They are certainly dancing to my tune.

I decided to publish this note because I saw an advertisement again tonight for this topic of this note and I decided to watch it sometime in the near future as my XFinity cable television service indicates the previous episodes are available to view online and then I will probably watch the new episodes as I read today the series has been renewed for another season.

Vaguely I recall seeing advertisements for this series.

I guess the blonde chick was actually what turned me off from actually watching it.

And also, as this note illustrates, I have documented this topic many times before in the past years.

I don't know anything about this television series. I was thinking also tonight "The Walking Dead" could take - or has taken - some lessons on series survivability from "The Simpsons".










I DID NOT see that coming!










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Springfield! Springfield!


Better Call Saul

Uno


Wait, Hamlin was here? It's not like I'm a recluse.
What? He put his cellphone in the mailbox? He understands the situation.
- He grounded himself? - Of course.
And the two of you agreed that since, as everybody knows, you're going back to work any day now, that the firm should help you make ends meet.
That's correct, minus the sarcasm.
Hamlin's making you a chump! I'm going to get better! I'm gonna go back to work, and I'm picking up where I left off! [Sighs] [Chuckles, sighs] [Clock ticking] Sorry.
Sorry, Chuck.
[Inhales deeply] I understand that you're trying to look out for me, but you're missing the bigger picture.
I got it.
[Sighs] Speaking of which Howard brought this.
He's concerned.
What? You have to admit It could be confusing










http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/178.htm

Family [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]

Stardate: 44012.3

Original Airdate: Oct 1, 1990


PICARD: You don't know, Robert. You don't know. They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy, and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them! I tried. I tried so hard










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 4:44 PM Thursday, January 11, 2007


Memory banks

I believe it is not a coincidence that the original IBM PC debuted on 8/12/81.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 11 January 2007 excerpt ends]










http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_fact.html

IBM

Product fact sheet

The following is the text of an IBM Information Systems Division fact sheet distributed to the press on August 12, 1981.



http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_press.html


IBM


Announcement press release

The following is the text of an IBM Information Systems Division press release headlined "Personal Computer Announced By IBM" and distributed on August 12, 1981.

IBM Corporation today announced its smallest, lowest-priced computer system -- the IBM Personal Computer.

Designed for business, school and home, the easy-to-use system sells for as little as $1,565. It offers many advanced features and, with optional software, may use hundreds of popular application programs.
The IBM Personal Computer will be sold through participating ComputerLand dealers and Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s new business machine stores beginning this fall. It will also be sold through IBM Product Centers and a special sales unit in the company's Data Processing Division.

"This is the computer for just about everyone who has ever wanted a personal system at the office, on the university campus or at home," said C. B. Rogers, Jr., IBM vice president and group executive, General Business Group. "We believe its performance, reliability and ease of use make it the most advanced, affordable personal computer in the marketplace."

IBM has designed its Personal Computer for the first-time or advanced user, whether a businessperson in need of accounting help or a student preparing a term paper.
An enhanced version of the popular Microsoft BASIC programming language and easily understood operation manuals are included with every system. They make it possible to begin using the computer within hours and to develop personalized programs quite easily.










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Springfield! Springfield!


Better Call Saul

Uno


"Talk to me," he says.










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm

The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]

Stardate: 3134.0

Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967


SPOCK: You were saying you'll have no trouble explaining it.










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Springfield! Springfield!


Better Call Saul

Uno


[ Saul Goodman: ] " And boom! Hey, that's when it all goes south.










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Springfield! Springfield!


Better Call Saul

Uno


Maybe we should sleep on it.
Oh, oh, please, call me "Jimmy.
" [Chuckles] A Absolutely.
I mean, there's no rush.
You Oh, and, you know, Craig, we got to pick up the kids - Oh.
Right.
Yeah - At theYeah.
Right.
[Chuckles] Well, uh, we will be in touch.
Oh.
Uh, thank you for the coffee and for the advice.
You're very, very welcome.
- Oh! - [Snaps fingers] Um, here.
Take this.
It's, uh It's got my phone number on it.
- Yeah.
Okay.
- Got it.










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm

The City on the Edge of Forever

Stardate: 3134.0

Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967


SPOCK: Unless that is true, Captain, we have no hope. Frustrating. Locked in here is the place and moment of his arrival, even the images of what he did. If only I could tie this tricorder in with the ship's computers for just a few moments.

KIRK: Couldn't you build some form of computer aid here?

SPOCK: In this zinc-plated vacuum-tubed culture?

KIRK: Yes, well, it would pose an extremely complex problem in logic, Mister Spock. Excuse me. I sometimes expect too much of you.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 7:36 PM Saturday, June 23, 2007


This also reminds me that Microsoft had me assigned as a corporate contact for IBM Consulting Services when I worked there. I remember my IBM commenting about how I was the "guy to know" or words to that effect and I wondered why he was telling that to other IBM employees considering the companies we worked for.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 June 2007 excerpt ends]










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Springfield! Springfield!


Better Call Saul

Uno


Well You know, I just think I'd look guilty if I hired a lawyer.
- Yeah.
- No.
Actually, it's getting arrested that makes people look guilty, even the innocent ones, and innocent people get arrested every day.
And they find themselves in a little room with a detective who acts like he's their best friend.
"Talk to me," he says.
Uh, "help me clear this thing up.










From 1/23/1950 ( Richard Dean Anderson ) To 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active United States Marine Corps officer ) is 5762 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/12/1981 ( the Microsoft and IBM Personal Computer 5150 ) is 5762 days



From 1/23/1950 ( Richard Dean Anderson ) To 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) is 2104 days

2104 = 1052 + 1052

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/19/1968 ( premiere US film "Hot Millions" ) is 1052 days


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000760/bio

IMDb


Biography for

Richard Dean Anderson

Date of Birth

23 January 1950, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA










From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 6/1/2014 is 8478 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/18/1989 ( premiere US TV series "A Fine Romance" ) is 8478 days



From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 6/1/2014 is 8478 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/18/1989 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"The Real Life of Ronald Reagan" ) is 8478 days





http://www.tv.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/i-o-3029723/

tv.com


Halt and Catch Fire Season 1 Episode 1

I/O

Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Jun 01, 2014 on AMC

The opener of a drama set during the 1980s computing boom and following the actions of unlikely trio: a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy, all based in Texas's Silicon Prairie.

AIRED: 6/1/14



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3168442/plotsummary

IMDb


Halt and Catch Fire (TV Series)

I/O (2014)

Plot Summary


Dallas, Texas, 1983. Confident Joe MacMillan, a key player in the introduction of the IBM PC, has just been offered a job as a salesman for Cardiff Electric, a systems software company that has no interest in the development of PCs to compete against IBM. What Cardiff Electric is unaware of is that Joe has been MIA for the past year, his whereabouts or doings which no one knows. Despite their less than productive first meeting, Joe searches out Gordon Clark, a lowly engineer at Cardiff Electric. Gordon is floundering in his life, he, along with his wife Donna, who once had the passion of PC hardware development and the potential of computers, but who now feels that the security of a job to support the family is more important despite his generally despondent state because of that job. But Joe entering Gordon's life reignites that passion in Gordon, Joe who wants Gordon to help reverse engineer a IBM PC so that they can develop a PC clone that they want. This action would mean their jobs if found out, and a possible breakup of Gordon's marriage. But Joe has a master plan in this venture which he doesn't initially divulge to Gordon and which takes surprising turns to Gordon. In addition to being more up front with what they're doing to their organizational masters than Gordon believes is prudent, Joe's plan also involves a young prodigious and cocky computer student named Cameron Howe, who also had an interesting first meeting with Joe when he was scoping her potential for the team.










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Waterworld (1995)


- Mutation!










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0931775/releaseinfo

IMDb


A Fine Romance (TV Series)

Pilot (1989)

Release Info

USA 18 January 1989

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0931775/

IMDb


A Fine Romance: Season 1, Episode 1

Pilot (18 Jan. 1989)

TV Episode

Release Date: 18 January 1989 (USA)










http://www.tv.com/shows/frontline/the-real-life-of-ronald-reagan-578205/

tv.com


Frontline Season 7 Episode 1

The Real Life of Ronald Reagan

Aired Tuesday 9:00 PM Jan 18, 1989 on PBS

AIRED: 1/18/89










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire


Halt and Catch Fire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly mnemonic HCF, refers to several computer machine code instructions that cause a computer's CPU to cease meaningful operation. The expression "catch fire" is intended as a joke; the CPU does not literally catch fire, but it does stop functioning. It is also occasionally referred to as "SDI" for "Self Destruct Immediate".


In early CPUs

In a computer's assembly language, mnemonics are used that are directly equivalent to machine code instructions. The mnemonics are frequently three letters long, such as ADD, CMP (to compare two numbers), and JMP (jump to a different location in the program). The HCF instruction was originally a fictitious assembly language instruction, said to be under development at IBM for use in their System/360 computers, along with many other amusing TLAs like XPR (Execute Programmer) and CAI (Corrupt Accounting Information). The S/360 instruction set already included numerous non-obvious mnemonics like ZAP (Zero and Add Packed), EDMK (EDit and MarK), TRT (TRanslate and Test), and Read Backward (an I/O channel command), and programmers began creating similarly cryptic, but fictitious, instructions in a humorous vein.

One apocryphal story about the HCF instruction goes back to the late 1960s, when computers used magnetic core memory. The story goes that in order to speed up the core memory on their next model the engineers increased the read/write currents in the very fine wires that were threaded through the cores. This worked fine when the computer was executing normal programs, since memory accesses were spread throughout memory. However, the HALT instruction was implemented as a "Jump to self". This meant that the same core memory location was repeatedly accessed, and the very fine wires became so hot that they started to smoke — hence the instruction was labeled "Halt and Catch Fire".










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_in_aviation


1985 in aviation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1985


December 31

The Iraqi Air Force claims to have flown 20,011 sorties against Iran, to have made 77 destructive hits on the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island, and to have hit 124 "hostile maritime targets" in the Persian Gulf; Iraq will declare 1985 "The Year of the Pilot." Some reports indicate that Iran has carried out a total of 60 air raids against Kharg Island, and the Iraqi Air Force has attacked more than 200 ships in the Persian Gulf since beginning such attacks in May 1981, with over 150 of those attacks occurring since March 1985. Iraq claims to have bombed Tehran 30 times during 1985.

During 1985, Iraq has made 33 air attacks against shipping in the Persian Gulf, one using bombs and the remainder using air-to-surface missiles, while Iran has conducted 10 air attacks against Persian Gulf shipping. The total of Iraqi air attacks against Persian Gulf shipping since 1984 has reached 68, one using bombs and the rest air-to-surface missiles, while Iran's total since 1984 has reached 28.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Child_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)


The Child (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Child" is the first episode of the second season of the syndicated science fiction television show Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the 27th episode of the show overall. It was first broadcast on November 21, 1988.



http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-the-next-generation/the-child-19014/

tv.com


Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episode 1

The Child

Aired Unknown Nov 21, 1988 on CBS

AIRED: 11/21/88



http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/127.htm

The Child [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]

Stardate: 42073.1

Original Airdate: 21 Nov, 1988


[Bridge]

PICARD: Report, Mister La Forge.

[Cargo deck five]

LAFORGE: Captain, we've checked everything. There's no reason for this to be happening. I can't even isolate the cause of the problem.










http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/128.htm

Where Silence Has Lease [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]

Stardate: 42193.6

Original Airdate: 28 Nov, 1988


LAFORGE: Sure is a damned ugly nothing.

PICARD: I am Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise. representing a Federation of planets in this part of the galaxy. Can you identify whoever or whatever you are?

NAGILUM [on viewscreen]: Nagilum.

LAFORGE: Speaks right up for something your sensors say isn't there, Data.

PICARD: We still have no idea what you represent.

NAGILUM [on viewscreen]: Data.

DATA: Nagilum?

NAGILUM: You are of different construction than the others. Interesting. Picard, Riker, Geordi, Haskell. What are you? Your construction also differs.

(Pulaski is suddenly whipped around like a puppet on a string)

PULASKI: My construction?

DATA: Perhaps referring to your gender, Doctor?

PULASKI: Yes, well, there are minor differences. I'm what we call a female.

NAGILUM [on viewscreen]: I understand. The masculine and the feminine.

PICARD: It is the way in which we propagate our species.

NAGILUM [on viewscreen]: Please, demonstrate how this is accomplished.

PULASKI: Not likely.










http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/129.htm

Elementary, Dear Data [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]

Stardate: 42486.3

Original Airdate: 5 Dec, 1988


DATA: Is there a problem? Chief Engineer La Forge called for me, urgent.

CLANCY: Oh, of course. He's over there, with the Victory.

DATA: Geordi, I just had a strange conversation with your assistant. Although it is three days until we rendezvous with starship Victory, she

LAFORGE: She believes it has already arrived? Not the starship, my friend. The original.

(in a side alcove is a wonderful replica of HMS Victory, bunting and all)

LAFORGE: This is my gift to the Victory's Captain Zimbata.

DATA: Most unusual.

LAFORGE: I served with him an ensign. Sure wish he'd been in command of this Victory. Wind and sail, that's the proper way to move a ship.

DATA: But, Geordi, your Starfleet specialty is antimatter power, dilithium regulators

LAFORGE: That's exactly why this fascinates me, Data. You see, it's human nature to love what we don't have. Simpler days, huh? Anyway, stringing this rigging has made me dream of handling sails.

DATA: This is not a computer simulation?










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)


Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers, that premiered on AMC on June 1, 2014. The series is set in the Silicon Prairie of Texas in 1983 and depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution. The show's title refers to computer machine code instruction HCF, whose execution would cause the computer's central processing unit to stop working (but not really catch fire).

On August 20, 2014, AMC renewed Halt and Catch Fire for a second season.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:54 AM Friday, March 23, 2012


So what? I mean, who cares? WHY ARE THEY TRYING SO HARD?


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 March 2012 excerpt ends]



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:45 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 15 February 2015