Tonight on Sci-Fi: The Doctor will witness the "Rise of the Cybermen"

"Le-let's cover up that noise... Uhhhh, give us Track Number Ninety.""It's happening again... I've seen them before.""Because it hurts.""Delete, delete, delete..."They haven't been seen by an American audience in 18 years.But tonight, as Doctor Who continues the second season on the Sci-Fi Channel since its revival, the Cybermen return, in the first of a two-part story that...

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Watch the school board candidates forum online

I don't like the way I looked during this thing. Had I spent a minute going to the restroom to look in the mirror I would have noticed how bad my hair looked. It didn't start out looking like that when I left for the forum: guess the wind tussled it a bit. And I had a comb with me for this sort of thing too. Going back yesterday to watch this from the TiVo at the station...

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Because I'm feeling so good after coming out of two candidates forums...

...I just got back from Wal-Mart where I treated myself to a Count Dooku Star Wars action figure :-)This is what I do to celebrate or otherwise mark small occassions: get a new Star Wars figure for the collection. I know, pretty silly and juvenile. What can I say: I'm a school board candidate who still has a lot of kid left in him. But I don't see anything wrong with that.Don't take life so completely seriously every second of your life. You...

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LIVE TONIGHT: Candidates Forum: Round 2

Well, here we go again. This time in living color.The second school board candidates forum starts tonight at 8 p.m., televised live from the studios of WGSR Star 39 (DISCLAIMER: I also work there as a master control technician and video producer).Because of the sheer number of candidates and because it really is a small studio, they are having to "stagger" the candidates throughout the two-hour event. The first four listed on the ballot will get...

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News articles about last night's candidates forum

Didn't see any TV cameras but the print media was there to cover last night's school board candidates forum. Here's the stories as I'm finding 'em...School board candidates fight clock - News & RecordTeachers sponsor forum for open seats - Eden Daily NewsHere's a clip from the Eden Daily News story...Panel members were asked if they believe the school board should have the authority to levy taxes. There were spirited responses."No," Knight said...

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This week's sign that the Apocalypse is upon us...

Chuck Norris is now an op-ed commentator for WorldNetDaily.And he's a pretty engaging writer. In his first column he addresses the "Chuck Norris facts" craze that's been on the Internet late...

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Well this night just keeps getting better and better...

Something just literally landed in my lap that I've spent the past twenty years looking for.One more key toward unlocking everythi...

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Snapshots from the field: putting out signs

Taken this past Friday afternoon by Lisa, while we were putting out signs. This was taken at the end of my aunt's driveway.They're starting to spread like fungus all across Rockingham County. And more will go up tomorrow...

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TONIGHT: Candidates Forum: Round 1

Right now I'm finishing up getting prepped for tonight's first public forum for school board candidates, being held between 6 and 8 at Rockingham Middle School and sponsored by the North Carolina Association of Educators. The task of the hour is polishing up my opening and closing statements. Every possible question that might be asked has been going through my brain during...

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200,000 visits

Remember the days when every time this blog reached another 10,000 visitors, that it was time to celebrate? Such an innocent and carefree time it was. I'd thought that it was going to make 60,000 by Thanksgiving: remember that it had a little over 54,000 hits less than a week ago. Well, in the past couple of hours The Knight Shift got its 200,000th visitor (the counter right now actually says 203,549). If it keeps this up the meter might be breaking...

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Bollywood "Thriller"

The Michael Jackson of the Indian subcontinent performs Bollywood's version of "Thriller"...Credit goes to Mark Childrey for this completely bizarre fi...

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"The Girl in the Fireplace": Tonight's DOCTOR WHO is some of the best recent TV ever

American fans of Doctor Who - the ones who haven't been downloading via torrent the newer episodes after they've run in Britain - are in for quite a treat tonight when Season 2 (or 28, like I've said before depending on whether you're reckoning this per the original series) continues on the Sci-Fi Channel. Tonight is when "The Girl in the Fireplace" broadcasts, and this is quite simply one of the most beautiful episodes of television that I can...

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Records smashed again: The Knight Shift's biggest day yet

Just before the midnight reset this blog's counter registered 61,718 visits in the 24-hour period that was Thursday October 19th. That's way more than the total number of visits in the past almost-three years since the blog first went up until Wednesday evening when this site got noticed by a few big outlets like Digg, Neatorama and the Coast to Coast with George Noory site. By the end of the day there had been 127,440 visits since inception......

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One Hundred Thousand

In the last little while (while I wasn't looking) this blog - a lot faster than I'd ever expected - hit the 100,000 visits mark. Right now it's showing 101,706 total hits and 35,984 since the daily counter reset at midnight this morning. And a little over 24 hours ago this place had registered about 54,000 total visits since I installed the counter almost three years ago.So this blog is now in the coveted Six-Figures Club. Yay!!! Let's celebrate!...

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Trailer for TORCHWOOD

This coming Sunday night the new sci-fi show Torchwood will debut on BBC Three over in Great Britain. This is the spin-off from Doctor Who that's been alluded to on that show since the end of Eccleston's season. Torchwood is going to feature that wacky Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) who accompanied the Ninth Doctor on a few adventures, this time stranded in modern-day England working with the ultra-secret Torchwood Institute. I've been...

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Highest-traffic day in The Knight Shift history! This blog makes the front page of Coast to Coast and Digg!

I am... seriously wog-boggled by this day.At 3:30 PM today I reported that 1,724 people had visited this blog since midnight: way over the usual number of about a hundred visits to the site daily.Well, it's now a little before midnight and the needle not only got pegged, it tore completely off the dashboard.With about a half-hour before midnight to go, this site has registered...

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The second campaign commercial

It started airing about an hour ago. There may be one more commercial still to come before the next three weeks are ov...

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