From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:44:46 PM
Subject: Re: ABCs Lost Numbers
1854 miles is the distance from the Lottery/GPS numbers to the map center of the town of Mokuleia, which is where they are filming the series Lost. 1854 miles is also the distance from those Lottery/GPS numbers to the first place I stayed when I moved to Bellevue in 1998 to work for Microsoft. I wonder if my flight number from Charlotte to Seattle was 815?
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:45:01 PM
Subject: Re: Finally
the worst time is seeing the plane flying over and waiting..........
Kerry Burgess
It'll take damn near a century to get this unscrewed right.
Kerry Burgess
[1st journal entry on this topic. I wrote only that subject line.]
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:47:31 PM
Subject: time capsule
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=time%20capsule
time capsule
container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 7:52:41 PM
Subject: Star Trek: Generations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Generations
Star Trek: Generations
Released November 18, 1994
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Suddenly Data lets out a quiet giggle. La Forge stops and turns to look at him. Data giggles louder.
DATA
(laughing, to himself)
I get it. I get it.
LA FORGE
You get what?
Data laughs again.
DATA
When you said to Commander Riker (imitating La Forge's voice) "The clown
can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go."
La Forge looks blankly at him for a moment.
LA FORGE
What?
DATA
During the Farpoint mission. We were on the Bridge and you told a joke.
That was the punchline.
LA FORGE
The Farpoint mission? Data, that was seven years ago.
DATA
I know. I just got it. (laughs) It was very funny.
LA FORGE
Thanks.
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 10:46:56 AM
Subject: Re: Star Trek: TNG: Emergence, May 22, 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest_%28play%29
The Tempest is traditionally considered to be William Shakespeare's last play. Its first known performance was on November 1, 1611 at Whitehall Palace in London.
Kerry Burgess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence_%28TNG_episode%29
Commander Data is again working on his acting, portraying Prospero from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" on the holodeck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero
Prospero is the protagonist in The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.
He was the rightful Duke of Milan who (with his daughter, Miranda) was sent off on a boat to die by his usurping brother Antonio so that he could become duke. As Milan is a landlocked city, it is not clear how Antonio did this. Prospero and Miranda survived on the boat and found exile on a small island. He had learned sorcery and while on the island he uses it to control the other characters. On the island, he became the master of Caliban and Ariel.
By chance, Antonio sails near this island and Prospero conjures the eponymous storm that forces him (and others) ashore.
When I noted this in my journal, it was because I was wondering if Thedia had written to President Reagan when I was on the USS Wainwright CG-28 in the Persian Gulf in 1988. I wasn't writing much about the thoughts I was having....something about puzzling over whether my memories were real. It was when I looked up the name Wexford that I really began to question my memory.
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 7:58:17 PM
Subject: Re: Mother's Day
I think it was the day after Mother's Day in 1984 when I left for the Navy.
Kerry Burgess
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/042688c.htm
Proclamation 5801 -- Mother's Day, 1988
April 26, 1988
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Maternal love is the first tangible bond any human being knows. It is a tie at once physical, emotional, psychological, and mystical. With all of the words that have been written about motherhood, all of the poems of tribute and gratitude that have been penned through the ages, all of the portraits of a mother and child that have been painted down the centuries, none has come close to expressing in full the thankfulness and joy owing to mothers.
The mark of motherhood, as the story of Solomon and the disputed infant in the first Book of Kings shows, is a devotion to the well-being of the child so total that it overlooks itself and its own preferences and needs. It is a love that risks all, bears all, braves all. As it heals and strengthens and inspires in its objects an understanding of self-sacrifice and devotion, it is the parent of many another love as well.
The arms of a mother are the newborn's first cradle and the injured child's first refuge. The hands of a mother are the hands of care for the child who is near and of prayer for the one who is far away. The eyes of a mother are the eyes of fond surprise at baby's first step, the eyes of unspoken worry at the young adult's first voyage from home, the eyes of gladness at every call or visit that says she is honored and remembered. The heart of a mother is a heart that is always full.
Generation after generation has measured love by the work and wonder of motherhood. For these gifts, ever ancient and ever new, we cannot pause too often to give thanks to mothers. As inadequate as our homage may be and as short as a single day is to express it -- ``What possible comparison was there,'' a great saint wrote of his mother, ``between the honor I showed her and the service she had rendered me?'' -- Mother's Day affords us an opportunity to meet one of life's happiest duties.
In recognition of the contributions of mothers to their families and to our Nation, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), has designated the second Sunday in May each year as Mother's Day and requested the President to call for its appropriate observance.
Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 8, 1988, be observed as Mother's Day. I urge all Americans to express their love and respect for their mothers and to reflect on the importance of motherhood to the well-being of our country. I direct government officials to display the flag of the United States on all Federal government buildings, and I urge all citizens to display the flag at their homes and other suitable places on that day.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.
Ronald Reagan
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:34 p.m., April 27, 1988]
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:48:42 AM
Subject: Re: Conspiracy Theory, Aug. 8, 1997
Gibson's character is named Jerry Fletcher. My grandfathers name is Joseph Fletcher, or J. Fletcher. Did they combine the names Joseph and Kerry to produce Jerry?
Kerry Burgess
[I found this movie kind of disturbing. Specifically I guess because Stewart was playing the bad guy. I realized this morning that I have been working not unlike a taxi driver, in sense of my work in the computer industry. "Where do you want to go today?"
There is also that young woman I was interested in a while back. I saw some resemblance in her to Julia Roberts, specifically in that scene where Roberts was walking down the staircase in "Oceans 11". And I caught a part of her movie Flatliners the other day, which I remember seeing back then, and her hair reminded of something. And there was something about Gibson biting Stewart on the nose, that was a key element of the plot. There is some kind of expression about hitting something on the nose, or something. I've got this bad feeling in my stomach. I feel like, I don't know, goddamnit!!!!!!!!! WHEN DO I GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Theory_%28film%29
Conspiracy Theory is a 1997 thriller directed by Richard Donner. It stars Mel Gibson as Jerry Fletcher, an eccentric taxi driver who believes that many world events are actually government conspiracies. Jerry is infatuated with an assistant district attorney named Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), whom Jerry once saved. Alice believes Jerry is a harmless, good-natured goofball — until one of his theories turns out to be true. Furthermore, Jerry turns out to be linked to the murder of her father and to a mysterious scientist named Dr. Jonas (Patrick Stewart) that has been using a defunct CIA program MK Ultra to program Jerry as a Manchurian Candidate assassin.
But even Alice can't fathom the depth of this conspiracy.
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:09:45 AM
Subject: Safe House, Jan. 24, 1999
[I remember watching this movie, but I don't remember a lot about it.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_House
Directed by Eric Steven Stahl, Safe House was a made for TV movie premiered in the UK in late 1998 on Channel 5 and in the US on Showtime on 24th January 1999
Patrick Stewart stared as Mace Sowell, an ex-DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency) agent who believes his life is in danger from his former boss who is now running for President of the United States.
Sowell has information about the underhand dealings of his erstwhile boss at the DIA which would ruin his Presidential campaign if it ever was released into the public domain.
To complicate the issue, Sowell is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and has difficulty in convincing people his information is not paranoia as a result of his condition. Sowell retreats to the safety of his barricaded home, kitted out with a variety of defence and security devices to try and escape those he thinks are out to harm him.
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:46:57 PM
Subject: Re: The Manchurian Candidate, July 30, 2004
Actually I wonder if Shaw represents someone that I know, a specific person from my past, or maybe two people. In the movie, there were some specifics about Marco that seemed connected to me, but I didn't notice anything like that about Shaw.
Kerry Burgess
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
[There are several things in this movie I recognized. One was that part were the scientist-guy told Marco that maybe he was dreaming, which was recurring dream I used to have, where I woke up and was still in the Gulf and all the years following 1988 had just been a dream. The part where he is sitting in the library with the headphones on while the camera is watching is familar too. Sometimes I wonder if Shaw and Marco both represent me and that is reinforced by one scene, or an element to the story. I can't remember specifically, but I think there is something about Shaw making a specific choice to go along with the plan.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate_%282004_film%29
The movie has Shaw (Schreiber) himself as the vice-presidential candidate; Marco (Washington), also brainwashed but not fully aware of it, as the assassin; Eleanor Shaw (Streep), as a power-hungry and malevolently nasty politician and evil villainess.The film attempts to adapt itself to the modern world by having the brainwashing conducted by Manchurian Global, a large multinational corporation and government contractor (widely assumed to be comparable with the real world global private equity firm, the Carlyle Group, or sometimes the oil and military services contractor, Halliburton), with the aim of expanding corporate influence as well as government contracts for themselves. Instead of capture during the Korean War, and being brainwashed by communists, Marco and Shaw's unit is captured during the first Gulf War (Desert Storm), and brainwashed at a secret Manchurian Global facility.
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:59:51 PM
Subject: Re: Star Trek: TNG: The Best of Both Worlds, July 1, 1990
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0907136.html
Cheney, Dick (Richard Bruce Cheney) ,1941–, vice president of the United States (2001–), b. Lincoln, Nebr.
Cheney remained in Congress until 1989, when President George H. W. Bush appointed him secretary of defense, a post he held until 1993.
Kerry Burgess
Between the years 1989 and 2001, or MIDWAY, is the year 1995, the year I went to work at Microsoft as a contractor, which supports that "April 16" theme I've been seeing.
Kerry Burgess
I wonder if 43989.1 could represent February 1989? That is when that episode titled "Measure of a man" aired, where "Data sits in judgment" It was sometime around then when I was interviewed by the CO of the Charleston Navy Hospital, which I thought was unusal. He later participated along with my regular doctor, in my hip surgery in April 1989.
If you were to divide 2 by 12, you return a .1
For 44001.4, if you divide 5 (June) by 12, it returns .4, so something was going to happen in June, but I suspect it was tied to the debut of Enterprise, which happened right around the time of 9/11. There is undoubtedly more to it, but that is probably basically how it was to work. For some reason, 9/11 caused some problems with it, probably because a feature of the story involves Iran, and as Admiral Crowe wrote, a "terroristic" act.
Kerry Burgess
[This seems as odd choice for the title. Why "the best of both worlds"? Describing Picard as the best of the human world, in the context of Star Trek, makes sense. And that makes sense in terms of why the Borg would want him. But why would you think of Picard as the best of the Borg? I can't quite articulate what seems odd about that. And, of course, what does this have to do with me?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Both_Worlds_%28TNG_episode%29
[...]
"The Best of Both Worlds" originated the quotes, "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us," and "You will be assimilated," which became a part of pop culture, sometimes used, for example, in parodying Bill Gates, Microsoft and other institutions.
[I've been wondering about these Stardates and how they were chosen. There would be some constraint on the numbers, in terms of continuity within the series. But I wonder if they have also been able to encode something about me in them. If so, I suspect these two stardates indicate when I was "assimilated" and when I was supposed to be "emancipated," 1989 and 2001, respectively. I have sometimes wondered if the terrorists attacks in 2001 screwed it all up somehow. AND AND AND, those years cover two millenia........symbolically, two worlds.]
Stardate 43989.1
44001.4
