"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."-- Chief Joseph, 1877I have suffered from severe depression for more than ten years. I have fought it as hard as I possibly can and it hasn't been enough. It has cost me dear friends, potentially wonderful opportunities, and worst of all it has cost me the wife who I loved and held precious more than anyone else that has ever...
Monday, October 04, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
An apology
To those who I have hurt over many years, I am sorry. Please forgive me.This blog is on hold for the foreseeable futu...
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
On God and repentance...
God has never desired for us to change a thing about our habits or our lifestyle. But He does desire for us to have a change of heart.If this much is chosen, then everything else follows natural...
Monday, September 06, 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Bev Perdue - AKA "Worst Governor EVER" - suspends gun rights STATEWIDE ahead of Hurrican Earl (what the?!?)
Just got the word from Matt Mittan that North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue - also known on this blog as "Worst Governor EVER!" - has suspended the rights of North Carolina residents to "to use or carry firearms outside their premises" during the state of emergency declared for Hurricane Earl, currently taking aim at our coast.Here's what really raised my eyebrows: this is apparently a STATEWIDE suspension, and not merely along the North Carolina...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Music video: "Rip It Up" by Death Proof!
Hey y'all, been a few days since an update. All that can be said at the moment is that I've got a lot of irons in the fire, so to speak :-)Here, maybe this'll make up for it. My good friend and brother in Christ (not to mention fellow Star Wars ubergeek) Joshua Ausley shot, edited and produced this head-slammingly rockalicious music video for a band called Death Proof out of our very own Greensboro, North Carolina!Behold the pure awesome that is...
Saturday, August 28, 2010
A message to Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and the "Restoring Honor" rally
Dear Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and attendees of today's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington D.C.:America does not need a "religious rebirth". America and her people do need to experience genuine contrition before God. And the two are absolutely NOT the same.Honor is good. But humility is far better.sincerely,
Chris Kni...
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans five years ago
Five years ago tonight was when Hurricane Katrina roared ashore and beat the city of New Orleans to within an inch of its life. The photo is a now-famous one taken of the storm surge as Katrina made landfall.Katrina started out life on August 23rd, 2005 as a tropical system in the southeastern Bahamas. It did substantial damage and caused a number of deaths as it went across...
Friday, August 27, 2010
It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man... in LEGO!
When you've got a massive amount of LEGO bricks and inspiration from one of the greatest comedy movies of all time... who ya gonna call?!?That is absolutely insanely AWESOME!! And if you want more, GeekTyrant has this and another version of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man scene from Ghostbusters recreated in LE...
Elvis spotted at Sheetz in Eden, North Carolina this evening
I wasn't going to make a blog post this late but I was still up working on stuff and this report came from a longtime trusted source. And as this blog has become one of - if not the most - viewed and respected sources of reliable information about Rockingham County matters, I would be remiss in my duties if I did not pass along the following...The title pretty much says it all: Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll who allegedly died in 1977,...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Some Thursday evening theology...
God will always take us just as we are, and if we let Him then He will always make us more than we we...
What do they know that I don't?
For the past week or so, I have noticed that The Knight Shift is receiving an inordinately high number of visits from law firms.All of them are coming in through the "front door" (the blog's main URL at theknightshift.blogspot.com), not at any one particular post. And it's not just been legal firms in North Carolina. If anything visits from law firms in my own home state are being vastly outnumbered by visits from across the country: places like...
Dude gets shot in head... and doesn't find out 'til 5 years later!
Robert Chojecki, a fella out of Herne, Germany, went to his doctor because he had been suffering severe headaches for a year and didn't know why.So his physician took some x-rays of Chojecki's head... and found a bullet nestled between his skin and his skull.It had been there for five years. At the time Chojecki, now 35, thought that he had either bumped his head or been...
Told y'all this was coming: glasses-free 3D television!
Two months ago I discussed some reasons why I wasn't particularly led to jump aboard the 3D television fad just yet. The most prominent among them was my understanding that we could fairly soon expect 3D teevee technology that worked without those clunky glasses (which many are now saying not only induce headaches but are just a plain ol' nuisance to deal with).Welcome to the future.Toshiba is set to be the first manufacturer to roll out glasses-free...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Got the LOST Complete Collection Blu-ray set today!
Am enjoying it right now. This is by far the most intimidating behemoth of a box set that I have ever added to my personal library. I mean, you not only get a whole heapin' bunch of Blu-ray discs (or DVD discs if that is still your flavor) but also a touchy-feely relief map of the Island, a Senet board with black and white playing pieces, a cryptic note, and an even more mysterious DHARMA Initiative pen-sized dark light that can be used to illuminate...
Monday, August 23, 2010
Three reasons why "the mosque" should be built
Personally, I find the "mosque at Ground Zero" - the Islamic worship center that is being planned for construction not far away from where the two towers of the World Trade Center once stood - to be as big a "non-issue" as there's been in recent memory. It, like too many other things, is a distraction from matters that are of more dire priority.So I honestly haven't given the issue much thought until someone over the weekend - and a devout Christian,...
