News, rants, verbal assaults from the past...
	07-05

You've all heard of the "Darwin Awards" (...anyone with email's heard of them...)  We have a true life Darwin Runner-Up story for you right close to home! Creach tells us of a roofing incident that happened last week in Toronto...  A 19 year old (...name unknown...) was going to take the day off work as it was his 19th birthday.  His father, the foreman for the company, insisted he go to work stating a birthday's not a reason to miss a days work.  While on the site of a roofing job, two roofers were using pitchforks to tear up the singles when one made a turn and knocked the others pitchfork off the second story sending it hurling to the ground below.  Directly under it...  You guessed it, our unknown was bending down cleaning up some of the debris (...which he shouldn't have been...) when the fast approaching fork made a bee-line for the back of his head.  As a result, our hero was being rushed to the hospital (...as well as an elder gentleman who witnessed the accident and fainted at the sight...) with one of the forks protruding out the centre of the young mans forehead!  He lived, but I bet he's pissed about getting "forked on his birthday".

Have a safe and happy long weekend, and for cryin' out loud...  be careful!
 

We'll be going double barrel all weekend long and hope to have the framing done this weekend.  For you contractor types out there...  try to keep in mind, each wall invokes a celebration of "achievement", so there's lots of beer involved (...so don't critique our speed...).  We're now calling on electrictions out there to come forward and become a member of the crew when electrical play makes its debut this week...  If you would like to help out with the wiring and you're certified, please let us know!  The pay will suck huge, but there will be a few beers in it for you and all the Abattoir's patrons will anoint your feet with rare oils while extracts for exotic plants are...  Never mind, we'll do it ourselves.  However...  If the beer and our gratitude's enough, drop us a note and let us know if you're free.

We've had a few complaints that people have filled out the registration form yet have not appeared on the BTM Listing.  Take note:  We've tested the script, it's working fine...  If you have filled out the form and your name's not in the listing, it's because we didn't get it!  Send us email instead with all the registration information and we'll add you.  Please remember, we cannot play favourites here, if you pay, you're in, if you haven't, you'll be bumped!  I'm just saying this so I don't get flak mail when all the spots are full and you've been pushed off the list by paying players.  There...  I've stressed it...  My contractual obligation's done.  Progress will continue this weekend on LAN Central, we'll keep you posted!
 

In other news, have you taken a peek at the three minute mini-movie called "405", it was being shown around at BTM19 and it's something you have to see!  (...It's on the Abattoir SuperFTP in a rare Large Format version...)  Watch as an American Airlines DC-10 lands atop a Jeep on an evacuated section of the 405 highway in L.A.  You'll need special Codecs to view it (...also in the Videos folder of the SuperFTP...).  Best of luck to those of you who've downloaded MediaPlayer 7 (...although you can install the drivers, MicroSloth insists it "knows better" and attempts to overwrite your drivers...  Gee, some things never change...)  You can grab the movie here and the special codecs here.  This short movie was done by two special effects guys (...Jeremy Hunt and Bruce Branit...) in their spare time using nothing more than their home computers, a digital camera and commercial software.  They did it for no reason other than "it needed doing".  The computer effects these two came up with are unreal to say the least, IDG.net even did a write-up on the two today.

Anyone looking for plans this Saturday!?  Care to come on out and join us for a Stag&Doe?  Grant Berry and Heather Lane are tying the knot and we're throwing a little Stag&Doe this Saturday at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Oakville...  You're encouraged to join us, it's a cheap $10 (...$98 value!..) and we understand there's beer.  See you there if you're coming!  (...Tickets are available at the door...)
 

Just a little advanced notice, I've been very under the weather the last couple days, so if I'm draggin' my ass at BTM19, you'll know why...  Go easy on me.