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500,000 Very Crazy People
Posted by: Synthlight on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 08:09 PM |
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Wow. That is about the only word I have to express my feelings
about a certain something that arrived in the mail for me last week. What is it it you wonder? Well maybe it would be better
to show a photo of it.
Yup, they sent me a plaque for my years of service on this little project we call FFR. It has every name of every staff
member on FFR (along with their real names which I blurred out). It was completely unexpected. Actually, when I was opening
the box I was thinking to myself that this must be a joke because it was wrapped in layer upon layer of packaging and bubble
wrap. I felt like I was trying to get to the center of a tootsieroll pop. As I neared the actual contents of the package all
I could think of was that someone had sent me a plate by mistake. It took me about 15 seconds to realize that it was actually
something for ME. I could not believe it! In all my years of working with websites and BBS systems(we are talkin late 80's),
I have never..ever.. received anything like this. Again, the only word I can think of is "wow..". After years of working on
this project, it is nice to know that we have maintained such a tight knit and caring community here on FFR that continues
to grow every day with no signs of slowing down. It still amazes me when I watch the member count go up by the hundreds and
sometimes over a 1000 per day. I am grateful for every member.
Speaking of Every member, it just so happens that by the time I post this story, we should have exactly 500,000 members.
It's just crazy.. just crazy..
2 Thanksgiving's ago I made a small list of what I am thankful for. I think I will
close this story with something similiar and strictly off the top of my head.
I am thankful for people caring enough to visit FFR on a regular basis
I am thankful for the plaque I received in the
mail
I am thankful for the doors that FFR has opened
I am thankful for the mods in the forum and chat that put up with
all kinds of bullsh*t every day of their life
I am thankful for the musical artists that continue to support our project
I
am thankful for the staff that watches my back 24/7
I am thankful for Konami and the wonderful genre of games they created
I
am thankful for my family letting me spend time on FFR even when I don't have much time for them
I am thankful for linux
I
am thankful for anyone who puts up with me
I am thankful for Halo2 multiplayer and not campaign
I am thankful for the
people who AIM me and don't get upset when I don't answer right away
I am thankful for thanksgiving
I am thankful for
Jason Key for providing custom chat software and believing in FFR
I am thankful for my awesome keyboard
I am thankful
for the late nights that soccr has put into R2 so far
I am thankful for Vonage
I am thankful to those of you who used
to listen to me DJ on the radio last summer
I am thankful for having a 3year old who can play Halo2
I am thankful to
my clients
I am thankful that I have this odd skillset to get me through life
I am thankful my wife doesn't get upset
when I don't go to sleep until 6am
I am thankful we have 500,000 members
I am thankful for each of those members
I
am thankful we have almost 700 people browsing during peak times
I am thankful this list is almost over
I am thankful
I only took 3 minutes to write all of this list
I am thankful you read it
I am thankful I am not feeling as old as I
really am
I am thankful I am switching to cingular instead of sprint
I am thankful about partnerships I cannot tell
everyone about yet (ooh!)
I am thankful that BPRC is getting married in 1 day
I am thankful that this is the last line
I will say thankful on
Thanks again everyone for sticking around during these last couple of years. It has been strange watching some of you grow
up during this timespan. I have watched some of you go through highschool, some of you graduate college and even watched as
a few of you enter into the military for your training to serve our country (Spec!). Thanks again for hanging around and seeing
FFR for the community that it is. FFR is here for everyone to enjoy. This is why even after almost 3 years, you have not seen
a single pop-up ad. FFR is as free as always and it is important to me that it stays that way, even if I am the one that pays
for it. NOW BACK TO UPDATING FFR!! RIGHT NOW!! BREAK OVER!
Cheers,
Synthlight
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Nov 30th Radio Show on FFr Radio
Posted by: SpookG on Monday, November 29, 2004 - 06:17 PM |
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November 30th radio show.
http://ffrradio.com:8000/listen.pls
It's my birthday, and I will be doing a live broadcast of my set starting around 5:30pm pst, 8:30pm est. It will be
a mixture of Drum 'n bass, trance, hard trance, and psy if I get around to it. And yeah, just see what's up. I don't know
how long it will be, but it should go for a couple hours.
FYI, the radio server is back up, so the autoplaylist will
be on too if you want to listen.
*EDIT* Yes, i know about the autokick the server has been doing.. it isn't something
I can control, and it isn't anything on my end. I'm sorry it is occuring, and hope you will just bear with it.
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