Hey, sorry about the brief posting hiatus. Hopefully the artwork in this piece (among other things) will make up for it, and hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with a new SC article. In the meantime, hop over to the main page, read the Site Talk block, and write me with answers to my questions! They would be most helpful. And, y'know, leave donations if you want. (more...)

Yep. Two new pieces for today. First, "Joan of Arc", a new installment of Crayon Poetry Corner from contributor Jax! Welcome to the SC family, Jax. And speaking of family, in the other piece, A Crayon Haiku Farewell, SC says goodbye to the noble Duncan MacPhish. Rest in peace, little guy. (more...)

So it looks like Scary-Crayon's fifteen minutes of fame are almost up, with the site only pulling in 1794 unique visitors yesterday and raking in just under 800 MB of traffic. With the exception of the net ads piece, which was viewed 1400 times, page views are just about back to normal. Admittedly, with me footing all bandwidth costs until July 17, the thought of a decrease in traffic isn't entirely unappealing, but I will miss the popularity of SC (even though it didn't get us any donations and only a couple of people e-mailed me about the site). Hey, I guess I can always look back and remember that seven day stretch during which SC pulled in over 20,000 unique visitors, eh? Not bad for our humble little page. (more...)

Subject: [Info]_Traffic_limit:_100%_reached

Dear Brandon Dennis,

You have used 100% of your included monthly traffic of 5000 MB (5.00 GB).

Traffic above and beyond the free volume will be charged at the price shown on our Website.

Please note that you can check your current traffic usage in the Control Panel at any time, as well as set your own cost limit.

Yours sincerely,
1&1 Internet Team

Yeah, I'd already seen the logs, but I guess it takes a day or so for them to process 'em over in the billing department. (more...)

So I mentioned last time that Stupid Internet Ads! got linked on Metafilter. Since then, it's been linked on Adrants and CollegeHumor.com. And I told you about the unique visitor tolls last time, right? Let's recap.

Friday: 1770
Saturday: 1326
Sunday: 674
Monday: 1090

Good! Ready for the latest figure?

Tuesday: 8196

Yep. Yesterday saw nearly 4 gigs of traffic, folks... which definitely puts us over the set bandwidth for the billing period. Which means I'm now footing the bill for all new incoming traffic. And if the period starts on the 17th of each month (and I think it might...), that's uh, not good. So yeah, hopefully some donations will come in at some point... (more...)

So I haven't had a lot to say these past few days, namely because despite my gothic tendencies I don't want this to turn into a blog of dark depression and misery and dripping mascara -- suffice it to say that things are pretty bad. It might amuse you to know that on Thursday I dropped my hair clipper as I began to cut my hair, knocking the blade out of the cutter, breaking it, and leaving a dent in the floor to boot. I found a screwdriver and fixed the clipper, but now it doesn't work as well... (more...)

First of all, thanks to everyone for the condolences regarding Duncan's passing. I plan to have a Crayon Haiku up about him sometime this week or next week, so he can live on not only in my blog but on SC as well. Hard to believe I really miss a fish -- he'd been here so long I hardly even noticed him when he was here -- but his death makes me feel slightly lumpy inside. It's weird. (more...)