Actually, I don't think geocities allows hotlinking. Your browser is probably just loading the image from your cache.
Glad I could help. Quite a few Freepers use Tinypic.
lol well I used to use it for stuff like this. but recently they started only allowing 4.2 megs of transfer an hour lol. I just found out. so like with a 132K file, thats like 20 people and it cuts out.