Seven days since the annual Christmas post. I can't remember the last time I was away from this blog for so long with absolutely nothing on the agenda. Also can't say that I didn't enjoy every bit of it :-)Hope you and yours have been having a wonderful holiday season!(By the way, Star Trek rocks on Blu-ray! Yah thanks to Dad I have finally crossed that threshold ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Merry Christmas 2009
As happens every year here at The Knight Shift (or I try to anyway), I'm going to step away from the blog for a few days, and give myself a break to celebrate Christmas with family and friends. And this'll be the first serious break that I've given myself in... maybe more than a year. So for the next few days, expect the proprietor of this humble lil' blog to be off the grid.(However I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't come back in the next...
Chris reviews AVATAR
Last night I saw Avatar for the second time. And if you are set to watch this movie, I can't but recommend that you consider seeing it more than once also. Not because James Cameron has pushed so many pretty pixels that this really is the most visually astonishing film made to date, but also because in spite of whatever you may have heard: there is a hell of a good story...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Politics and street gangs
The only difference between Democrats and Republicans fighting and urban gangs is that the Bloods 'n Crips hashing it out never costs the taxpayer billions of dolla...
How DUKE NUKEM FOREVER imploded
Clive Thompson at Wired has written an exhaustively-researched article that should give every software developer and game publisher pause: the twelve-year development cycle that plagued Duke Nukem Forever before the plug was finally pulled on the project this past spring. The tale Thompson relates is one rife with technical obsession, corporate money and motion-captured strippers...
Monday, December 21, 2009
Yah I finally saw AVATAR today
And it was in digital 3-D too, which if at all possible is very sincerely the best way to watch this movie.As for what I thought of Avatar......I can't remember the last movie that left me feeling so many shades of conflicted.I'm going to see it again tomorrow night with friend and fellow blogger Steven Glaspie. Between now and then I'm thinking enough of it will "sink in" and maybe I can absorb the story as much as I've already beheld the astonishing...
AGAIN?! Looks like I'll be fighting Comcast now...
So I got back from a delightful day of various and sundry stuff (including finally seeing Avatar, review or something coming soon) and I started catching up on an inordinate amount of stuff that had piled up in my absence.Well, there were two e-mails from YouTube in the e-mail account I use for KWerky Productions. And both of them said that the clip I had posted two years ago of E!'s The Soup had been yanked for "copyright infringement".It's an...
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Dude mounts rocket launchers onto his motorcycle
This guy has apparently watched Megaforce too many times for his own good...As cool as that looks, I can't help but think that a bike-mounted minigun like the one at the end of the Machete faux trailer would be much more useful/intimidati...
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Congrats to my cousin Lauryn for graduating college!
My cousin Lauryn got her college sheepskin today! Always cause for celebration when one of our clan gets a higher education :-)(That, and because the last time I posted her photo and said that all the women in my family are this beautiful, I literally got over a dozen e-mails asking if Lauryn was taken and if not "where does she live please!?" So I'm curious as to what will...
7 historical figures who were absurdly hard to kill
They were seven of the most famous (and notorious) men in history. And not one of them went gently into that good night. As a matter of fact, they all had some of the most hardcore awesome deaths ever recorded. Like Blackbeard (shown at right in his final battle). By the way, here in the Tarheel State there's a longstanding legend that Blackbeard's skull has been gilded...
First snow of the season has finished falling
There was about 5 or 6 inches of the white stuff here at my place in Reidsville, North Carolina. To the very best of my recollection this is the biggest snowfall this early in the season in any recent memory. I mean, hey it's still autumn, at least for another day or so anyway.Meanwhile the computer models are still calling for more snow come later this coming week. Like, around December 24th or so.If that happens, it'll be the third White Christmas...
Friday, December 18, 2009
About 3 inches of snow so far...
...and it's not a fit night to be out and about if you can help it.So I'm stayin' in, cooking pizza and watching some good movies for a snowbound evening.I'm thinking The Shining, Misery, and The Thing ...
The most horrific news story I have read all year
A Campbell County, Virginia woman gave birth and smothered her newborn child to death. But she won't face murder charges because the umbilical cord was not yet cut so legally it's not murder but abortion.Officials say that the loophole in the law keeps them from pursuing charges.God help us.Read the story here at WSLS if you have the heart for ...
Jack Bauer interrogates Santa Claus
I'm not much of a 24 fan, but this is darned funny!Rebel Christmas Card gets the credit for this hilarious mash...
Chuck Baldwin sez: Rage against federal government ain't good enough
Chuck Baldwin - the man who I voted for President in the 2008 election (and not Obama or McCain, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaaaaahhh) - has published an EXCELLENT op-ed piece on his website about why the anger of many Americans toward Washington is wildly misplaced. Baldwin recommends instead re-focusing our energies on the states, and reasserting our Tenth Amendment rights.Here's a hearty morsel of Rev. Baldwin's fine essay...You see, the wizards in...
Best man rigs newlywed friend's bed to Twitter during sex
Yeah it's a slow news day apparently.Read the wonderfully lurid technical details about the prank here.And if you are interested in this kind of... stuff... click here to follow the Twitter feed straight from the newlyweds' b...
