Gas mask with crappy mic to simulate distortion and a compressor most likely, Reverb'd chrous, and a third mic with distortion/compression and I think a compressor. It's a very abrasive song.

I was listening to ThouShaltNot's album the White Beyond... and noticed that it has a list of odd examples of song structure that melodically work out well.

I'm going to sleep now.

For a while now, we've been hard at work on the next version of Furocity, and we are finally nearing the stage where we will begin opening up registration for beta testing.

You can take a look at an example profile (mine) and see how the brand new design. You can also watch the Changelog to see what new features are being implemented, and how much of the site has been completed.

Once the galleries have been completed and tested to our satisfaction, registration will then be opened to all premium users (and selected new beta testers), so we can squash any and all bugs before we open the site up to everyone.

Please, take a look at the new site, and give us your feedback!

Please note that your Furocity username and password will not work on the beta site. For reasons of safety and security, the beta site uses a completely separate (and sandboxed) database of information.

Host: Join The impact Massachusetts
Type: Causes - Rally
Network: Global
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: Long Wharf (Aquarium T-Stop)
City/Town: Boston, MA
Phone: 6178405145
Email: info@jointheimpactma.com

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When: Tax Day, April 15 @ 5:30pm
Where: Long Wharf (next to the Aquarium T-Stop)
Why: It'll be a fun, creative way to protest the unequal tax treatment of same-sex married couples.

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Please take just 2 minutes and invite all your friends in the Boston area to attend. It really does make a difference.

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Join us on April 15th as we throw symbolic federal tax forms into Boston Harbor, in a lively 21st century recreation of a seminal 18th century blow for freedom and equality. History will come alive that Wednesday at 5:30 on Long Wharf, near the Aquarium T-stop. Present-day patriots are encouraged to attend and wear colonial period costume if so inclined to make a statement against antiquated social policy.
The people of Massachusetts have a history of rising up to protest injustice. On December 16, 1773 Boston patriots gathered at the Old South Meeting House, outraged over the central government’s exploitation of tax policy to make a heavy-handed political point. In disguise colonists charged Griffin Wharf (filled-in now but near modern-day Long Wharf), where the Dartmouth was anchored with a cargo of East Indian tea subject to British tax. The price of the tea was going to be rock-bottom, to induce economically-distressed colonists to buy into the imperial tax as a British prerogative. Patriots objected to the manipulative ploy, so they boarded the Dartmouth and threw the tea into Boston Harbor rather than yield on principle. Events were set in motion that culminated in the British evacuation of Boston on March 17, 1776 and the Declaration of Independence later that year. And tea consumption in America plummeted, with coffee becoming the patriot’s hot beverage of choice.

Today our federal government plays favorites by denying some families tax and other legal benefits others get in the same situation. The lash of discrimination is felt particularly hard in the land of Paul Revere and John and Sam Adams. Massachusetts has recognized same-sex marriages for five years, yet gay and lesbian taxpayers are hit with a surtax that married straights don’t pay if their employer’s health insurance covers their spouses. Consider the situation of Bob F and Jim S, who’ve been married since 2005 and live in Jamaica Plain. Bob is a Massachusetts state employee, with excellent health benefits. Jim is a contract worker whose job doesn’t carry benefits. Because, under Massachusetts law, the state includes Jim in its health insurance umbrella, Bob must pay tax on the “in-kind” income Jim’s health insurance coverage represents to him in legal fiction. That adds up to less income for Bob after taxes—a discriminatory federal surtax for being in a legal same-sex marriage. Other legal rights, like social security spousal survivor benefits and special immigration status which go to straight married couples, are also denied to legally-bound couples who happen to be gay or lesbian.

Like the manipulative British taxes on tea, intentional federal discrimination against same-sex families represents a highly invasive form of social engineering worthy of King George himself. Preferred families get benefits denied to legally-bound but second-class families, as though the government can or should be influencing how people fall in love. That’s inequality so fundamental that it tears at the basic American values which grew out of historic events like the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The Declaration of Independence reminds us that “all [people] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The time has come for the federal government to stop discriminating against loving couples because some religious denominations (though not others) don’t acknowledge their commitment. Let’s turn the page on federally-mandated inequality and treat committed and loving couples evenhandedly, to honor the values our Republic was founded on.

P.S. Several people have asked -- the crates that are thrown into the water will be attached to rope so we can reel them back in! There will be no pollution.

Lyrics
If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me

Well you got your reasons
And you got your lies
And you got your manipulations
They cut me down to size

Sayin you love but you dont
You give your love but you wont

If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me

Seems the road less traveled
Shows happiness unraveled
And you got to take a little dirt
To keep what you love
Thats what you gotta do

Sayin you love but you dont
You give your love but you wont
Youre stretching out your arms to something thats just not there
Sayin you love where you stand
Give your heart when you can

If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me

Sayin you love but you dont
You give your love but you wont
Sayin you love where you stand
Give your heart when you can

If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me

So again, I regret to inform that this will be my last post, but I quit :)

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Edit: The avatar-upload problem has been fixed. We apologize for the delay.

Registrations have been re-enabled, as our mailserver has been fixed.

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Sorry for the maintenance, but it was an important upgrade to our servers. Speed, security, and kittens have all been improved.

Yes, kittens. Now they're WARKITTENS. Everyone loves warkittens.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled surfing.

We're still not sure exactly why the error was occurring, but everything should be fixed, now.

We apologize for any problems that this caused.

New Profile Tag Added
We've recently added a new tag to our profile system, the [IMGLINK] tag, which allows you to link using an image, and have added a new button to the editing toolbar above all long-text entry fields on your profiles, journals, and galleries. Should you want to link to an image using a thumbnail, you would use the tag as follows:
[IMGLINK=full-size-image]thumbnail[/IMGLINK]

For example, using:
[IMGLINK=http://www.furocity.com/profimages/1.jpg] http://www.furocity.com/profimages/1-s.jpg [/IMGLINK]

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Upcoming Furocity Features
We've been mulling things over for a while, trying to come up with new features that will be useful to everyone.

Here's what we've come up with:

Are there any features that you'd like to see? Let us know, please!

Ads? On My Furocity?
It's more likely than you think.

We've recently placed advertisements at the bottom of all pages here on Furocity. Hopefully, these ads will not be too annoying for you, our users, but we needed assistance in keeping the server costs down at a manageable level.

Premium members, however, will -never- see any ads, and anyone viewing a premium member's profile won't see the ads, either.

Premium Membership Problem Fixed
It has come to our attention that some browsers were not allowing members to sign up for our Premium Memberships (thanks, dragonmage1703 and mekenoka!). Once you had clicked the "Submit Order" button, the browser would just stall. We have changed the way the system works, and it seems as though the problem has been fixed. If anyone is still having issues with the Premium Membership ordering system, please send us a PM or an e-mail.

Even worse -- due to lack of interest in the Premium memberships, we've been forced to put ads on Furocity, something I hoped that I would never have to do. Unfortunately, the site costs a fortune to keep running, and I can't really afford so much each month to keep the site afloat.

Hopefully, people will decide to get some damn memberships so I can take the ads down. I hate having the friggin' things on the site.

In celebration of this event, we have halved the price for all Premium Keys for the next 30 days. In addition to this, all accounts which have been upgraded before October 23rd using a new Premium Key will be entered into a drawing to have their key length doubled, in addition to all of the other Premium Membership benefits!

If you want to get in on the action, head on over to https://www.psumonix.com/furocity/ to claim your very own Premium Key.

Went to see Hairspray last Saturday. So great. I loved the original and this version is great as well. Both are different enough to be favorites! :3 Divine (in the original version) played Edna Turnblad wonderfully but in my opinion John Travolta played her with even more charm.

I picked up the soundtrack on CD a couple days ago and have been listening nonstop to a few of the catchier songs like "Good Morning Baltimore", "I Can Hear the Bells", "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs" (Michelle Pfeiffer can friggin' sing AND play an appealing villain!), the so very cute duo between Travolta and Nikki Blonsky "Welcome to the 60's", and the super-upbeat and inspiring "You Can't Stop the Beat".

Scary kitty 1
Scary (Satan) kitty 2

I've put in an order for the Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens as well as the matching hood and UV haze reduction filter. I'm gonna need this lens to power photograph and build up my portfolio. Unfortunately a long telephoto lens isn't enough! This new lens also has image stabilization (IS), my telephoto doesn't and thus suffers from the all-too-common camera shake with blurry results.

I'm planning on opening my own business, website, and print store (at home). When I generate enough money I can then purchase a Canon ImageproGRAF printer and make super-large gallery-sized prints. :D The many different types of paper for that series of printers is just mind-blowing in beauty. The watercolor paper makes things look so soft and lovely. Like looking into a dreamscape. The canvas paper makes photographs look like they were paintbrushed right on it.

And (before or after) that... I can take a much-needed trip somewhere north.

I can do this... I know I can. I've wanted to do this for so many many years, and now I can see myself realizing the dream.

They just keep coming back.

If I didn't have those Quiet Time earplugs, I'd friggin' lose it and rampage him. Time and time again he knows not to do that bullshit in the morning, but he claims that he doesn't think you can hear it indoors. Yeah right.