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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

To land on your feet




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The Time Machine


They speak?
Of what?
Things no one here understands.
Make it talk.










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Union, S.C., case prompts children's fears of murdering moms

LENA WILLIAMS New York Times

FRI 11/11/1994 HOUSTON CHRONICLE

The confessed killing of two little boys by their mother in Union, S.C., horrified the nation last week.

The incident may also have terrified youngsters across the country.

"Is Mommy going to kill me?" some children reportedly have been asking teachers, nannies, parents and older siblings in the wake of the deaths.










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ARCHIVE


Guy Burgess at the BBC | The early career of the Cambridge spy

Memo re Burgess and first-class travel

Burgess' case for travelling first class is disputed.


SYNOPSIS

This memo continues the dispute over Burgess' expenses claim for first-class travel. The Administrative Officer dismisses Burgess' claim and lays out the (somewhat labyrinthine) rules for travel undertaken on behalf of the BBC.

Read the next document in this chain of correspondence.

DID YOU KNOW?

Guy Burgess' Kremlin codename while at Cambridge was Madchen, which is German for 'young girl'. Later code names assigned to him were Hicks










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Guy Burgess at the BBC | The early career of the Cambridge spy

Memo from Burgess pursuing expenses claim

Burgess persists with his claim for first-class travel.


Document Type | Internal Memo

10 November 1943


SYNOPSIS

In this ardent defence of his decision to travel first class, Burgess itemises his justifications, stating that he is normally in the habit of travelling in this way and was wearing his best clothes.










She got married to a former US Marine around that time. Were they married in 1971 or 1972? I can't recall for certain. I have memories suggesting clearly they were already married when I was beginning first grade in De Queen Arkansas. I remember his name spelled as 'Nevells.' I wonder if I have that spelled correctly. Sometime later, I remember we lived near the El Toro marine base in California where I started second grade and then, I think later, we lived near the base in McAlester Oklahoma. Some time later she was married to Dale Parker and then some time later Randy Romine, both of whom I found dates of birth for on the internet.





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Matthias: You are discarded. You are the refuse of the past!

Robert Neville: You're full of crap.










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WarGames (1983)


Richter: [looking at a report] There's just been a very serious penetration into our WOPR Execution Order file.

Lyle Watson: What the hell's he saying?

Arthur Cabot: Let's have it in English.

General Beringer: I'll give it to you in English - somebody broke into Mr. McKittrick's well-known system and stole the codes that'll launch our missiles. That right, Mr. McKittrick?

John McKittrick: There's no cause for alarm. The system won't accept the launch code










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The Time Machine


There's nothing to fight with
and few left to fight.
The atmosphere has become
so polluted with germs...
...that it can no longer be breathed.
There is no place left
that is immune.
The last factory for the manufacture
of oxygen has been destroyed.
Stockpiles are rapidly diminishing...
...and when they are gone,
we must die.
My name is of no consequence.
You should know that I am the last
who remembers how each of us...
...man and woman,
made his own decision.
Some chose to take refuge
in the great caverns...
...and find a new way of life
below the Earth's surface.
The rest of us decided
to take our chances in the sunlight...
...small as those chances might be.
From the talking rings I learned
how the human race divided










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Stephen Crane


The Red Badge of Courage



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Chapter 2

The next morning the youth discovered that his tall comrade had been the fast-flying messenger of a mistake. There was much scoffing at the latter by those who had yesterday been firm adherents of his views, and there was even a little sneering by men who had never believed the rumor. The tall one fought with a man from Chatfield Corners and beat him severely.

The youth felt, however, that his problem was in no wise lifted from him. There was, on the contrary, an irritating prolongation. The tale had created in him a great concern for himself. Now, with the newborn question in his mind, he was compelled to sink back into his old place as part of a blue demonstration.

For days he made ceaseless calculations, but they were all wondrously unsatisfactory. He found that he could establish nothing. He finally concluded that the only way to prove himself was to go into the blaze, and then figuratively to watch his legs to discover their merits and faults. He reluctantly admitted that he could not sit still and with a mental slate and pencil derive an answer. To gain it, he must have blaze, blood, and danger, even as a chemist requires this, that, and the other. So he fretted for an opportunity.

Meanwhile, he continually tried to measure himself by his comrades. The tall soldier, for one, gave him some assurance. This man's serene unconcern dealt him a measure of confidence, for he had known him since childhood, and from his intimate knowledge he did not see how he could be capable of anything that was beyond him, the youth. Still, he thought that his comrade might be mistaken about himself. Or, on the other hand, he might be a man heretofore doomed to peace and obscurity, but, in reality, made to shine in war.

The youth would have liked to have discovered another who suspected himself. A sympathetic comparison of mental notes would have been a joy to him.

He occasionally tried to fathom a comrade with seductive sentences. He looked about to find men in the proper mood. All attempts failed to bring forth any statement which looked in any way like a confession to those doubts which he privately acknowledged in himself. He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he could be derided.

In regard to his companions his mind wavered between two opinions, according to his mood. Sometimes he inclined to believing them all heroes. In fact, he usually admired in secret the superior development of the higher qualities in others. He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.

His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in their faces. It was often that he suspected them to be liars.

He did not pass such thoughts without severe condemnation of himself. He dinned reproaches at times. He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions.

In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals. They seemed content to perch tranquilly on the river bank, and leave him bowed down by the weight of a great problem. He wanted it settled forthwith. He could not long bear such a load, he said. Sometimes his anger at the commanders reached an acute stage, and he grumbled about the camp like a veteran.










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Paycheck [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


We knew Dekker was
trying to design something,
but when he sold his plans,
he wasn't even halfway done.
I don't understand.
Dekker was working at JPL
on a laser-enhanced lens.
He claimed the lens
was powerful enough
to see around the curvature
of the universe.
He believed if you could see
around a curve that went on forever
you would end up back
where you started,
looking at yourself.
Except you're not looking
at yourself now, in the present.
No, you are not.
You're looking at the future.










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The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


Chapter 17

Starkey was standing in front of monitor 2, keeping a close eye on Tech 2nd Class Frank D. Bruce. When we last saw Bruce, he was facedown in a bowl of Chunky Sirloin Soup. No change except for the positive ID. Situation normal, all fucked up.

Thoughtfully, hands locked behind his back like a general reviewing troops, like General Black Jack Pershing, his boyhood idol, Starkey moved down to monitor 4, where the situation had changed for the better. Dr. Emmanual Ezwick still lay dead on the floor, but the centrifuge had stopped. At 1940 hours last night, the centrifuge had begun to emit fine tendrils of smoke. At 1995 hours the sound pickups in Ezwick’s lab had transmitted a whunga-whunga-whunga sort of sound that deepened into a fuller, richer, and more satisfying ronk! ronk! ronk! At 2107 hours the centrifuge had ronked its last ronk and had slowly come to rest. Was it Newton who had said that somewhere, beyond the farthest star, there may be a body perfectly at rest? Newton had been right about everything but the distance, Starkey thought. You didn’t have to go far at all. Project Blue was perfectly at rest. Starkey was very glad. The centrifuge had been the last illusion of life, and the problem he’d had Steffens run through the main computer bank (Steffens had looked at him as though he were crazy, and yes, Starkey thought he might be) was: How long could that centrifuge be expected to run? The answer, which had come back in 6.6 seconds, was: ± 3 YEARS PROBABLE MALFUNCTION NEXT TWO WEEKS .009% AREAS OF PROBABLE MALFUNCTION BEARINGS 38% MAIN MOTOR 16% ALL OTHER 54%. That was a smart computer. Starkey had gotten Steffens to query it again after the actual burnout of Ezwick’s centrifuge. The computer communed with the Engineering Systems data bank and confirmed that the centrifuge had indeed burned out its bearings.

Remember that, Starkey thought as his caller began to beep urgently behind him. The sound of burning bearings in the final stages of collapse is ronk-ronk-ronk.

He went to the caller and pushed the button that snapped off the beeper. “Yes, Len.”

“Billy, I’ve got an urgent from one of our teams in a town called Sipe Springs, Texas. Almost four hundred miles from Arnette. They say they have to talk to you; it’s a command decision.”










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Hudsucker Proxy The [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]


What's this I hear about you being an imbecile?
What's ailing you, boy?
Last week, my stock was worth twice what it is now. I think I'll sell...
...the whole kit and caboodle, boy, unless I see a vast improvement.
What you've got here, son, is a range war!
You gonna have to circle our wagons or I'm gonna get out of your wagon train.
No need for concern, sir. It's only natural...
...in a period of transition for the more timid elements to run for cover.
Yellow? I'll show you yellow, boy!










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Computer Voice: Skybird, this is Dropkick with a red dash alpha message in two parts. Break. Break. Red dash alpha.

Captain Jerry Lawson: [grabs red binder] Stand by to copy message.

Computer Voice: Red dash alpha.

1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: [grabs his red binder] Standing by.

Computer Voice: Romeo. Oscar. November. Charlie. Tango. Tango. Lima. Alpha. Authentication: two, two; zero, zero; four, zero; Delta, Lima.

Captain Jerry Lawson: I have a valid message. Stand by to authenticate.





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Captain Jerry Lawson: Get me Wing Command post on your direct line.

1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: That's not the correct procedure, Captain.

Captain Jerry Lawson: SAC? Try SAC on the HF.

1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: That's not the correct procedure...

Captain Jerry Lawson: Screw the procedure, I want somebody on the goddamn phone before I kill 20 million people!





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1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: Sir, we have a launch order. Put your hand on your key, sir!

Captain Jerry Lawson: [softly] I'm sorry...

Computer Voice: Two... one... Launch!

1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: [pulls out his sidearm and aims at CAPT Lawson] Sir, we are at launch, turn your key!

Captain Jerry Lawson: I'm sorry.

1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: [cocks his sidearm] Turn your key, sir!





- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:02 PM Pacific Time USA Tuesday 31 July 2012