For today's update, Splinter and Mummato explore the mysteries of Whitehall pasteurized processed sandwich slices. And for the Buffy fans out there, the cheese guy from "Restless" also makes a screencapped appearance. Enjoy! (more...)

Nasty weather we're having, eh? For those of you not in the area, we're in the middle of a heavy rain-thunder-lightning-hailstorm. But hey, at least I'm not without background noise...it almost sounds like it's coming through the roof. I hope not! (more...)

Alright, so today's unique visitors only doubled, which isn't so bad. And while I'm sure that the plug on god bless the children of iraq had something to do with it, I'm not entirely sure how much, since a good number of hits came in today from a handful of blog and forum posts. And of course, the TMNT anime drew the vast majority of hits, which probably wouldn't be the case if most of the visitors came to the index, since I'd expect them to read the most recent articles rather than the old TMNT one. Well, there's a relief. Actually, it's worth noting that it was the blog that pulled in more than the usual number of posts, with over double the visitors it gets on a regular basis. Given that the usual number of people viewed the main page, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the post pages and the resultant increased frequency of pages appearing on google searches help account for the increased number of unique visitors, as well as the possibility that the various web bots faced the daunting challenge of scanning them ALL today (which would account for today's rather HUGE access log file). Whew.

So yeah, the site is okay! And I'm still gonna donate something to Ryan, 'cause that server's gotta be killing him, even if my shameless plug didn't end up causing the death of mine. Again, I wipe my brow to that one.

Alrighty, I'm mighty tired now, but I should have a new article for you on Wednesday...and maybe another little something later today/tomorrow. Whee.

In just over three hours, people, we get to see how awesomely bad this idea really was. I'm already in the process of drafting a really awkward e-mail begging the site's owner to remove that link for me...and I'm already preparing to give the guy a donation, too. Not solely because of all of the free advertising, but because if the number of people who visited the site today is high enough to scare me, how many others must be viewing his page and playing around with that script? After all, that slogan is number 758,237 -- if so many people came across IT, how many people must be visiting overall? That site must be killing his server, so here more than ever I feel compelled to donate a buck or two or more to help out his cause.

Jeez, I didn't expect that it would pull in as many hits as I'm anticipating...but even if it didn't, I'll still probably donate something and ask for a withdrawal. We'll see. SOON.

Courtesy of god bless the children of iraq, free advertising! 'Cept given the popularity of this site, I'm thinking maybe that was a bad idea, seeing as how I have a bandwidth cap and all...but hopefully that won't do too much damage. (more...)