Previously, here on Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home:
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2022/04/today-is-04152022-post-2.html
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 11:06 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Today is 04/15/2022, Post #2
That was interesting as hell.
Outer Range
"The Void"
(from internet transcript)
Cecelia Abbott: We're leaving for church in five.
Royal Abbott: It's not even 8:00.
Grandpa, it's 10:00 a.m.
Time to get a cell phone, Pops.
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19670203-01.2.2&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Daily Princetonian, Volume 91, Number 1, 3 February 1967
Dicke Throws Doubt On Gravity Theory
By ROBERT L. HERBST
Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation is questionable, physics professor Robert H. Dicke '39 told an astrophysics conference
Outer Range
"The Void"
(from internet transcript)
["HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION".] [CONGREGATION.] How firm a foundation Ye saints of the Lord Is laid for your faith In His excellent Word What more can He say Than to you He hath said To you who For refuge to Jesus have fled
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19930420-01.2.19&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Daily Princetonian, Volume 117, Number 53, 20 April 1993
A farewell to Princeton seniors
Last Thursday night, a friend of mine came up with the topic for this week's column. It concerns the collective group whom on campus we refer to as "Seniors." Perhaps you've seen them around, throwing a frisbee in your courtyard, reading the newest Danielle Steele, or starting weekend festivities a bit early, say Tuesday afternoon.
In some ways, now is the best time to write a column about seniors. Most of them are out of the carrels and are actually reading newspapers.
From 7/3/1886 ( Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen ) To 5/28/1999 ( premiere US film "The Thirteenth Floor" ) is 41236 days
41236 = 20618 + 20618
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/15/2022 ( ) is 20618 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 4/15/2022 ( ) is 10031 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/20/1993 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: A Farewell To Princeton Seniors ) is 10031 days
From 2/3/1967 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation is questionable, physics professor Robert H. Dicke '39 told an astrophysics conference ) To 4/15/2022 ( ) 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
From 1/16/1925 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: DARWINISM QUESTIONED BY VANUXEM LECTURER Dr. Louis Trenchard More Dissects Long-Standing Ideas Of Great Scientist. ) To 4/15/2022 ( ) is 35518 days
35518 = 17759 + 17759
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/17/2014 ( "Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" Book 4 ) is 17759 days
From 10/3/1934 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: UNIVERSITY DEANS WARN STUDENT ESSAY WRITERS Deans Gauss And Root Advise Against Use Of Outside Assistance In Preparing Written Work. HEAVY PENALTY FOR VIOLATION ) To 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly - or something - the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) is 20618 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/15/2022 ( ) is 20618 days
From 9/26/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal, previously referenced ) To 4/15/2022 ( ) is 5680 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/22/1981 ( premiere US film "Outland" ) is 5680 days
From 12/31/1969 ( premiere US film "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" ) To 4/15/2022 ( ) is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1991 ( 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 as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11866190/
IMDb
Outer Range
The Void
Episode airs Apr 15, 2022
S1 E1
Top cast
Josh Brolin as Royal Abbott
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14681390/
IMDb
Outer Range
The Land
Episode aired Apr 15, 2022
S1 E2
The Abbott family frantically conspires to cover up their crimes but can't piece together what has happened to Royal.
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19930420-01.2.19&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Daily Princetonian, Volume 117, Number 53, 20 April 1993
A farewell to Princeton seniors
On the newest crush: "Yeah, she's really cute. If only she washed her hair again."
On Bosnia-Herzegovina: "Say, do you think I should write this thing in Times or Geneva?"
Outer Range
"The Void"
(from internet transcript)
Something I can do for you?
[AUTUMN.] Oh, God, I sure hope so. I'm looking for the Abbott Ranch. Am I near it?
Yeah, you're at it. It's mine. Where you from, Boulder, Missoula?
Boulder. Oh, what gave it away?
Outer Range (2022) s01e02
"The Land"
(from internet transcript)
Cecelia Abbott: Tell me you did not drive through my gate. Tell me that, please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886
1886
From Wikipedia
July 3 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen
Benz Patent-Motorwagen
From Wikipedia
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Carl Benz, is widely regarded as the world's first practical automobile, a self-propelled vehicle for carrying people, and first car put into series production. It was patented and unveiled in 1886. The original cost of the vehicle in 1886 was 600 imperial German marks, approximately 150 US dollars (equivalent to $4,524 in 2021).
Karl's wife Bertha demonstrated its feasibility in a trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim in August 1888, shortly before it became the first commercially available automobile in history in the late summer of 1888.
The Simpsons
"The Front"
(from internet transcript of dialog)
Roger Meyers Jr.: You're a comedy writer? My God, you're so old.
Grandpa Simpson: I want my check!
Roger Meyers Jr.: (Laughs) You're a writer, all right.
From 5/14/1990 ( departing as enlisted United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer (FC2)(E-5) Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) To 4/15/1993 ( ) is 1067 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) is 1067 days
From 1/20/1930 ( Buzz Aldrin ) To 12/14/1984 ( premiere US film "Starman" & premiere US film "Nineteen Eighty-Four" & premiere US film "Dune" & premiere US film "Runaway" ) is 20052 days
20052 = 10026 + 10026
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/15/1993 ( ) is 10026 days
From 7/20/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) To 4/15/1993 ( ) is 8670 days
8670 = 4335 + 4335
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/15/1977 ( premiere US TV series "CHiPs" ) is 4335 days
From 9/9/1965 ( James Stockdale the United States Navy A-4 Skyhawk pilot and the United States Navy carrier air group commander was captured by North Vietnam and held as Prisoner of War ) To 4/15/1993 ( ) is 10080 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( in the future: commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 12/25/1991 ( 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 as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 4/15/1993 ( ) is 477 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/22/1967 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Brizius Calls On YRs' Membership To Denounce CIA ) is 477 days
From 1/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 4/15/1993 ( ) is 820 days
820 = 410 + 410
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/17/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "ABC Scope"::"Vietnam Report: Help Yourself to Freedom" ) is 410 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701237/
IMDb
The Simpsons
The Front
Episode aired Apr 15, 1993
S4 E19
Bart and Lisa convince Grampa to let them use his name for episodes of "Itchy and Scratchy" they have written; Homer re-takes a test he failed in high school.
"The City on the Edge of Forever" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: Time we faced the unpleasant facts.
SPOCK: First, I believe we have about a week before McCoy arrives, but we can't be certain.
KIRK: Arrives where? Honolulu, Boise, San Diego? Why not Outer Mongolia, for that matter?
SPOCK: There is a theory. There could be some logic to the belief that time is fluid, like a river, with currents, eddies, backwash.
KIRK: And the same currents that swept McCoy to a certain time and place might sweep us there, too.
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.
by me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerprs from my private journal: 12/27/06 12:07 PM
As I have written, I have been thinking that I started at Princeton University on September 2, 1965.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 9:00:13 PM
So I started to talk and read very early and I also began to develop other skills very early. Through some process that I do not yet recall well enough to describe, I was allowed to secretly compete at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and I won several gold medals. From that accomplishment, I was considered the best candidate to go out into space in the next decade, where 10 years is a very, very short time to have to consider that a plan had to be created and then carried out to travel into deep space and to carry enough nuclear weapons to divert a very large mountain of rock that was screaming towards Earth.
They could have trained older people to go out and carry out the mission but a factor about me was that I was still going to be young enough that, if I survived the actual mission, then there was going to be a good chance that I would be able to lead a normal life without being debilitated from living in the weightlessness of deep space for over a year.
Back in the early 1960's, there was hardly anything really known about space travel. The first American astronaut did not go into space until May 1961 and that was only for a few minutes. I was going to have to live and work in deep space for well over a year. Who could even begin to imagine the kinds of problems I would suffer from that kind of extreme environment.
So I became the candidate for the mission because I was the best choice. As I mentioned, I had already graduated from Princeton in 1969 with a medical degree. I started there on 9/2/1965, at the age of 6 years, and I started actually as an instructor of graduate students. I could already pass all the requirements from the medical degree but they decided that the basis for my graduation would be if I could teach a group of graduate students well enough that they could pass the tests
The Simpsons
"The Front"
(from internet transcript of dialog)
Roger Meyers Jr.: (Laughs) You're a writer, all right. Here you go, Simpson.
Grandpa Simpson: I want another one!
Roger Meyers Jr.: You're a funny guy. How would you like a staff job? I'll start you at $800 a week.
Grandpa Simpson: My chest hurts.
Roger Meyers Jr.: All right, leeches, I want you to see what a good writer looks like. His name is Abraham Simpson and he's got something you couldn't get at your fancy schools - life experience.
Writer: Actually, you know, I wrote my thesis on life experience, and -
Roger Meyers Jr.: Quiet!
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19921014&slug=1518564
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, October 14, 1992
Quayle, Gore Set Themes For Last Weeks -- Stockdale Never Answers Own Query: `Why Am I Here?'
Times News Services
It may be remembered more for its furious, even nasty partisanship than for any impact it might have on the outcome of 1992 presidential election.
But yesterday's clash of the running mates did reveal that the campaigns have decided on lines of attack for the next three weeks: President Bush against Bill Clinton's character and tax policies; Clinton against Bush's economic record; and Ross Perot against Washington politicians and their deficit.
In yesterday's debate, Vice President Dan Quayle and Sen. Al Gore Jr. of Tennessee did a better job articulating their campaigns' basic messages than President Bush and Arkansas Gov. Clinton did in Sunday's low-energy affair.
In the crossfire, retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale often seemed lost - a civilian who had wandered into a private war.
The succession of sharp clashes between Quayle and Gore over taxes, trust and character gave this debate a much rougher edge than the decorous first encounter between the presidential contenders. But traditionally, the vice-presidential debates have only minimally affected the outcome of presidential campaigns.
An ABC poll taken immediately after the debate showed Clinton leading Bush 47 percent to 38 percent, with Perot trailing at 12 percent. Those figures were virtually unchanged from a poll completed before the debate.
If yesterday's debate has any impact, some observers said, it may be to diminish the momentum Perot generated Sunday.
Although Stockdale's earthy directness occasionally echoed Perot's own success at knifing through his opponents' stilted political rhetoric, more often he appeared uncertain and overmatched; for long stretches in the free-form debate he disappeared entirely. Stockdale, a senior research fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University, never seemed to entirely answer the question he posed at the outset: "Why am I here?"
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 11:04 AM Pacific-time USA Sunday 04/17/2022
