. It was hit on May 28, 2000 becoming my 38th hit. That is 193 Days, 18 Hours, and 24 Minutes after I entered it. If you are still waiting for your first hit continue entering bills and the hits will come.

Welcome!

Welcome to my new Blog. I wanted to start a Blog on my favorite hobby of tacking my money with Where's George. I set this Blog up this morning and of course this is my first post to the Blog. I started georging, as we Georgers call it on November 14,1999.

I guess to best place to start is with my stats at the end of 2008.

This Report is current as of: Jan-01-09 12:02 AM
I have entered 4,419 Bills worth $21,519
Bills with hits: 639 Total hits: 767
Hit rate: 14.46% Slugging Percentage: 17.36% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 954.10
My rank (based on George Score) is #2,552
(out of 50,369 current users with a George Score. [94.9 Percentile])
My State Rank in North Carolina is: 65 out of 3,551 [98.2]
My initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 172,027 miles.
They have averaged 237.1 miles per hit and 208.58 days between each hit.

Now, I will post when I get a hit, enter a wild, updates on my stats, or anything else that is Where's George related. In saying that This morning while entering bills at work, I can across three wilds. Wilds are bills that another Georger as already entered. These three bring my wilds entered up to 99 and they are not counted in the stats above. Here they are:

Wild #97
Wild #98
Wild #99

Please take the time to check out Where's George if you have not already. If you are a follow Georger with a Where's George Blog let me know about it and I will add it to my Blog Roll.