My online stalker demands that I update my blog

(My online stalker may very well be Augusta)

So, let's see. Stuff.

Well, while I was at the college the other day, I found something rather interesting: I looked up LGN on Google, and came up with this.

Now, I'm not sure exactly how the logistics of the whole thing work, but if I'm understanding this correctly, LimeGreenNetwork is the site people visit third most often after searching for the Dojo, behind only the Dojo itself and Nintendo's official Pokémon website.

Further investigation turned up the keyword page for LimeGreenNetwork itself. Again, if I'm understanding this site, people looking for lyrics to songs by the band Natural Breakdown spend more time on my site than people looking for anything else, and about 50% of the people on LGN go on to visit the Dojo. About 15% go on to Bleach Exile (which is the only thing that comes close to Natural Breakdown lyrics in terms of time spent on LGN) or to look for Led Zeppelin wallpapers, and a little more than 5% search for... "sex pictures." Huh.

Kinda makes you wonder.

So anyway, after looking at these statistics, I started getting a little curious. According to this place, LimeGreenNetwork refers an average of 1,241 people per month just to the Dojo alone. If that's an accurate stat, I have to ask, exactly how many people ARE visiting LGN, overall? How do they find it? Do they come back, or is it more of a "whoops, didn't mean to go there" sort of thing? And how did all of these keywords come to be associated with my site? I'd be very interested in finding stuff like this out - not that I've tried and failed or anything; I haven't bothered at all yet. But I'd like to get around to it at some point.

At this point, I was going to reference the number of hits registered by the counter on LGN's main page and compare that number to the 1,241 average mentioned above, but after going to look at the counter, I found out it's down, and, thanks to 1&1's hosting pulling their FrontPage support, I have no way of fixing it at the moment. Bugger.

Oh well. 'Nough of that for now. My hash browns demand flipping.

Okay. Now where was I?

Well, I've not been up to much else since the last update. I have some editing to finish for the paper before tomorrow, and I have class at noon (my Art History powerpack class started last weekend). The class is actually turning out to be quite fun and interesting, and I've got a good professor, too, which helps, of course. It's focusing on sculptures, statuettes, architecture, and that manner of thing. There was a class trip to the Met in NY that got cancelled, but Professor Gallagher actually has me interested enough that I think I'm going to go under my own steam sometime in the next few months (Augusta wants to come too, so hey! Good times for all).

I've also been working on cleaning up my organization for all of my music on my PC. About half of it is ripped from CDs that Augusta either lent to or burned for me, and as such, the filenames are simply "1 Track 1" and so on. Also, a lot of it doesn't have any track info whatsoever, either. My first target was Green Day, so I spent part of Friday and Saturday naming all the files properly and searching for all the accurate track and album info. I also dug out the old Green Day mix CD that Augusta and Maxine gave me a few years ago (before I started listening to "real" music again) and finally ripped that one, too, which added 21 new songs to my collection. While I was at it, I also downloaded a much higher-quality copy of "Whatsername" than that one I already had, which was kinda crap. So woo all around.

During this whole process, a couple of interesting things happened. First of all, I found out that a couple of songs I listen to all the time on The Bone and think about finding out who the artist is so I can find downloads for them - namely, "When I Come Around" and "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" - are actually by Green Day, and I was never bright enough to recognize them. Which is funny, because a lot of other songs that I didn't have on my PC before this weekend, like "Basket Case" and "Welcome to Paradise," I also hear on The Bone frequently, but I recognize them instantly as Green Day songs. Weird.

Second of all, while I was looking for that high-quality copy of "Whatsername," I stumbled across something else rather interesting on the download list:

13 - Green Day - Whatsername mp3 download
Green Day - Whatsername mp3 download
GreenDay-13-Whatsername mp3 download
Green Day - Whatsername mp3 download
Dean Gray - Whatsername (Susanna Hoffs) mp3 download

"Green Day, Green Day, Green Day, Green Day... 'Dean Gray?'"

So, of course, I had to download it.

What I found when I got home and listened to it was extremely strange - it started out as basically a dance/techno sort of remix to "Whatsername" with Billie Joe's singing from the original version pasted into it, but then all of a sudden, part way through, Billie Joe singing "Whatsername" was replaced by Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles singing "Manic Monday," still to the same remixed "Whatsername" music. Then back again. Then it was both of them singing bits of their respective songs back and forth to one another. As I later described to Augusta, it was as though two totally different songs had made love at a disco, and this was the resulting bastard child. Not to say it was completely horrible - I kinda liked it, so I kept it - but it was just weird.

After doing a little research at The Green Day Authority, I deduced that the song was probably part of American Edit, a mash-up album released by Party Ben and team9 before receiving a cease-and-desist order from Green Day's record label. It's interesting; I might try to find some other stuff from this album and see if it measures up.

Other than all the Green Day, David finally turned 13 on the 4th. He's a damn teenager now. A TEENAGER. I feel old. But one of the things he got was a PC game called Sins of a Solar Empire. Now, I had managed to never hear of this game before he asked me to play it with him later that day, but I have to say, it's awesome. I'm not going to bother describing it all right now - look it up on IGN or something if you're interested - but in short, imagine a space-faring Age of Empire featuring inter-solar-system combat and a free control camera allowing you to view the action from any angle or distance.

And laser beams. Loooooooots of laser beams.

So that's my new PC obsession.

Oh, and Augusta's renting Assassin's Creed on her 360 - I need to check that game out. Hopefully I'll have the chance before she returns it. She says it be awesome, though.

Anyway, that's all I got for the moment. New stuff later - I actually have other things I could talk about, I just don't feel like it right now. You people aren't cool enough to warrant my attention.

Be back!