Today is Thursday, 03/17/2022, Post #1

Contact (1997)

Ellie Arroway: Some celestial event. No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet.









"Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" series of novels, Book 4

Chapter 6: Elvi

"I'm done sacrificing things to science," he said, and the buzz in his voice was a promise of violence. Lucia put a restraining hand on the man's wrist, but others around the room had taken up the man's disdain. The sounds of their bodies shifting in the seats, the murmur of voices in small conversations of their own filled the air. Whoever killed Trying is probably in this room, she thought. And then immediately after that, What the hell am I doing here?









From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 3/17/2022 ( Today, Thursday ) is 8627 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/1989 ( premiere US film "Ghostbusters II" ) is 8627 days



From 7/22/2005 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official records United States Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital in Seattle: "Mr. Burgess checked into Urgent Care this AM complaining of constipation" - Psychiatry Emergency Services ) To 3/17/2022 ( ) is 6082 days

6082 = 3041 + 3041

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/1/1974 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"Doomsday, and Counting" ) is 3041 days



From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 3/17/2022 ( ) is 10002 days

10002 = 5001 + 5001

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/1979 ( premiere US film "Dracula" ) is 5001 days



From 3/24/1882 ( Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dead ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 41178 days

41178 = 20589 + 20589

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/17/2022 ( ) is 20589 days



From 2/26/1941 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Robinson Jeffers, one of the most powerful figures in contemporary American verse, will lecture on poetry ) To 7/11/1997 ( premiere US film "Contact" ) is 20589 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/17/2022 ( ) is 20589 days



From 1/5/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Galileo Seven" ) To 3/17/2022 ( ) is 20160 days

20160 = 10080 + 10080

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days









"The Galileo Seven" [ Star Trek ]

Original Airdate: 5 Jan, 1967

(from internet transcript)

MCCOY: Studying us, Mister Spock? They seem to learn rather quickly.

BOMA: All right, Spock, you have all the answers. What now?

SPOCK: Mister Boma, your tone is increasingly hostile.

BOMA: My tone isn't the only thing that's hostile, Mister Spock!

SPOCK: Curious. Most illogical.

BOMA: I'm sick and tired of your logic!

MEARS: We could use a little inspiration.

SPOCK: Strange. Step by step, I have made the correct and logical decisions. And yet two men have died.

MCCOY: And you've brought our furry friends down on us.

SPOCK: I do seem to have miscalculated regarding them, and inculcated resentment on your parts. The sum of the parts cannot be greater than the whole.

MCCOY A little less analysis and more action. That's what we need, Mister Spock.









The Simpsons

Season 13 Episode 18

"I Am Furious (Yellow)"

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 28, 2002 on FOX

Quotes

Lisa: The speakers are poor because we're letting just anybody do it. Groundskeeper Willie, Groundskeeper Willie's enemy, Shamus...

Principal Skinner: Aw, yeah, Shamus... twenty minutes of watching a man drink whiskey in the bathtub. Shamus, we won't need you to speak anymore.

Shamus: What? What! Oh, so this is your doin', Willie? I'll turn yer groin to puddin'!

Groundskeeper Willie: Aw, you speak like a poet, but you punch like one too!









https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19410226-01.2.11&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------

Daily Princetonian, Volume 66, Number 26, 26 February 1941









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers

From Wikipedia

John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers's poetry was written in narrative and epic form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of "inhumanism", Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. This led him to oppose U.S. participation in World War II, a stance that resulted in him being censored by the media.









"The Galileo Seven" [ Star Trek ]

Original Airdate: 5 Jan, 1967

(from internet transcript)

SPOCK: I have a certain scientific curiosity about what's become of Mister Gaetano. Return to the ship, please.

(Spock leaves)

MCCOY: I don't know. He'll risk his neck locating Gaetano and if he finds him, he's just as liable to order him to stay behind. You tell me.

BOMA: Do you really think the ship will ever leave?

MCCOY: Well, it won't unless we get these phasers back.

(Further on, Spock finds Gaetano's body draped over a rock. He picks him up in a fireman's lift and heads back to the shuttlecraft with him. Spears are thrown.



- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 06:33 AM Pacific-time USA Thursday 03/17/2022