I Just Had My 15 Minutes
(x-posted from asklbb because it's kinda cool.)
My final year of law school starts today. As a preemptive battery-recharging measure, I went on a self-imposed Internet hiatus this weekend. I played some video games, watched some TV, took my wife to Delaware to meet our brand new niece. I purposely ignored my feed reader and (mostly) my email.
While I was gone, the Internet blew up in my face. I can't leave that thing unattended. (It's like the boiler in The Shining, only instead of highly pressurized steam, it explodes in rainbow-scented unicorn farts.)
Phil Plait - scientist, skeptic and geek-in-charge at the Bad Astronomy blog - got wind of my Dalek comic, and posted about it on Saturday afternoon. He even used the word "want" in the title, in that peculiar, it-might-be-a-noun kind of way that you usually only see on blogs that fetishize the latest Apple iProduct.
In 24 hours, we got more hits than we've racked up in any previous month. Some wonderful people even plunked down their money for the t-shirt, so I'll actually be able to donate something to the Robert Lancaster medical fund.
Don't worry, I won't let this fleeting Internet fame go to my head.
My final year of law school starts today. As a preemptive battery-recharging measure, I went on a self-imposed Internet hiatus this weekend. I played some video games, watched some TV, took my wife to Delaware to meet our brand new niece. I purposely ignored my feed reader and (mostly) my email.
While I was gone, the Internet blew up in my face. I can't leave that thing unattended. (It's like the boiler in The Shining, only instead of highly pressurized steam, it explodes in rainbow-scented unicorn farts.)
Phil Plait - scientist, skeptic and geek-in-charge at the Bad Astronomy blog - got wind of my Dalek comic, and posted about it on Saturday afternoon. He even used the word "want" in the title, in that peculiar, it-might-be-a-noun kind of way that you usually only see on blogs that fetishize the latest Apple iProduct.
In 24 hours, we got more hits than we've racked up in any previous month. Some wonderful people even plunked down their money for the t-shirt, so I'll actually be able to donate something to the Robert Lancaster medical fund.
Don't worry, I won't let this fleeting Internet fame go to my head.