OCTOBER 2001 MINUTES ARCHIVE
 Well
with all that’s been happening in the world, it’s finally catching up to
me and taking a toll… Last night I just couldn’t sleep! I was
tossing and turning, kept waking up in the middle of the night. At
3am I sat up in bed suddenly screaming, covered in a cold sweat.
Yes, I’m talking about the official release of Microsoft
Windows XP!
I just had to run out and grab my copy of WinXP Professional today before they were all gone forever <GriN!>, I can just see Bill Gates sitting at Microsoft Central Control watching the Registration Hit Counter on his big screen plasma, cha-ching itself to death as droves of troglodytes pound the new OS into their systems and it echoes its pings back to the Mother Ship notifying them of yet another catch of over $320.00 to add to his bulging account. Needless to say, I’m writing this LAN Minutes UpDateprior to the big C:\>FORMAT C: command, so if you don’t hear from me again, the MeatCAM goes offline, the SuperFTP+ folds in on itself, and all the Game Servers disappear from Gamespy, you know what happened. Just a quick thanks to the Abattoir’s Clean-Up Crew, I neglected to acknowledge the awesome job they did at BTM27. Cam (CorpsE) Smith and Evan (NeXXuS) Smith both did the set-up and an unreal teardown (…which even included sweeping the garage of all things!..) Thanks guys, that was most appreciated! I feel like an ass forgetting to mention it! Oh yeah, did I mention the date’s been set for BTM28 “Jingle-Balls” Edition!? For those out there that had a “problem” understanding the whole date issue and just in case the UpDate below is still confusing for you… IT’S ON DECEMBER 15TH,
2001
We
would also like to make the BTMs
a little “easier” on some of the Folks out there… It would appear
that after registration, several persons seemed to have an incredible amount
of difficulty remembering the correct date of the actual event to
which they’ve signed-up for and missed the entire BTM
altogether. If this was surgery and you missed it, the pending results
could be horrific. Just so this doesn’t happen again, allow me to
take a moment of your time to demonstrate some of the great features here
at the Abattoir
that we’ve put together over the years that can aid you in remembering
and/or finding the actual date the upcoming BTM
lands on. Please refer to this handy chart below: 
If all else fails and you’re still unclear if the event is actually approaching, please feel free to contact myself, or any other Abattoir Staff member, we would be happy to come to your house and paint the date on your garage door for you. Having
said all that… Some of the “quicker” Abattoir
readers may have noticed that as of this writing of the LAN
Minutes, the above aforementioned logo bar
has indeed altered its appearance yet again (…this happens soon after
a BTM
has finished…). You might want to
investigate further. Game On! (…for some anyway…)
 We’re
a day away now, I can almost hear the roar of the subwoofers…
Although it took me over 30 minutes to get into my HIV
Suit and dawn my rubber
gloves, then another 10 minutes to track down
some fresh batteries for my filter vented
air hood, I finally got dressed and opened
my mail today… Is this Anthrax crap going to end any time soon?
I did get a piece of paper handed to me today at work with two tiny trails
of dots running all over it and an image of an Ant at the end, the letter
said “Careful, this paper is covered in Ant Trax” (…cute…).
Again, we still
have a couple ports free if you’re in the mood to recruit for BTM27,
we’re already a full house, but let’s get that elbow space filled!
Catch you “Early-Bird”
folks tomorrow evening! Don’t forget, the Leaf’s take on the Canucks
tonight in a late showing game, doors are open if you wish to join us!
 Well
we’re finally here! BTM
Week is upon us and we’re almost full (…even with our expanded ports…)
If you know anyone who would enjoy a romp at the Abattoir
this weekend, give’em a poke and sign them up, there's still a couple ports
open! We’re still taking suggestions on what game to play for the
Gamespy
Arcade Registration Keys, feel free to drop
us a note if you have a suggestion.
Don’t forget, it’s also Hockey time! We watch every game at the Abattoir so consider it an open invite if you want to join us for any of the Leaf’s games, the Media Room has plenty of couch space and there's Wings for everyone! Don’t forget to check out “Game On”, an Abattoir Portal Site created by our own CorpsE! Now that our WebServer is up and happy, you can get at the Abattoir Portals Here! Want to put a site up for free? Drop us a note and we’ll set you up! To
avoid any “lag” this weekend, we ask again that you have all your
games updated and ready, also note, we will (…come hell nor Taliban…)
be playing some Half-Life
too, so make sure you’re all patched-up and good to go. |
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"Bringing people together... so you can blow them apart!" |
After
the smoke cleared and the time limit expired, we had our triumphant 4 standing
atop the heap, yes, I was one of them! (…Geez, I finally won something
at a BTM!
Cool!..) Our winners in the battle
for Gamespy Arcade Registration Keys were: Karl (
We
personally find this system to be helpful and informative, however, as
that’s not quite enough, we’ve also included a handy “BTM”
page which can be viewed at any time. On this page, the date
is stated in several positions, but most notably, in large letters above
the Registration Table. (…Click 
We’ve
managed to acquire two massive 24 socket power bars for the main tables
in LAN Central,
we’re hoping this will stop people from “daisy-chaining” their power strips
together and causing mid-game blowouts, so look for them when you set-up!
