Blessed by the Potato

Turns out Star Wars: Empire at War was released a few weeks ago. I hadn’t really noticed, and won’t have time to give it more of a try for a while (the demo didn’t grab me and scream at me to get the game so much as whisper, in a sultry tone, “look for me in the bargain bin, and we’ll stay up all night. Oh, and I don’t mind if you spend the whole time wishing I was more like StarCraft… just as long as you play me hard, you video game addicted tool.”) The Onion had this to say about it: “Sure, you could find a deeper or better-tuned strategy game—but this one has AT-ATs.”

Oddly enough, I find myself humming the Imperial March a lot (Vader’s theme) lately, and I’ve had it stuck in my head all night. At first I didn’t really mind because… you know… Star Wars. But now, it’s getting on my nerves. Anyone know of a way to get it to stop, aside from getting a legitimately annoying song stuck up there?

I think it might be some sort of subconscious metaphor about my thesis. However, I’m not yet clear on what exactly it’s alluding to. The fierce oppression of a half-mad sorcerer? The desperate search to retrieve the plans to the ultimate weapon before it can be taken away by the rebel scum? The ascendancy of the pupil by facing the master in combat?

Anyway… I took a look at the site’s traffic. It peaked over the winter break, and has been slowly dwindling. I guess I haven’t been writing very entertaining posts lately. I’ve noticed a few patterns. Firstly, traffic dips significantly on the weekends. I can think of two possible reasons for that, the first being obviously that people like to procrastinate and read this while they’re at work (or that they only check on weekdays and have lives on the weekend), and the other being that since I usually visit my parents on the weekend, it’s never updated anyway. Next, despite my predictions to the contrary, long posts generally don’t generate any comments whatsoever. Perhaps they’re too long to bother finishing? And finally, it’s really exciting to have enough traffic to see patterns in it! (Even if half of it is from search engine crawlers).