Campaign website gets new look

My campaign website at knightforboard.org got something of a minor overhaul this weekend. New logo, a slicker menu interface with rollover graphics, online contributions implemented, and a few other tweaks. Please check it out if you haven't done so already. And very special thanks to Ed Woody who went above and beyond the call of duty in helping make this site even better than it was before.

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Higher-quality MP3 of "Don't Download This Song"

A few days ago I posted about "Weird Al" Yankovic makng the first single from his upcoming "Straight Outta Lynwood" album available as a free download on his Myspace page. That file of "Don't Download This Song" was 92 kbps in rate. Well not many people may know this but in the past few days Al has also put up DontDownloadThisSong.com and there's a much higher-quality version of the song (at 160 kbps) available for download there. I recommend getting it from that site if you must download it (even though the song implores you NOT to download it at all :-)

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It's the Return of the Spinning Head!

Here's a real blast from the past that I found tucked away on a seldom-used hard drive tonight...

I made that all the way back in 1998! Remember how a long time ago when we didn't have blogs or Myspace, how we made our own personal homepages? Yeah, a bygone era to be sure. Well when "Weird" Ed and I were roomies at Elon, I had him help me make this graphic for my homepage. So I sat in his office chair while he operated my standard film camera mounted on a tripod. I faced the camera, he snapped off a pic, and while keeping my head straight I rotated 1/8th the way around. He took another pic, I rotated, and so forth. Then I got the film developed and scanned all the photos (with the scanner in the computer lab at school), took the files home and did some editing with Paint Shop Pro, then assembled them together with GIF Construction Set. All of this was using Windows 3.1 except for the scanning which was done on a Win 95 machine. I then stuck it on my homepage (which was called "Chris Knight's Virtual Surreality" at the time). It came out pretty good, I think. It definitely made people laugh when they saw it. Anyways, it's a bit of graphic fun I had back in the day and I thought that if anyone is curious about what a 360-degree look at my head was like in 1998, that it'd be fun to post here for old time's sake.

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Making a contribution to the Knight for School Board 2006 campaign

I'm now three weeks into my campaign for school board. And if you would like to help out in any way, I would certainly appreciate the support. Just saying "good luck" or sending a prayer this way would help plenty. But I would certainly also appreciate any monetary support that could come this way.

So if you've read my campaign website or you know enough about me already that you feel I would be of great service on the Rockingham County Board of Education, I'm asking you to consider making a financial contribution to this campaign. There are two ways you can do this from this blog: directly online via PayPal, or mail-in a check along with some required information.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:
Personal checks and checks from PACs registered with the state of North Carolina ONLY are accepted. By state law we cannot accept corporate contributions. Contributions are limited to no more than $4,000. Anonymous contributions are prohibited. State law requires that the name, address, phone number, occupation title and employer's name be recorded from each contributor. Contributions are not tax deductible.

OPTION A: ONLINE CONTRIBUTION
There are two steps to making an online contribution.

1. Send an e-mail to knightforboard@gmail.com with "Contribution" in the subject line. In the body of the e-mail you must provide the following information:

Name
Address (street, city, state, zip)
Phone Number (including area code)
Occupation/Job Title
Employer
Contribution Amount

2. After sending the e-mail you may then hit the button below that will take you to a secure page on PayPal from which you can make a contribution with a major credit card or checking account.

OPTION B: MAIL-IN CONTRIBUTION
There are two steps toward making a mail-in contribution.

1. Send a written/printed page with the following required information:

Name
Address (street, city, state, zip)
Phone Number (including area code)
Occupation/Job Title
Employer
Contribution Amount

2. Mail the page with the information, along with your check contribution, to the following address:

Chris Knight
1516 Sherwood Drive Apt. B
Reidsville NC 27320

As I said, any support at all - even just wishing me good luck and Godspeed - would be appreciated. But if you find it possible to make a financial contribution, I would be especially thankful. By the way, no sensitive financial information will be shared with anyone. I am only required to make a record of name, address, phone, employer information etc.

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Chad gives it a "tri"

A few weeks ago my life-long friend Chad (who you might remember for his stunning portrayal of George Lucas in Forcery) did something he's never done before: competed in a triathlon. That's when you swim a distance, then bike a long way and then run the rest of the race. Chad's a veteran of two full-blown marathons already and several half-marathons, and he was one of the best swimmers on our team in high school and he bikes to work sometimes... so the man was way up to the challenge of the triathlon. Read his blow-by-blow report, including a bunch of great action photos. Congratulations on a good race Chad!

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Testing, pay no attention

P.S. the above photo is that of Vinnie Lunesta, the accountant at WGSR-Star 39 (the TV station I work at). This was from the evening Lunesta went on Monday Night Live and explained how the show had given away more than $400,000 in prizes.

(I'm using the "beta" version of the new Blogger stuff... I had to test this with something :-P )

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A hearty hello to everyone from the TAPS Forum!

The past few days or so my blog's meter has been going crazy with hits, and yesterday I found out why: I'm getting a LOT of visitors from the TAPS Forum! Some of you might remember my post last October about the best ghost photographs ever taken. Well the good folks on the TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society, the same outfit you see on Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters) boards found that article and made a thread out of it on their board. How much traffic are they sending this way? About three-four times the normal flow :-) I peeked my head in to check 'em out and I was mighty impressed with the camaraderie over there, so I registered on the board and sent them a hello there. Anyways, they're a good crew and I wanted to commemorate their being here, so... hey guys! :-)

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