name fame

here is an item of little interest: this is a picture of a man who shares my name. he is probably the most well known person of this name alive today. he acheived such great heights by being a professor of zoology at the unversity of manitoba. perhaps some day i will overtake him in reputation.

it is a somewhat reasonable goal for most people, i believe, to become the best-known person with their name. in most cases it won't be too hard except for all the other oprah winfreys, thomas pynchons and edward goreys out there. since relative academic notoriety is the bar i have to clear, i think i have a shot at this.
if google searches are any indication i am currently in second place for name fame though perhaps third if you were to count my long dead great-great-great grandfather who has a reasonably significant internet presence for a maine farmer who died in 1867.
i also may have competition from a rising young australian actor who has been making some gains recently:

i suppose in real fame he beats me, but i'm first in google, so i'll take what i can get. (thanks, college hill independent)
i'll be intermittently following their careers, quietly hoping for their failure in an uninteresting manner lest the day come when i introduce myself and instead of being compared to the reverend from the simpons it'll be "oh, like that famous australian actor."

yes, like him.