http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/070622-N-XXXXX-004.jpg
070622-N-XXXXX-004 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 22, 2007) - A Standard Missile (SM-3) is launched from the Aegis combat system equipped Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) during a Missile Defense Agency ballistic missile flight test. Minutes later the SM-3 intercepted a separating ballistic missile threat target, launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. It was the first time such a test was conducted from a ballistic missile defense equipped-U.S. Navy destroyer. The previous flight tests were conducted from U.S. Navy cruisers. The maritime capability is designed to intercept short to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats in the midcourse phase of flight. USS Decatur is one of 18 U.S. Navy ships (three cruisers and 15 destroyers) that will be identically equipped, by early 2009, with the ballistic missile defense capabilities of conducting long-range surveillance/tracking and launching the SM-3 missile. U.S. Navy Photo (Released)
Did I graduate from University of Oxford on 5/6/1973? I have been thinking for a long time that it was 1973 when I graduated from there. I wasn't sure of the date though. My thoughts suggest I earned a law degree from there, after receiving a doctorate in computer science from Princeton University a few year earlier.
From 3/3/1959 to 8/29/1998 is: 14424 days
14424 * 0.359 = 5178
From 3/3/1959 to 5/6/1973 is: 5178 days
http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg73.htm
USS Decatur (DDG 73)
Commissioned: August 29, 1998
Microsoft-Corbis wants us to know they have spies constantly monitoring our official federal investigation into their insurgent activities.
This is another section of the script from "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" that makes me think the mall setting is symbolic of an aircraft carrier.
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fast-Times-at-Ridgemont-High.html
EXT. RIDGEMONT MALL - EARLY EVENING
The parking lot is full. Kids and shoppers stream through the entrance in groups of all sizes.
INT. RIDGEMONT MALL
All three levels are teeming with kids.
ANGLE ON THE VIDEO PINBALL ARCADE
where we see Jeff Spicoli manning the Missile Command machine. Spicoli wears a red bandana across his forehead. A cigarette dangles from his mouth. He is surrounded by a fleet of young surfers who listen to him with reverence.
SPICOLI
Be noble. Be aggressive. The thing about Missile Command is to decimate before you can be decimated. Just like in real life. The youngsters hang on every word of the sage advice.
Debbie Harry is 6589 days older than Phoebe. Phoebe was 6589 days old on 7/30/1981, the day after Charles and Diana married.
From 7/1/1945 to 7/16/1963 is: 6589 days
From 7/16/1963 to 7/30/1981 is: 6589 days
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fast-Times-at-Ridgemont-High.html
DAMONE
All right. Pay attention.
The Rat nods, always the student, as they pass a Wherehouse Record store. Damone stops right in front of a seductively posed life-sized cardboard stand-up of Debbie Harry, the alluring rock singer.
Damone begins his speech.
DAMONE (CONT'D)
First of all, Rat... never let on how much you like a girl.
Damone turns to the cardboard cutout of Debbie Harry to demonstrate.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001323/
Deborah Harry
Date of Birth: 1 July 1945
Blondie: Live! (1982) (V) .... Herself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances;[2] née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their two sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms.
Prince Charles' love life had always been the subject of press speculation, and he was linked to numerous glamorous and aristocratic women. In his early thirties, he was under increasing pressure to marry. Legally, the only requirement was that he could not marry a Roman Catholic; a member of the Church of England was preferred. In order to gain the approval of his family and their advisers, any potential bride was expected to have a royal or aristocratic background, as well as be Protestant. Diana seemed to meet these qualifications. They married at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 July 1981, watched by a global audience of almost one billion
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/24/2006 1:05 PM
I was sitting in the waiting room at the VA this morning and a thought suddenly formed in my mind about the United States Naval Academy. I started thinking about how the initials backwards are ANSU. So I started thinking, “Do I know someone named “Ann?” Then I wondered if I knew someone named Sue. I did not think I did. I remember some women with those names, but my instincts must have told me they weren’t the ones I was trying to remember. Then it hit me: Ann Sewell. AN SU EL or maybe it would be AN SU L. I don’t know what the “EL” or just an “L” could represent. So I started thinking about my “memories” of Ann Sewell, who was in my graduating class at Ashdown High School and I remembered two other details. One was of my class reunion in 1994. She was the first person I encountered as I was going to the first night of the reunion as we met down at the Fish Bowl restaurant outside Ashdown, which was a Friday. I was in that convenience store across from the Wal-Mart. She walked in to pay for gas and as I saw her, I said to her matter-of-factly because I had just remembered her name, “Ann Sewell.” We spoke for a few minutes and she and her husband were also on their way to the Fish Bowl. The other memory related to her is actually from Microsoft when I was out bicycle riding with Grace and Lynn. Grace brought up the song from Blondie titled “The Tide Is High.” My immediate response was that Ann Sewell had dedicated that song to me one time in the 9th grade. I think it was one night at the skating rink out on Highway 32.
10/24/2006 1:18 PM
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blondie/thetideishigh.html
"The Tide Is High"
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
It's not the things you do that tease and wound me bad
But it's the way you do the things you do to me
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'til it's my turn
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'til it's my turn
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
