It’s Saturday, and the metrics for this blog (and presumably every website on the planet) show that readership goes down on weekends.

What that means is … you guys are surfing the web, and reading me (shhh!), at work.

You are so naughty!

So as not to tax you on a day off, or when you catch up on Monday, I’m going to link you to a silly but fun little diversion I saw on the New York Times website.

You can find it here.

It’s you versus a computer in rock-paper-scissors.

In theory, a guessing game like this should end in something very close to a three-way tie in wins-draws-defeats. It’s like flipping a coin.

Or is it?

The suggestion is that the “veteran” computer program has noticed that humans have patterns … and that if you play the computer long enough it will pick up on your subconscious habits and begin to defeat you at a rate higher than 33.3 percent of the time.

Interesting concept, and I don’t doubt it’s true.

It’s becoming a hard time for humans vs. computers.

I can remember a time, not even 25 years ago, when I bought a chess-playing computer and had a fairly good chance of forcing a draw — and I am by no means a strong chess player.

Now? Computers are defeating grand masters.

In a ballyhooed two-day competition, an IBM computer thrashed “Jeopardy!” legend Ken Jennings and another top champ last month.  At the end of Day 2, Jennings wrote on his screen, for Final Jeopardy, that “I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords,” a line he borrowed from a “Simpson’s” epsiode.

And now something like rock-paper-scissors, which should end in a dead heat, apparently will turn into a computer runaway, if you play long enough.

I didn’t make that mistake. I played long enough to take a 5-7-4 advantage, then logged off.

So, maybe the computer would beat me, eventually … though I tried to be as un-random as possible. But from this small sample, anyway, I was able to hold my own.

Good luck overcoming your computer overlord.