I don't know if this warrants a 9-1-1 call or what, but to this blog's readers here in Rockingham County, North Carolina:Be advised that a large black bear was spotted by Yours Truly on Vernon Road not far from Rockingham Community College earlier this evening.Yeah, I'm certain it was a bear. At first I wondered if it might be a large black dog instead. Until I saw its face and muzzle. It's a bear all right.It was acting a bit lethargic. Walking...
Monday, January 31, 2011
My thoughts about the situation in Egypt
It's late. Had a way long day. I'm tired. So I'll make this quick. Or as quick as I'm apt to be with this sort of thing...In a way Egypt is demonstrating why I was always against the Iraq War that began in 2003. And it's also demonstrating why the American government is never going to feel safe about pulling out of that country.Because once we do, Iraq is going to very quickly turn into what Egypt is becoming now.The uprising in Egypt began...
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Michelle Bradsher enters the blogosphere!
In case anyone's wondering where the list of links went to: I haven't forgotten about it. In fact it'll probably reappear sometime this week if I can find time to put it together anew. It's just something that I made a secondary priority during this blog's recent redesign. And I'm looking forward to spinning some traffic toward friends and accomplices who also maintain blogsome presence on the Intertubes :-)As it turns out, tonight I discovered...
Busy week ahead
Look gang, the next few days I'm gonna be swamped with stuff. Especially with the lead-up to opening night for Theatre Guild of Rockingham County's production of Gypsy. I'm not gonna have much time to entertain you, enlighten you and otherwise play around with your heads like I usually do.So here's something to tide you over until The Knight Shift resumes regular blogging. It's a YouTube clip that blurs the line between reality and imagination......
Friday, January 28, 2011
Twenty-five years ago today...
High FlightOh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Let's conduct a weather experiment!
Just for fun (or maybe not)...I have heard it said, since at least 1993, that if it thunders in the winter that it means snow is coming ten days later.The first time I was told that, it was by Dad in February of that year. Exactly ten days later we had "the Storm of the Century" blizzard.And every time since then that it has thundered during winter, we have had snow: if not precisely ten days later then very closely thenabouts.Well, we had thunder...
GYPSY: 10 days until Opening Night!
Y'know, it's incorrect to refer to this ethnic group as "Gypsy". The real term is "Romani". The reason they got tagged with the name "Gypsy" is 'cuz as they spread into Europe from their original home in the Indian subcontinent, the locals thought wrongly that they were Egyptian.So don't you think that "Roma Rose Lee" has a better ring to it? Or is that just me?Well anyhoo...Next...
Message on a church sign that I saw this weekend...
"Following Christ means to be a witness, not be a prosecutor".Very, very true. And the more that I've thought about it, the more I've appreciated how that is everything that it truly means to be a Christian.It is not us that the world should be seeing, but Christ within us. We will always fail. But He never fai...
Release trailer for DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. Yes, really.
On April 28th, 1997, video game studio 3D Realms announced that Duke Nukem Forever, the follow-up to its 1996 hit Duke Nukem 3-D, was in development.Fourteen years, hundreds of thousands of wasted man-hours, numerous rendering engines long gone obsolete, two or more full generations of console technology and a bankruptcy later, Gearbox Software - which picked up the pieces last year to try to make some sense of this mess - will be releasing Duke...
Monday, January 24, 2011
Bipolar as experienced by Kay Redfield Jamison
The series that I have recently begun, "Being Bipolar", is picking up some intense interest. I posted Part 2: "Sketching Uniquet" late last week. Meanwhile Part 1: "The Tale of the Two Chris Knights" has become the most-visited page on the blog over the past several days.During the weekend I made the decision that for the next few installments of the series at least, I am...
Third TRON movie gearing up already!
And before anyone asks, lifelong best friend Chad Austin and I are already planning our trip to the cinema to see this.But first, if you haven't already bought Daft Punk's electrifying soundtrack to Tron Legacy......then you really oughtta go to iTunes (where I bought it from) or buy it old-school physical media from a retailer and add it to your collection. In all seriousness,...
World running out of Internet (as we've known it)
Things could be about to get really interesting pretty soon...Sometimes around 4 a.m. on February 2nd - next Wednesday morning - the very last of the still-available IP addresses under the traditional IPv4 scheme will be allocated.And then the Internet as it has existed since IPv4 was established in 1977 will, for all intents and purposes, be running on empty."Who the hell knew how much address space we needed?" said Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer and...
Friday, January 21, 2011
BEING BIPOLAR, Part 2: Sketching Unquiet
This is the second installment of an ongoing series about living with bipolar disorder. It is well advised that if you have not done so already that you read Part 1: The Tale of the Two Chris Knights before proceeding with this chapter...There are two difficulties that arise when writing about bipolar disorder, as one who must live with and manage the condition.The first...
Physicists propose idea for "Time Teleportation"
For the past several weeks I've been telling my filmmaking partner "Weird" Ed about Primer: the indie sci-fi film from a few years ago and positivalutely the most genius movie about time travel that I've ever had the pleasure of watching.Well, it turns out that filmmaker Shane Carruth might be on to something...Two physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia have...
Blizzard stops, then allows "World of StarCraft" mod
Now this could be a story about copyright issues that may wind up having a very happy ending...It all starts with one Ryan Winzen, a 25-year old artist who claims to have no inclination toward video game programming but who has been creating custom maps for Blizzard's Warcraft and StarCraft games since he was 13.A few days ago Ryan sent shockwaves across the Intertubes when...
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Blackbeard's sword? Could be...
It's seen better days (in fact it had to be reconstructed from its separate pieces for this photo) but this gold-gilded sword hilt recently recovered from the site of the Queen Anne's Revenge off the coast of North Carolina is being thought of as possibly belonging to Captain Edward Morgan Teach... more infamously known as Blackbeard the Pirate.If so, it's probably not the...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
It's 2011's first pic of Lauryn!
At the moment I'm... working... through getting Part 2 of the Being Bipolar series finished (read Part 1 here if you haven't already). Not only that but also practicing my lines for Theatre Guild of Rockingham County's production of Gypsy. Along with a few other "irons in the fire" so to speak.So to make up for a dearth of new material these past few days, here is something...
