Dear readers,
This is likely to be the last post made on The Knight Shift.
If it is, I would like to thank you all for joining me on this little adventure. It lasted almost ten years, and was approaching its 5,000th post. I like to think that it was time well spent and that you had as much fun reading it as I did writing it.
God bless,
Ch...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
November 23rd is "The Day of the Doctor"
A short while ago the BBC finally revealed the title of the Doctor Who Fiftieth Anniversary Special.
November 23rd will be "The Day of the Doctor".
And here is the official poster for the episode...
Ho-leeee smokes, that is an insanely great piece of work! I have literally watched the final moments of "The Name of the Doctor" at least once on my iPad ever since...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
My thoughts on Syria
This has been one of the busiest periods that I've been in for quite some time now, hence the lack of blogging as actively as I'd like.
That being said, I'm feeling more than a little led to get this off my chest...
For well over a decade I have believed and as of this writing I still believe that George W. Bush was the absolutely worst President in the entire history of the United States.
For the PATRIOT Act, for creating the Department of Homeland...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Tammy Tuesday returns with an ear-full
After an absence of too many weeks, Tammy the Pup is back! That was my fault though: just been way busy on this end of things. And I've a few posts percolating in the ol' gray matter that I'm gonna try to channel into reality the next coupl'a days.
But anyway, here's Tammy, in a pose that is familiar to anybody who has ever owned a dachshund. I don't think...
Monday, August 26, 2013
Somebody help me out here...
I was horribly occupied all this past week with an assignment and am really out of touch on things.
What's this about Miley Cyrus being the next Batm...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
This week's Tammy Tuesday's guest host is... Lucy!
So... this was supposed to be a Tammy Tuesday: the weekly pic of my mini dachshund. Unfortunately the little girl is feeling under the weather today! But don't worry folks she's got that mischievous glint in her eye which is already threatening to unleash havoc when she's back to normal soon.
I didn't want to make it three weeks without something though. It was my...
Friday, August 16, 2013
Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" performed by librarians!
This might be the most awesome-sauce loaded thing you behold all weekend: some New York City librarians have made a parody video of "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys! And they totally pulled it off in the spirit of the original music video that Spike Jonze directed. M&D 2013 Sabotage from Mike and Duane Show on Vim...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
From our friends at the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE...
There was a horridly huge amount of work-related... work, these past several days and as a result I couldn't post a Tammy Tuesday either last week or this one. I'll do my best to entice her for new material this coming one.
Until then, as penance for failing to have fresh photos of my mini dachshund, here is a depiction of a monkey wearing a tuxedo about to club a...
Monday, August 12, 2013
Father Dowling, mystery no more: Priest of Missouri accident comes forward
I could not resist having fun with that title. It was just too punny!
One of the more intriguing stories last week was that of the mysterious priest who arrived on the scene of a vehicular accident in Missouri. 19-year old Katie Lentz was on her way to church when a drunk-driver smashed her car. Emergency workers tried for more than an hour to get Lentz...
Sunday, August 11, 2013
THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED footage found! Behind-the-scenes of Jerry Lewis' unreleased Holocaust film
Jerry's Kids, circa 1972:You won't hear "You'll Never Walk Alone" the same way again...
It might be the cinematic coup of the decade: a seven minutes-long clip of behind-the-scenes footage from The Day the Clown Cried has been posted to YouTube.
Perhaps the most infamous movie never released, The Day the Clown Cried is the 1972 film directed, co-written and starring Jerry...
Friday, August 09, 2013
Who was that priest? Miracle and mystery on a Missouri highway
He was there.
Everybody at the scene, from firefighters to police paramedics to the victim herself, saw him and heard him.
His calming words and peaceful demeanor are being credited with saving the life of a 19-year old young woman.
But he is nowhere to be found in any of the nearly 70 photographs taken at the site of the accident.
Neither can anyone figure out how he...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Goodbye NAND flash? Startup's new storage holds insanely high promise
Imagine a few years from now having a smartphone or an iPad equipped with extremely nonvolatile memory, retaining information for decades, is ultra-fast, can be made cheap with already-existing manufacturing technology, and holding a terabyte of data.
Your reaction is probably gonna be the same as mine: "Shut up and take my money!!"
A Crossbar RRAM chip sitting atop a...
The final official trailer for ENDER'S GAME
It's been almost a quarter-century since I first read Ender's Game and for almost as long I've heard a movie adaptation being discussed. With less than three months before it finally comes out, I'm at long last... feeling more than cautiously optimistic that this will be a very, very good movie.
Here's the last trailer we'll see before the release on November 1st:
I know it would be ridiculously difficult to pull off because in so many...
Sunday, August 04, 2013
And the Twelfth Doctor shall bear the face of... Peter Capaldi!
On December 25th, we will bear witness to the fall of the Eleventh and the rise of the Twelfth.And it will be Peter Capaldi who will be the next actor to portray The Doctor on Doctor Who, the BBC announced moments ago:The always-emotional regeneration will take place during this year's Christmas special, as Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor will pass the torch - and the responsibilities...
Friday, August 02, 2013
Our first look at Series 3 of SHERLOCK!
BBC One just released a teaser trailer giving us our first glimpse of Series 3 of Sherlock. And it's a doozie...Sherlock returns in the spring of 20...
Thursday, August 01, 2013
The Fourth Annual Popcorn Sutton Summer Jam is this weekend!
If you are in the neighborhood of western North Carolina this weekend, you won't find much more good times than at the Fourth Annual Popcorn Sutton Summer Jam. And if you aren't in the neighborhood and have some time, you should come anyway!
Since its humble beginnings as one evening at a Maggie Valley restaurant three years ago, it has grown into a two-day event...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Roads? Where this LEGO model is going we don't need... roads.
Here's the latest entry in the "Things we don't really need but are lusting for badly" files...
1-Point-21 jigawatts of LEGO awesome!
Going on sale worldwide tomorrow at LEGO Stores, toy and other retailers as well as LEGO's online store is this: The DeLorean Time Machine. The fourth model to be designed, supported and approved for official production via LEGO...
