Chuck YeagerFebruary 13 1923 ~ December 7 2...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Saturday, December 05, 2020
Couple of hilarious music videos I came across
Awright, we could all use some laughter right now, no matter who you are. And in the past few days I've come across some really good videos worth sharing.First there's this parody of "Sweet Child O' Mine", performed by Guns N Helmets featuring Axl Rose Grogu aka "Baby Yoda":And then there is this fine piece of work: heavy metal guitar accompanying televangelist Kenneth Copeland (who has always been pretty creepy to m...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020
Maybe the last real post I make about this election
The following post isn't going to endear me to some people. Indeed, I removed it for awhile after it drew fire from some who I greatly respect. I sincerely hope that, as Thomas Jefferson beautifully put it, this will be no reason to depart from friendship.I am a historian and an observer of human nature. And what comes now, is from a place I earnestly believe...
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Replacing the battery in a Game Boy cartridge (yes, it CAN be done!)
A few weeks ago I found my Game Boy Advance. Still in pristine condition after being in a really nice case all this time. Vintage game consoles seem to be enjoying a renaissance lately, like systems that play Atari and Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges on high-def television sets. And this particular Game Boy Advance holds a special place in my heart,...
Friday, November 27, 2020
Chris and Bennie's Trans-Atlantic Pecan Pie!
Last week my good friend Bennie, a physician in Belgium, shared on Facebook a photo of a pecan pie she had made. It looked magnificent! I asked her for the recipe for it and she sent it along. Turned out that it's from a French-language cookbook of American recipes. Well whatever: I'm still counting it as a recipe from a foreign language book...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Thanksgiving... 2020?
Maybe 2020 is as good a year as any to bring back a tradition on this blog: listing the things that I am thankful for. Having all the craziness and challenges that Twenty-Twenty has tossed our way, perhaps it will make thankfulness that much better. Make our blessings more appreciated. I want to believe so anyway.So here are the things I'm thankful for in...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Just watched Ron Howard's HILLBILLY ELEGY
I think Hillbilly Elegy must have hit Netflix this week. A friend and I were discussing it just yesterday but I had no idea it was coming out so soon. I was about to start on The Queen's Gambit (a series getting lots of high praise from people I trust) but I went with Hillbilly Elegy instead.Ron Howard's latest film hit hard. Parts of it were like a sucker-punch...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Today is Veterans Day
My father, Robert Knight, circa 1958. He was 19 years old, serving in the United States Navy aboard the Seventh Fleet flagship U.S.S. Northampton. Thinking of all members of the United States armed forces on this Veterans Day. Thank you for your servi...
Sunday, November 08, 2020
This game show host brought dignity, class, and an astounding intellect into millions of homes for almost forty years
"Who is Alex Trebek?"Rest in peace, good s...
Friday, November 06, 2020
Want some commentary about this presidential election?
No? I don't care. You're getting it anyway...The
more I am finding out ("voters" born in 1850, 160,000+ ballots going
for ONE candidate in a single dump, software "glitches" etc.) the more I
am of the persuasion that this presidential election needs a nationwide
do-over. This time with NO mail-in ballots and paper only.But
realistically, I don't see that happening.We are hurtling headlong into a very
dark and chaotic tim...
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Happy Halloween!
Hey gang, there's a new app for mobile devices called ReFace and it is amazing! You shoot a selfie of your face and from there it places your mug practically seamlessly into footage from television or movies or whatever. Thought for Halloween that I'd share this one of me channeling Jack Nicholson from The Shining. All work and no play makes Chris a dull...
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Richard "The Carpenter": Twelve generations of Knights
Dad used to tell me that he didn't want to study our family tree too much. "There's going to be someone there who wore a rope for a necktie", he would say. In most part Dad was content with knowing his grandfather, Samuel Knight - born in 1887 - and not much further.(Samuel's wife, Maggie Warren, was born in 1880 and died in 1979. I'm old enough to...
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Censored by Twitter
Well, it happened. But from the looks of things I am in plenty of good company.Last night I made a tweet on Twitter. The now much-beleagured company that along with Facebook (is that a possible RICO charge?) has been censoring any mention of yesterday's New York Post story about Joe Biden and his son Hunter and their dealings with Burisma. Among other things.There is a photograph of Hunter Biden using a crack pipe. Or maybe...
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Star Wars: Squadrons has Chris feeling like he's 20 years old all over again
For the vastest part I have moved on past video games. These days if I play any game at all it's going to be something like a rewarding round of Go against a human opponent, or the miniatures game Warhammer 40,000 (either of which provides for keen exercise of the tactical mind). You know, something physical with tactile sensation. A few months ago I reviewed...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Want to run for office? Here's how!
At the moment the vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris is going on. I'm sort-of listening to it, and for whatever reason tonight has me thinking back to the "debates" we had as school board candidates when sixteen of us were running for Rockingham County (North Carolina) Board of Education. Though I did not win a seat, I have always been proud of my campaign and there hasn't been a...
Saturday, October 03, 2020
Review, kinda, of TENET
There is likely no disputing that Christopher Nolan is king of high-concept cinema. With Tenet I am wondering if maybe he went for TOO high-concept. It was ten years ago this summer that Nolan gave us Inception: a movie that I have watched many times since and continues to enthrall.Tenet however, I might watch once or twice again. Three times tops. ...
