 Okay,
Folks... The wait is over! We’ve been pounded with messages
asking for the “inside scoop” on BTM27’s
date… Like we said, we’re on Summer Break till the Fall. Well,
it’s Fall. We’ve thrown the magic dart at the calendar and BTM27
“Four Will Fall” Edition will be held in a
short three weeks on October 20th!
We’ve got a lot to look forward to as well, be sure to get your copy of
Return
to Castle Wolfenstein from either FilePlanet,
or from your Abattoir Personal Server
(…sorry FilePlanet, but we’ve been doing this for a while too! <GriN!>..)
Yes, you heard right, the Abattoir SuperFTP+
is back (…actually, it never left…) Quick note about the SuperFTP+,
if your old account does not exist, just email
me or ICQ me (2345853) with your log-in and password, we’ll have you
back up with an account in minutes! (…Yes, I’ve reloaded ICQ at
last, so I’m online and bitchable to almost 24/7 again…) We’ve
set-up some nice remote admin features so we’ll be able to restore your
SuperFTP+
account within minutes if it’s ICQ you contact me through. If you
don’t have an account and want on now, we’ve also set-up a “limited access”
public log-on you can use, just get the SuperFTP’s
address from the Abattoir’s main page
and use “guest” as your log-on and “newbie” as your password (…again,
this is a limited access general public account…)
We’re also very pleased to announce that Gamespy Industries has picked us up as a sponsor for this BTM! I don’t need to tell you who Gamespy is (…I would hope!..) but we’ve been in contact and the good folks at Gamespy have provided us Five Lifetime Registration Keys for Gamespy Arcade! (…$20 each, that’s US bucks too, so that’s like, One Million Dollars Canadian!..) and we’ll be givin’em out at BTM27! One will be a random Door Prize as usual, but the other four you’ll have to fight for! Details to come (…yes, it will be teams in Wolfenstein probably… No, it will not be Jell-O wrestling…) If you’ve not already done so, get over to Gamespy and grab your free copy of Gamespy Arcade now! Of
course, there’s always the news of tonight’s premier of “Enterprise”…
If you’re at all a Trekker and want to join us tonight at the Abattoir
for the premier, just pop on by, check your phaser at the door and come
in… Wings are on us! (…Borg need not attend…)
 What
week this has turned out to be… Regardless, I’m quite sure there’s
much more to come. Case in point, not more than a couple of hours
after air travel was resumed (…in limited capacity…) more terrorists
were intercepted in two separate airports attempting a repeat air show
in the US. I consider myself somewhat affluent with respect to putting
pen to paper and relaying my feelings, but words just fail me when I attempt
to convey my thoughts on the happenings of this week. The conflicting
emotions of grief, disbelief, disgrace and despair all tempered with anger,
disgust and hatred breed thoughts of revenge… There’s little wonder
people develop racists tendencies, especially in light of Tuesday’s horrific
tragedy. We have to all remember that a man is a man no matter what
the colour, race or religion, and guilt by association makes you and I
no better than the monsters who’ve perpetrated this abomination on humanity.
As flags fly at half-mast all over the free World, we’re asking for a show
of union and support on this our day of grieving… All over our country
people are asked to take a moment from their evening, step out on your
porch at 7:00pm tonight and light a candle in remembrance of all those
who’ve parished and those who bravely made the ultimate sacrifice in aid
of their fellow man. Stories of heroism from the firefighters and
police, who in face of unreal danger, placed their own lives on the line
to save complete strangers, right down to the civilians who voted on flight
93 to overpower their captors in mid-air and crashed their plane in Somerset,
Pennsylvania after hearing of the Trade Center attacks and knowing this
was no ordinary ‘hijacking’. They knew their lives could be over
and were hell bent to prevent their plane from taking countless innocent
lives. Heroes, all of them.
Finding myself groping for words, I can only say our thoughts are with you all in this most trying time, those of us ‘removed’ from the carnage can only imagine the pain the victims families must be feeling. It’s enlightening at the same time to see how strangers and nations have joined arms in a union of support over this, gives one hope that humanity is not totally doomed. This week has left a lump in my throat I just can't seem to get rid of. What
can I do? Much more than you think… The obvious is the desperate
need for blood, please see the following links and help in any way you
can.
 Unreal!!
Here I was about to do a LAN Minutes UpDate
and thought I had a decent amount of news to relay then THIS
happens!! There’s no other way to say this other than to conclude
the US is basically under attack!
The World Trade Center
in New York City have been rammed by two planes
18 minutes apart… After the first devastating explosion in Tower
One at around 8:45am, coverage began live, while coverage was underway,
a second plane, and we’re not talking a Cessna circled and rammed into
the second tower… Now we’re getting breaking news another plane has
rammed the Pentagon.
The White House is being evacuated as I type this. There’s report’s
there’s a white jet that’s circling the White House (…classically a
no-fly zone…) The Treasury building along with many other government
and financial institutions are being evacuated. I wish I had a fatter
pipe to the Internet here at work, but I don’t think it would make much
difference considering all servers from ctvnews.com
and cnn.com are
all plugged and we’re receiving nothing but HTTP 500 Errors. We’ve
managed to get this one shot!
Needless
to say, the Abattoir’s
not a news center, so you best get glued to your TVs and catch the largest
attack on American soil that’s ever taken place… All I can say is
this is NOT good! A devastating and very well coordinated multiple
attack, first on the World Trade Center where over 44,000 people work,
now the Pentagon, what’s next? Now we're told the south tower of
the Trade Center has partially collapsed!! 1,300ft tall! Holy
shit! We're getting word the plane that hit the Trade Tower first
was a 767, but we're awaiting confirmation. Not good... Not
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