so, this is weird. no one's forum avatars are loading and i'm constantly getting this in the bottom of my screen.

pardon the small font - but i looked up this IP and it's a Demonvps server located in phoenix? i'm in tucson currently.
what's up with this? anyone else having this issue, or is it just me?
EDIT: when i tried posting this i got a blank page that said "request timed out." first time that's happened to me. kinda funny