Beyond the equivalent of taking a picture of the event for posterity E-Sabbath, I didn’t do anything. The server just did what servers are supposed to do. 
Jerry
I’m thinking that getting /.ed back on our previous server would have made last winter look a bit like a small hiccup.
We’re (well, okay me, anyway) all just a bit in awe, is all, Jerry.
Long Live The Chicago Reader, and that Knight of the Realm Sir Jerry, Master of Hamsters!
[sub]I’m also thinking that we may have to upgrade the hamster jokes to, say, toy poodles, or possibly guinea pigs. Mebbe even big steroidal lab rats?[/sub]
That’s interesting. I wondered where the link to the LOTR thread in my local sports board came from. Apparently, there was a pyramid effect as well. People see the link at /. and go to other boards and posts links and so on and so on. Yeah, I can see where that could cause a bottleneck!
Please accept this song by Those Darn Accordions! as a small token of our gratitude, Sir Jerry!
Two comments: It’s threads like this one that make me wish that jdavis posted more as a regular user, rather than appearing magically when a serious tech. question is raised and the Mods. sacrifice a gerbil to the Tech Gods.
And it would be an excellent idea for an Admin. (for maximum effect) to post the copyright notice to that particular thread, with the note that posters retain copyright to their works subject to the rights of other members to quote them and the non-exclusive copyright of the Chicago Reader to reprint anything from the board that they choose. (Memo to Professional Editors: that thread has enough creativity and humor that aren’t board-specific that it might make an excellent and profitable book, if arrangements can be made with the Reader and/or the members who contributed in-the-style-of parodies.)
I’ll just toss out that the thread was briefly showing in the top 25 on Blogdex yesterday (http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/) which means that for a while it was in the top 25 new links posted to all of the Weblogs that Blogdex monitors. Whew! Talk about giving the hamsters a workout!