A few days ago I posted about "Weird Al" Yankovic makng the first single from his upcoming "Straight Outta Lynwood" album available as a free download on his Myspace page. That file of "Don't Download This Song" was 92 kbps in rate. Well not many people may know this but in the past few days Al has also put up DontDownloadThisSong.com and there's a much higher-quality version of the song (at 160 kbps) available for download there. I recommend...
Friday, August 25, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
It's the Return of the Spinning Head!
Here's a real blast from the past that I found tucked away on a seldom-used hard drive tonight...I made that all the way back in 1998! Remember how a long time ago when we didn't have blogs or Myspace, how we made our own personal homepages? Yeah, a bygone era to be sure. Well when "Weird" Ed and I were roomies at Elon, I had him help me make this graphic for my homepage....
Making a contribution to the Knight for School Board 2006 campaign
I'm now three weeks into my campaign for school board. And if you would like to help out in any way, I would certainly appreciate the support. Just saying "good luck" or sending a prayer this way would help plenty. But I would certainly also appreciate any monetary support that could come this way.So if you've read my campaign website or you know enough about me already...
Chad gives it a "tri"
A few weeks ago my life-long friend Chad (who you might remember for his stunning portrayal of George Lucas in Forcery) did something he's never done before: competed in a triathlon. That's when you swim a distance, then bike a long way and then run the rest of the race. Chad's a veteran of two full-blown marathons already and several half-marathons, and he was one of the...
Testing, pay no attention
P.S. the above photo is that of Vinnie Lunesta, the accountant at WGSR-Star 39 (the TV station I work at). This was from the evening Lunesta went on Monday Night Live and explained how the show had given away more than $400,000 in prizes.(I'm using the "beta" version of the new Blogger stuff... I had to test this with something :-P...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
A hearty hello to everyone from the TAPS Forum!
The past few days or so my blog's meter has been going crazy with hits, and yesterday I found out why: I'm getting a LOT of visitors from the TAPS Forum! Some of you might remember my post last October about the best ghost photographs ever taken. Well the good folks on the TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society, the same outfit you see on Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters) boards...
Monday, August 21, 2006
I was the first fan ever to listen to Weird Al's new song!!
Well like I wrote about this afternoon, a few minutes ago "Weird Al" Yankovic posted the first single from his new album Straight Outta Lynwood on on his Myspace page. And ironically it's titled "Don't Download This Song". It's HILARIOUS!! And wonder of wonders: I was the very first fan to post on Al's Myspace page that I was listening to it!! Don't believe it? Here's the link to where's it at on his comments page (must be logged-in to Myspace...
Joe Rosenthal passes away: WWII photographer shot most famous image of the war
On February 23rd, 1945, after four days of fighting on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima, United States Marines from the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division took the high ground on Mount Suribachi. There had been a flag-raising atop the hill earlier that day but it was then taken down because it was thought too small. A short while later six servicemen began raising a much...
TONIGHT: First single from new Weird Al CD will be ANOTHER free download!
It was announced about two weeks ago that tonight "Weird Al" Yankovic will release the first single from his new upcoming album Straight Outta Lynwood on his official Myspace page. The upload is scheduled for 6 p.m. Pacific/9 p.m. Eastern and yes, it will be another free MP3 download like he did with "You're Pitiful" a few months ago. No idea which song from the CD this is going to be but rumor is that this might be "White and Nerdy": Weird Al's...
Campaign issues: The theory of "Intelligent Design"
On the website for my school board campaign there's a page called "Qualities and Qualifications". Up 'til earlier today on the part where I talk about being a Christian - which I believe anyone who's considering voting for me should bear in mind before they cast their ballot - there was a brief blurb about "intelligent design" theory. I had written this:"... I have issues with the teaching of "intelligent design" in the public schools. If anyone...
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Plight of the Bumblebee: the 'bots in TRANSFORMERS announced
Back in May I posted my list of which Autobots and Decepticons should be in the live-action Transformers movie due out next July. Well this past Friday the writers of the movie did an online "press conference". And considering that they're making some departures from "old school" Generation 1 Transformers, the Autobots and Decepticons we'll be seeing are pretty close to...
"Take me out to the ballgame..."
This past Friday night Lisa and I did something that I haven't done in over twenty years: we went to a real live baseball game. It was the Greensboro Grasshoppers at home in First Horizon Park against the Lexington Legends.And we had a really darned good time! The staff at the park really went all-out to give the eight-thousand-some in attendance some lively entertainment....
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Once again, sensationalism overwhelms in Ramsey case
It was about 5 this afternoon that we got word at the station that there had finally been an arrest in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. We wound up going to breaking news around 5:30 and that's practically all that was talked about for the next 45 minutes.I guess maybe local interest (I'm writing from north-central North Carolina in case anyone's ever wondered where I am geographically) in the Ramsey case has something to do with the Short family...
This week's sign that the Apocalypse is upon us...
I want a Mac.That is the very first time in my life that I've found myself lusting after one of Apple's computers. And after going so long calling them "Macin-craps" too. But, it's true: I would love to have a Mac computer.Now, I am and always will be, I guess, a Windows user. Ever since Windows 3.1 well over ten years ago. For me, it's just plain fun to get into the guts of Windows and tinker with stuff, the way we used to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
50,000
A few minutes ago I went to this blog to check on something and noticed the meter...The Knight Shift has now hit fifty thousand visitors! Not the most visits I've ever seen for a blog - heck the Drudge Report gets a few million a day - but for a humble little blog like it is, it's a pretty neat milestone to have reached. Thanks to everyone who helped it achieve th...
Monday, August 14, 2006
U.S. government sends Blade Runners to look for Replicants at Knoxville airport
Don't you just hate it when real life starts to imitate the movie Blade Runner too much?Here's the story from the Wall Street Journal:Which Travelers Have 'Hostile Intent'? Biometric Device May Have the AnswerBy JONATHAN KARP and LAURA MECKLERAugust 14, 2006At airport security checkpoints in Knoxville, Tenn. this summer, scores of departing passengers were chosen to step behind...
Peter the YouTuber gaining a devoted following
A few days ago I posted a YouTube video featuring a 70-ish man making some "geriatric gripes and grumbles". Well in the past week or so since that first video, which he titled "first try", Peter - aka "geriatric1927" - has gained a massive following especially from the younger crowd that dominates YouTube. He's now posted eight videos of himself so far. He talks about growing...
