9:31 p.m. EST: One of the announcers has just said that this game "is over" already, with 7 and a half minutes left in just the first half! Kansas 38 and UNC 12.Someone who shall remain anonymous has told me that Davidson did better against Kansas than the Tarheels are doing tonight.9:44 p.m. EST: 40-19, Jayhawks still in the lead with just over 3 and a half minutes in the first half. Carolina is starting to show some pepper here.9:51 p.m. EST:...
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Death by blogging in the digital sweatshop
The New York Times has published an interesting piece about blog-related stress. The drive to constantly publish new material for lucrative gain has been enough to already cause serious medical problems and even death among some bloggers.That just ain't healthy, by any measure.Many years ago (like when I was a teenager) I had a friend who told me something that's become so prophetic, it's absolutely frightening in its accuracy: the "information...
Internet running out of IP addresses
Abby Prince of WebProNews has filed a fascinating story, albeit one with significant ramifications, about the fast-evaporating pool of available Internet Protocol (IP) numbers. Ever since the Internet's inception the computers connected to it have been given addresses under the original IP4 scheme. But with the increase of devices that use the Internet combined with the number of developing countries that are beginning to build up their information...
Friday, April 04, 2008
25 years after his greatest triumph, a visit to Jimmy V's final rest
"Trees will tap dance, elephants will ride in the Indianapolis 500, and Orson Wells will skip breakfast, lunch, and dinner before State finds a way to beat Houston."-- Dave Kindredwriter for The Washington PostApril 4th, 1983It became, and remains to this day, the defining sports moment of the modern era.It was twenty-five years ago tonight, on April 4th, 1983, that North...
Spike drives home the complete Star Wars saga starting tonight
Basic cable television network Spike - formerly known as "Spike TV", formerly known as "The New TNN", formerly known as "The National Network", formerly known as "TNN", formerly known as "The Nashville Network" a Gaylord Production from Opryland USA, "That's all!" (five hundred points to whoever can tell what that's a reference to) - starts running ALL SIX MOVIES of the Star Wars saga, in their proper chronological order, beginning tonight at 8 p.m....
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Baptist preacher on WPIP "conservative Christian" radio claims Obama is "Antichrist" and going to Hell
I've a nasty suspicion that this is only a taste of what's barreling toward us...So I was headed west down I-40 from a day trip to Raleigh (which I'll be posting about tomorrow) this afternoon and around Burlington, I started flicking through radio stations.And as I was going across the AM dial just after 5 p.m. I happened to catch some pastor preaching with all due exuberance and conviction that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is "the...
Moonshine legend Popcorn Sutton pleads guilty, could get hit with 15-year sentence by evil revenuers
World-renowned moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton (shown here with an "outlaw" of another sort, country legend Willie Nelson) is facing a possible 15-year prison sentence and a fine of a half-million dollars after pleading guilty in federal court in Tennessee today for practicing the fine art of "makin' likker".A few weeks ago the revenuers busted Popcorn's "white lightning"...
Teacher-produced "Star Wars" movies helping students prepare for testing
WGAL in Lancaster, Pennsylvania has a great story about teachers there who have made a series of Star Wars-inspired short films designed to help local students prepare for their state standardized tests. The PSSA Wars videos, offering tips on how to handle the critical exams, feature such characters as "Duke Skywriter" and "Math Solo" and even include the classic Star Wars...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Parachute is NOT Cooper's, says FBI
Remember that parachute that was found in the state of Washington last week, that many were speculating might have belonged to notorious skyjacker Dan Cooper (more often known as D.B. Cooper, but I've always called him by the name he used for his ticket)? The discovery aroused a lot of memories about the guy and spawned even more theories about what might have happened to him. Now the FBI is saying that the parachute is NOT Cooper's. It's not...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Ric Flair retires
"To be the man, you've got to beat the man, and I'm the Man!""Hey baby! Do you want to ride Space Mountain?""WHOOOOOO!!!"Regardless of what you think of pro wrestling, he did survive a plane crash with a broken back and was told he'd never wrestle again. That was in 1974. He proved the doctors wrong and not only stayed active in one of the most physically demanding of spectator...
'Fess-up time for today's April Fools prank
Just to be clear on some things...1. There is no such thing as the U.S. Department of Public Health.2. Reidsville does not have a deputy mayor.3. Irving "Bud" Wombler is a fictitious character that I made up this morning.4. Rockingham Regional Medical Center only exists in my mind, and will likely never be built in the Midway area.5. Fritz Hippler was a real-life filmmaker who ran the Film Department of the Propaganda Ministry under Joseph Goebbels...
EXCLUSIVE: Rockingham County, per federal mandate, to ban ALL tobacco farming and products
EDIT 9:50 p.m. EST 04/01/2008: Click here for a MAJOR BREAKING UPDATE regarding this news story!Details about this will soon be released to the press via regular channels, but here is what The Knight Shift has learned...Rockingham County, North Carolina - the #1 tobacco-producing region in the entire country - will soon become the first 100% tobacco-free area in the United...
Monday, March 31, 2008
More classic SESAME STREET: "Four People Fooled!"
It's been awhile since I've posted some vintage Sesame Street clips. Here's a short one, but it's ranks up there as one of the all-time greats: Ernie and a little blue "Anything Muppet" in "Four People Foole...
So today's my birthday...
How old am I? Heh-heh, well, I'm not quite halfway to 70. Not yet anyway.But it's funny: in the past two weeks I have been mistaken for a college kid twice and a high school student once! Lord only knows how much longer that will last.I wrote here last year about why I don't like having a birthday, and it has nothing to do with "getting older" at all. That's still something that time hasn't fully shaken off of me. For some people, birthdays...
Michael Giacchino talks about release of "Roar!" overture from CLOVERFIELD
Not long after Cloverfield came out in January (read my review here) this blog received word from a reliable source (and still a reliable one in spite of things) that Michael Giacchino's "Roar!", the one bit of original music score for that movie, was going to be release "soon". Obviously this did not happen and we are still waiting for it.Well today Ain't It Cool News is pointing everyone to a video at Film Score Monthly Online wherein Giacchino...
New Facebook group: "I'm NOT Voting For ANY Candidate Who Runs A Negative Ad!"
This morning I started a new group on Facebook. It's called: "I'm NOT Voting For ANY Candidate Who Runs A Negative Ad!"It's exactly what it sounds like: a group for people who are sick and tired of negative campaign commercials from political candidates.The genesis for it came this morning, as I watched a seemingly non-stop torrent of commercials from this state's gubernatorial candidates. I can't recall any of the ads having anything upbeat and...
Eat your heart out Bobby Flay!
This pic of Richard Moore's grandson Jack is way too cute to not share with others...On Richard's site, that pic links to the website for My Home Kitchen, hosted by Richard's wife Debbie and broadcast locally on WGSR Star 39. Check it out for recipes for some good ea...
