From 3/3/1959 to 12/7/1998 is 14524 days
14524 = 7262 + 7262
From 7/16/1963 to 6/3/1983 ( premiere US film "WarGames" ) is 7262 days
TRON (1982)
Master Control Program: You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic.
Sark: Thank you, Master Control.
Master Control Program: We've kidnapped some military programs. I can arrange more lethal matches. Interested?
Sark: Sure. I'd love to go up against one of those guys. It'd make a nice break from those accounting cream puffs you keep sending me. What branch of the service?
Master Control Program: Strategic Air Command.
Sark: Nice!
Crom: Hey, look. This is all a mistake. I'm just a compound interest program.
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents ) To 12/1/1988 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Nomination of Colin L. Powell To Be Commander in Chief of the United States Army Forces Command, With the Rank of General ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( as me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, my first day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 ) is 12088 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents ) To 12/1/1988 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Informal Exchange With Reporters on Colonel Oliver North ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 12088 days
From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 2/24/1986 ( from The New York Times newspaper: Execution for Military Spies ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 12088 days
From 8/17/1939 ( premiere US film "The Wizard of Oz" ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
From 7/26/1947 ( the United States of America Central Intelligence Agency established ) To 8/29/1980 ( I'm only 14-years-old and Thedia just got married again for the 5th time to some different Arkansas yokel, all during my lifetime ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 12088 days
From 5/4/1960 ( from events described in Blue Ridge Country publication ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 12088 days
From 10/18/1931 ( Herbert Hoover, President of USA: Message of Sympathy on the Death of Thomas Alva Edison ) To 11/21/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 12088 days
From 10/18/1931 ( Thomas Alva Edison dead ) To 11/21/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 12088 days
From 10/4/1955 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"::"Wyatt Earp Comes to Wichita" ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) is 7885 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 12/7/1998 ( ) is 2882 days
2882 = 1441 + 1441
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/13/1969 ( Nancy Kerrigan ) is 1441 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 12/7/1998 ( ) is 2539 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1972 ( from Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: hereby proclaim Sunday, October 15, 1972, as National Shut-In Day ) is 2539 days
From 7/9/1982 ( premiere US film "TRON" ) To 12/7/1998 ( ) is 5995 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/2/1982 ( premiere US film "Silent Rage" ) is 5995 days
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Release Info
USA 17 August 1939 (New York City, New York)
Full Cast & Crew
Jack Haley ... The Tin Man
album: "The Moon & Antarctica" (2000)
Modest Mouse
"Third Planet"
My boss just quit the job
Says he's going out to find blind spots
And he'll do it
The third planet is sure that they're being watched
By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084684/releaseinfo
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Silent Rage (1982)
Release Info
USA 2 April 1982
Full Cast & Crew
Chuck Norris ... Dan Stevens
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/releaseinfo
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TRON (1982)
Release Info
USA 9 July 1982
Full Cast & Crew
Jeff Bridges ... Kevin Flynn / Clu
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/quotes
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TRON (1982)
Quotes
Alan Bradley: [about the digitizing laser] Great. Can it send me to Hawaii?
Lora: Yep, but you gotta purchase your program 30 days in advance. How's it going upstairs?
Alan Bradley: Frustrating. I had Tron almost ready, when Dillinger cut everyone with Group-7 access out of the system. I tell you ever since he got that Master Control Program, the system's got more bugs than a bait store.
Dr. Walter Gibbs: [laughs] You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think.
Alan Bradley: Some programs will be thinking soon.
Dr. Walter Gibbs: Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.
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Blue Ridge Country
Francis Gary Powers: The Virginia Boy Who Spied On Russia And Came Home To Tell About It
by Ellen Richardson
Editor's Note: This reader-favorite story was originally published in the May/June 2001 issue of Blue Ridge Country magazine.
May 4, 1960 Pound, Va. Ida Powers wiped her hands on her cotton apron and looked out, past the barn and Mill Branch, looked up to the hillsides, lush with new leaves in shades of olive and lime and emerald. Severe asthma was keeping her from working in the garden these days. Ida thought about her five daughters, about her grandchildren, about her husband, Oliver, no longer working the coal mines but at work in his shoe shop in nearby Norton. She thought about her only son, Francis, now living overseas with his new wife.
Ida Powers' hometown was close to the Kentucky line. "The Pound" - as those who live there call it - tucks itself into a natural corral, or pound, where the North Fork of the Pound River forms a nearly closed horseshoe bend. Ringed by the closely buckled, tree-laden Appalachians, The Pound was a small, close community, isolated and quiet. Nearly every able man worked in the mines or mine-related businesses. Jack Goff, married to Ida and Oliver's daughter Jean, ran a shoe shop downtown, near the Pound Hardware. Folks from Kentucky came to the little community to buy their liquor, to do a little shopping, to socialize. Teenagers drove up to nearby Flag Rock to gaze at the moon and into each other's eyes, or parked and looked out over Powell Valley toward Big Stone Gap, dreaming of the world beyond Wise County. Many of them would move away to find work outside the mines.
Everybody knew everybody. And everybody, even the schoolchildren, shared the same uneasiness as the rest of the free world over the threats of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. It seemed unimaginable that Communism could threaten these people or these blue mountains with their tumbling streams and rivers. Still, there were those duck-and-cover drills in the schools, the talk of fall-out shelters, the fear of invasion or global destruction. Ida glanced at the sky and said another little prayer for Francis. Why, he might be up there flying right now in that new weather plane, so many thousands of miles from the mountains he loved.
She smiled as she thought of her quiet, handsome boy, now 30 years old. He was as determined to fly as his father was determined that Francis would never work in the mines, that he would become a doctor. But after Francis graduated from Milligan College in Tennessee, he joined the Air Force, and had been unable to come home often since. Ida turned back from the door. She would just have to trust God to take care of her son.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., final preparations were under way for the upcoming Paris Peace Summit, at which the fiery, unpredictable Khrushchev would sit down with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Khrushchev had rejected Ike's "Open Skies" policy, creating a dangerous lack of knowledge about the perceived "bomber gap" and the "missile gap."
No one knew if the Soviets might dare attack the United States. After all, hadn't Khrushchev pounded his shoe on the United Nations table in defiance, hadn't he threatened America: "We will bury you!"?
On clear, starry nights, Wise County residents watched the Russian-launched satellite, Sputnik, as it circled the globe. Was it taking pictures?
In downtown Norton, 15 miles south of The Pound, Bill Hendrick left his office at the weekly Coalfield Progress. He heard a coal train rumble by on the tracks below town, and he waved to Oliver Powers through the window of the Norton City Shoe Shop. Bill stopped for a chat and a cup of coffee at Passmore's Drugstore with department-store owner Sol Curry and Norton attorney Carl McAfee.
He told the men that an announcement would run in Thursday's paper that the Norton Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Campaign in preparation for the big industrial tour would continue through May 14. They talked about how Eisenhower would soon approve funds for a new dam and reservoir on the river, and that it would bring dependable drinking water and a recreation lake to the area. Tourism would increase. The mines dictated the economy, and Wise County needed to diversify.
Into this ordinary May morning, two men in suits got out of an unfamiliar automobile and entered Norton City Shoe Shop.
"Mr. Oliver Powers?" one of them asked.
"Yes, I'm Oliver Powers."
"I'm afraid we have some news about your son. He left his base in Turkey on Sunday and his plane is missing."
They could tell him nothing more.
Missing? Stunned, Oliver drove to The Pound and turned onto the old dirt road toward the family homeplace. How could he ever tell Ida, and would her fragile heart and lungs withstand the very thing that a mother's heart most fears? Was Francis alive? Why didn't those men know more, and what was the United States government going to do about his son?
Ida cried, of course, and asked questions that had no answers. She sat for hours by the radio, listening for news of her son.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 12:29 AM Pacific-time USA Sunday 05/29/2022
