Here's the just-released music video for "Polka Face", the medley from "Weird Al" Yankovic's latest album Alpocalypse! And with it, Al has achieved something that to the best of my knowledge has never been done before by any musical performance artist: producing a music video for EVERY track from a single album!Congrats Al! And the "Polka Face" video is hilarious!! ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
WING COMMANDER III: HEART OF THE TIGER now being sold on GOG.com!
This is a game that I've been waiting since the autumn of 1994 to play! Seriously. I didn't have a rig powerful enough at the time to justify getting it. And during the past decade and a half the only way to get it was to pay ridiculously high prices on eBay for the Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga box set that put the first three games into one package for post-DOS PCs.It's...
Testing a theory
This afternoon, September 26th 2011, I am stating that there is a strong possibility of a moderate to severe earthquake occurring during the next few weeks.Don't know where. The theory I've been developing ain't that refined yet.However, I will note that during this past year I have made such "predictions" (though I'd rather find a better word for it) among friends, and every time there has been some significant seismic activity: from the Tokyo...
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Over-the-counter asthma inhalers banned after December 31st
Did Armstrong Pharmaceutical not pay enough kickback to President Obama's campaign?Well, I had to wonder that, given that the federal government is BANNING Primatene Mist from being sold after this coming December 31st! If you're an asthma sufferer, you're gonna have to get a doctor's prescription in order to purchase an inhaler that doesn't use a CFC agent as its propellant.Yeah you're inferring correctly, Dear Reader: the Environmental Protection...
Lightspeed limit broken by neutrinos, reports CERN
Those clever boffins (as our British brethren love to call such technical folk) at CERN in Switzerland have really made a mess of things this time: they've recorded neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light.If their determinations hold up, then a whole lotta physics is gonna have to be overhauled. Einstein held that the speed of light in a vacuum was an immutable,...
Friday, September 23, 2011
In the wee hours of this morning, I finished GEARS OF WAR 3
It's taken me twelve hours to mull things over about it.So here's what I'm gonna say about it...Darn you Cliff Bleszinski!! Because of you and your team at Epic Games, you made this grown dude cry harder than I have because of any work of art in... maybe ever.That... was effective. The entire whole heapin' thing. I mean the complete Gears Of War experience: from Dom breaking Marcus out of prison in the very first scene of the first game, through...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
A theological thought or two this evening
God is not a bureaucrat.Salvation does not derive from procedu...
Been playing GEARS OF WAR 3
I got it at the local GameStop at midnight yesterday morning/late Monday night. Got an hour or two in before going to bed and didn't play it at all throughout the day yesterday (had other stuff going on) but I was able to play it for three hours this afternoon.Cliff Bleszinski and the crew at Epic Games have done it. Again. I don't know if "video game" is even applicable to Gears of War 3. There is plot and pacing and dialogue here that trumps...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
A prayer for all people, in all times
Confederate Soldier's PrayerI asked God for strength, that I might achieve,I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.I asked God for health, that I might do greater things,I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.I asked for riches, that I might be happy,I was given poverty, that I might be wise.I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men,I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.I asked for all things,...
As of two hours ago...
...at the behest of President Obama, the armed forces of the United States have officially ended the "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexuals in the military.Bad, bad move by the Obama administration. And I am only saying that with it being borne in mind that military life is by definition radically different from civilian life. It is not a situation that allows...
Monday, September 19, 2011
How about a Mister Magoo cartoon?
Couldn't resist sharing this lil' gem that I found a few days ago. Okay yeah it's awesome all on its own. But for me there's whole other significance. You see: this was the very first thing that I watched on a VCR in my own house! It was sort of a "late Christmas present" to ourselves. So on December 31st 1983, I came home from a sleepover at my best friend's place and Dad was hooking the first VCR we ever owned up to the TV, and to try it out...
Genes found with links to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
For those wondering about this blog's Being Bipolar series, I haven't stopped it at all. Just been trying to figure out what to write about next: something that I've changed my mind about something around 18 or 19 times now. 'Course, having bipolar disorder can sometimes be the worst impediment to writing about it, ironically. Hoping to write the next installment sometime this week or next.In the meantime though, new research has been published...
President Obama wants $1,500,000,000,000 in new taxes
And this is supposed to create new jobs... HOW?!?!?Read about the insane proposed new taxes here.And in his speech Obama invoked the words "fair share" to justify the increased taxes on those who make more than a million dollars every year.Y'know, I'm a far cry from being among the most wealthy people in the country. I'm just a guy whose trying to hack it as best he can. I take a few odd jobs here and there, do some writing and videography. I...
Friday, September 16, 2011
Nicolas Cage is a time traveler!
A few years after the Civil War ended, Nicolas Cage was transported into the past and posed for this photograph in the vicinity of Bristol, Tennessee...
You can purchase the above photograph on eBay, provided you've got $1,000,000 to fork over for it.From the item's eBay page...Original c.1870 carte de visite showing a man who looks exactly like Nick Cage. Personally, I believe...
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Review of Steve Jablonsky's GEARS OF WAR 3: THE SOUNDTRACK CD!
Ooh-boy, how am I going to handle this?! I mean, Gears of War 3 doesn't come out until September 20th, this coming Tuesday. And there ain't no way that I'm gonna get an advance copy of the game itself. Hey, I've got connections, sho 'nuff... but they don't penetrate into the inner sanctum of Epic Games (even if it is just a few miles away in Cary).But a package arrived...
The most heartbreaking post in The Knight Shift history
sigh...For a week now, even during the trip to D.C., my mind has been in agony over how to approach this.I've gone over it a thousand times and more. But, I suppose there's nothing left to do, but to go ahead and address this. And maybe... maybe... some of us can get up the courage to move on.For a while now I've been posting photos on this blog of my incredibly sweet and...
Pat Robertson sez: Alzheimer's is grounds for divorce (Pat, shut up sir!)
I'm looking at this one of two ways: that Pat Robertson sincerely believes what he is saying here. Either that, or as I have heard it said a number of times in my life: "Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad."During a broadcast of his 700 Club this week, Christian Broadcasting Network founder and "evangelist" Pat Robertson said that it was perfectly justifiable to divorce...
