by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/19/2024 5:42 PM
"Attack 'em"
Final FU from Joe Biden. Letting Trump stop it to help his pal, Vladmir Putin
You see how those parrots are still squawking about that ridiculous "A.I."?
That's how those parrots in the mainstream-media are helping THEM build their propaganda "maskirovka"
*You* think "AI" is a real thing because *you* are not tech-savvy.
At least 50 years of modern meteorology (from Ancient Greek: "a thing in the air") and they still can't predict cyclone forming in the Pacific Northwest. I didn't start hearing about it (and I stay informed) until yesterday and it begins to impact us here in Spokane in less than 12 hours. Snowfall is a fact-of-life here to residents of Spokane but as they say on the tv-news, the first big snowfall of the season makes traffic at rush-hour especially chaotic
"Salute 2 Service"
All we see is it's all about *you*
You're a greedy corporation of mainstream-media using the good name of USA military veteran's to peddle your crappy product.
You're pathetic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c87xqd0n1zgt
https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=6944
Department of the Navy
United States of America
Presidential Yacht Sailors Reunite with Historic Ship
Story Number: NNS030420-04Release Date: 4/19/2003 7:28:00 PM
By Jack A. Green, Naval Historical Center Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy Museum at the historic Washington Navy Yard played host to the first crew reunion for former Presidential Yacht USS Sequoia (AG 23).
In service at the Washington Navy Yard for 45 years until sold by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, Sequoia served presidents, heads of state and dignitaries from around the world.
"The officers and Sailors who crewed the yacht from post World War II to its decommissioning assembled at the museum to swap sea stories, show multitudes of photographs, display memorabilia and generally get re-acquainted after 25 years or more," said Kim Nielsen, director of the Navy Museum.
The highlight of the reunion was an afternoon cruise aboard the still-proud Sequoia on the waters of the Potomac, provided by current owner Gary Silversmith. Former captains and crew took their places at the helm and on deck, while their families enjoyed the ships presidential quarters.
The shipmates also restated their encouragement to the USS Sequoia Foundation in its efforts to help preserve the vessel for posterity.
The Mathis Yacht Building Co., of Camden, N.J., built Sequoia to a John Trumpy design in 1925-1926 for $200,000. Trumpy was a famous yacht designer who by 1917 had designed more than 47 such vessels that set an industry standard in the United States. His clients included the DuPonts, the Guggenheims, along with the Dodge and Chrysler families to name a few.
Acquired by the U.S. government in 1931, it was commissioned March 25, 1933, as Sequoia in the U.S. Navy, to serve as the Presidential Yacht.
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 11/19/2024 ( ) is 13682 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/2003 ( ) is 13682 days
From 11/5/1880 ( ) To 12/11/1998 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: Insurrection" ) is 43134 days
43134 = 21567 + 21567
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/19/2024 ( ) is 21567 days
https://www.facebook.com/GarfieldNPS/photos/from-president-elect-james-a-garfields-diary-november-5-1880-the-mail-increases-/947990307363374/?_rdr
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-1000-days-attack-06002c8c50bfb2fc622f446a8580bc0e
AP
Ukraine fires several US-made longer-range missiles into Russia for the first time
By HANNA ARHIROVA and ILLIA NOVIKOV
Updated 11:07 AM PST, November 19, 2024
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine fired several American-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia, officials said Tuesday, marking the first time Kyiv used the weapons that way in 1,000 days of war.
The use of the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 3 – Correlation of Forces
MOSCOW, R.S.F.S.R.
"They didn't ask me," explained Chief of the General Staff Marshal Shavyrin. "They didn't ask for my evaluation. The political decision was already made when they called me in Thursday night. When was the last time the Defense Minister asked me for a substantive judgmental decision?"
"And what did you say?" asked Marshal Rozhkov, Commander-in-Chief of Ground Forces. The initial response was a grim, ironic smile.
"That the armed forces of the Soviet Union were able to carry out this task, given four months of preparation."
"Four months . . ." Rozhkov stared out the window. He turned back. "We won't be ready."
"Hostilities will commence on 15 June," Shavyrin replied. "We must be ready, Yuri. And what choice did I have? Would you have had me say, 'I am sorry, Comrade General Secretary, but the Soviet Army is unable to carry out this task'? I would have been dismissed and replaced by someone more tractable-you know who my replacement will be. Would you rather answer to Marshal Bukharin-"
"That fool!" Rozhkov growled. It had been the then-Lieutenant General Bukharin whose brilliant plan had led the Soviet Army into Afghanistan. Professionally a nonentity, his political connections had not only saved him, but continued his career to near the pinnacle of uniformed power. A clever man, Bukharin. Never involved in the mountain campaigns himself, he could point to his brilliant paper plan and complain that it had been poorly executed, after he had moved on to command of the Kiev Military District, historically the shining gate of marshal's rank.
"So, would you have him in this office, dictating your plans to you?" Shavyrin asked. Rozhkov shook his head. The two men had been friends and comrades since each had commanded a tank troop in the same regiment, just in time for the final surge toward Vienna in 1945.
"How are we to go about it?" Rozhkov asked.
"Red Storm," the Marshal replied simply.
From 5/13/1983 ( premiere USA film "Blue Thunder" ) To 11/19/2024 ( ) is 15166 days
15166 = 7583 + 7583
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) is 7583 days
From 1/17/1991 ( Operation Desert Storm begins AND 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 US 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 11/19/2024 ( ) is 12360 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/5/1999 ( biographical - Allen Funt dead ) is 12360 days
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: I won't let you move them, Admiral. I will take this to the Federation Council.
DOUGHERTY: I'm acting on orders form the Federation Council.
PICARD: How can there be an order to abandon the Prime Directive?
DOUGHERTY: The Prime Directive doesn't apply. These people are not indigenous to this planet. They were never meant to be immortal. We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.
PICARD: Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?
DOUGHERTY: Jean-Luc, there are six hundred people down there. We'll be able to use the regenerative properties of this radiation to help billions. ...The Son'a have developed a procedure to collect the metaphasic particles from the planets rings.
PICARD: A planet in Federation space.
DOUGHERTY: That's right. We have the planet. They have the technology. ...A technology we can't duplicate. You know what that makes us? ...Partners.
PICARD: Our partners are nothing more than petty thugs.
DOUGHERTY: On Earth, petroleum once turned petty thugs into world leaders. Warp drive transformed a bunch of Romulan thugs into an Empire. We can handle the Son'a. I'm not worried about that.
PICARD: Someone probably said the same thing about the Romulans a century ago.
DOUGHERTY: With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. ...An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your Chief Engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. ...Would you take that away from him?
PICARD: There are metaphasic particles all over the Briar Patch. Why does it have to be this planet?
DOUGHERTY: It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damned thing work. Don't ask me to explain it. I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. When it's over, the planet will be uninhabitable for generations.
PICARD: Admiral, delay the procedure. Let my people look at the technology.
DOUGHERTY: Our best scientific minds already have. We can't find any other way to do this.
PICARD: Then the Son'a can establish a separate colony on this planet until we do.
DOUGHERTY: It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that long. Besides, they don't want to live in the middle of the Briar Patch. ...Who would?
PICARD: The Ba'ku. ...We are betraying the principles upon which the Federation was founded. It's an attack upon its very soul. ...And it will destroy the Ba'ku ...just as cultures have been destroyed in every other forced relocation throughout history.
DOUGHERTY: Jean-Luc, we are only moving six hundred people.
PICARD: How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people does it take, Admiral?
DOUGHERTY: I'm ordering you to the Goren system. I'm also ordering the release of the Son'a officers. File whatever protest you wish to, Captain. ...By the time you do, this will all be done.
[Picard's quarters]
(Picard returns to his quarters and removes the pips from his collar)
[Son'a body enhancement facility]
RU'AFO: Gallatin! So the righteous Starfleet Captain finally released you.
GALLATIN: Yes sir.
RU'AFO: Did you encounter any problems on the surface?
GALLATIN: No sir. ...But it wasn't easy being among them.
RU'AFO: I'm sure. Just don't forget what they did to us. ...We'll have them rounded up in a day or two. We needn't bother with the Federation holoship any more. Just get the holding cells ready.
GALLATIN: Yes sir.
RU'AFO: (to an Elloran attendant) I'm going to miss these little flesh-stretching sessions of ours, my dear.
[Captain's yacht]
DATA: Re-routing the transport grid to avoid detection was wise, sir. However the transporter is rarely used after oh two hundred hours.
(Geordi and Riker (in uniform), Troi, Worf, Crusher and Data (in civilian clothes) descend on a lift)
TROI: Taking the Captain's yacht out for a spin?
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/18/2024 03:49 AM
Fairly certain I discovered this book and read it back in the late-1980s, around the same time my fascination began with Stephen King's "The Stand", about 2 years before the "complete" edition was released under his name
I always remember this story but could never remember its name. I remember it because, while a good book, it was disappointing to me that it was written in a time the USA was largely foreign to us born 20 years later. Some of the references, because I immersed myself in it, seemed almost a foreign land, with the terminology of certain items. That made it less relatable to me, escaping as I was trying to and the freedom of roaming an empty landscape and the freedom I naively wanted it to bring me.
I can remember the ending of the story, after he becomes an old man. There is something about the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Those children that live well after civilization disappears are fascinated by the rivets in Levi's denim jeans.
No solar-panels to salvage. Certainly not even so much as 8-track cassette players. Would have been an endless supply of vinyl LP records. No dentists. Certainly no medical-doctors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1573253/bio/
IMDb
Alexander Ludwig
Biography
Born May 7, 1992 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
draft - original work by me, Kerry Burgess, first update, 11/18/2024
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 6769 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted sailor ) is 6769 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 6769 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) is 6769 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 20841 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/24/2022 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, referenced here ) is 20841 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26443935/
IMDb
Earth Abides
TV Series
2024–
After months of isolation, Isherwood "Ish" Williams, learns that most of the world has fallen to a mysterious illness. Yet despite his instincts to further isolate, Ish leads the charge to develop a new civilization.
Series premiere
S1.E1
Episode #1.1
Sun, Dec 1, 2024
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: May 20, 2017 6:27am
And too add on that is my memory of about the year 1978. Theda was married to Randy Romine at the time and at his house he had a really tall High Amplitude Modulation tower antenna. I climbed it often in the dark of night and I used it sometimes to drop my "R2-D2" model rocket to test its parachute. I couldn't afford the Estes chemical rockets back then so the only way it could get airborne was for me to drop it from the high altitude of that tower. I thought of that often years later when my occupation in the United States Navy was to ensure the accuracy and computer fire control of guided missiles and gunfire.
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 31, 2006
There is also that memory I have written about before where I climbed up on Randy Romine's 100 foot HAM radio antenna. One time I went up there with my first model rocket, the one that was fashioned as R2D2 from Star Wars. Then it dawned on me a few hours later: Of course! R2D2 is shaped a lot like the external fuel tank and the solid-rocket boosters for the space shuttle.
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/28/07 2:18 AM
the doctors had told Randy he would never walk again because he had stepped on a landmine.
From 7/20/1946 ( Randy Romine [purported Purple Heart medal recipient from US Marines and Vietnam veteran and was one of several former step-father when I was child as Kerry Burgess] ) To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 16728 days
16728 = 8364 + 8364
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/26/1988 ( US Navy ends convoy duty in the Persian Gulf ) is 8364 days
From 12/7/1941 ( the US Navy Pacific Fleet severely damaged in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii ) To 5/7/1992 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( 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 ) is 9207 days
From 6/3/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) To 5/7/1992 is 1434 days
1434 = 717 + 717
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/20/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Doomsday Machine" ) is 717 days
From 2/10/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Remarks After Inspecting the Missile Test Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida ) To 8/15/1986 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Statement on the Building of a Fourth Shuttle Orbiter and the Future of the Space Program ) is 9683 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/1992 is 9683 days
From 1/20/1961 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Whole Truth" ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 11430 days
11430 = 5715 + 5715
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/26/1981 ( premiere USA film "Stripes" ) is 5715 days
From 2/28/1920 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: UNIVERSITY MACHINE IS VERY BADLY WRECKED ; Anthony Antoninus, Campus Employee, Gets In Way Of Ford Which Was Newly Purchased. ) To 3/7/1973 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 9683 days
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-08/news/mn-1910_1_space-station-assembly
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Difficult Maiden Flight : Science: The mission includes three spacewalks, practice for space station assembly and rescue of a communications satellite.
May 08, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Dodging gusty winds and threatening thunderstorms, the shuttle Endeavour, the nation's newest orbiter, found a hole in the clouds Thursday and blasted off on its maiden voyage.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/the-whole-truth-12634/trivia/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 14
The Whole Truth
Aired Jan 20, 1961
(Opening Narration)
Narrator: This, as the banner already has proclaimed, is Mr. Harvey Hunnicut, an expert on commerce and con jobs, a brash, bright, and larceny-loaded wheeler and dealer who, when the good lord passed out a conscience, must have gone for a beer and missed out.
The Twilight Zone
The Whole Truth
Aired Jan 20, 1961
Old Man: By the way, Mr. Hunnicut, there is one other small item I ought to mention to you about the car. It's haunted.
Hunnicut: Haunted? Ha, you don't say.
Old Man: Oh, yes. Without a doubt, the car is quite haunted. It's been haunted ever since it came off the assembly line, and every single one of its owners attests to this fact.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-04-19/news/8803100021_1_iranian-vessels-antiship-harpoon
Chicago Tribune
Navy Rises To Occasion In Duel At Sea
April 19, 1988 By David Evans, Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than 40 years, enemy warships have seriously challenged the U.S. Navy at sea. The Navy won-decisively.
When the sun set on the Persian Gulf Monday night, at least two Iranian patrol boats were at the bottom, two others were heavily damaged, perhaps even sunk, and two Iranian frigates were disabled.
In one day`s combat, Iranian fleet strength was reduced considerably. The U.S. ships involved in the fighting were unscathed.
By all accounts, the Navy racked up a victory, marred only by the probable loss of an Army attack helicopter. The Cobra helicopter, operating with a two-member crew from the cruiser Wainwright, was reported overdue.
The engagement underscores the decisive impact of air power in naval engagements and the effectiveness of simple countermeasures in dealing with antiship missile attacks.
But the incident that prompted Monday`s naval battle-the near sinking last week of the USS Samuel B. Roberts by an Iranian mine-raises anew the question of the Navy`s ability to deal effectively with even simple mines.
The Navy`s success in surface combat stems in large measure from the presence of aircraft overhead. E-2C Hawkeye radar planes from the carrier Enterprise provided early warning of Iranian F-4 Phantom jets as well as inbound surface vessels.
Attack aircraft known as A-6 also provided early warning of impending attacks. And it was the bombs and missiles fired from the A-6s that inflicted most of the damage. Only two of the Iranian vessels damaged or sunk were hit by ordnance fired from surface warships.
At the same time, the Iranian air force-with barely two dozen or so planes still operational, for want of American spare parts-was able to mount only a token sortie of two F-4s, which were chased off and possibly damaged by U.S. antiaircraft missiles.
Control of the sea would seem to require dominance of the air.
Indeed, the British Royal Navy`s losses in the Falkland Islands war might have been far worse if the Argentine A-4s had not been forced to fly to the very limit of their range, with only enough fuel for one pass, and if more of their bombs had exploded on impact.
However, the Persian Gulf action shows that some of the Navy`s surface ship countermeasures do work. The captain of the frigate USS Stark was roundly criticized for not employing chaff as a radar decoy before his ship was hit by a radar-homing Exocet missile last May.
On Monday, the cruiser Wainwright used its chaff to decoy a Harpoon missile fired from the attacking Joshan, an Iranian fast attack craft.
The Joshan, which did not employ any effective chaff, was then hit and sunk
from my private journal, as 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:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as 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, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
Broken Bow - Star Trek: Enterprise - television series premiere - season 1 episode 1 - Wednesday 26 September 2001
(from internet transcript)
[Spacedock - view of Enterprise through window]
FORREST: When Zefram Cochrane made his legendary warp flight ninety years ago, and drew the attention of our new friends, the Vulcans. We realised that we weren't alone in the galaxy. Today we're about to cross a new threshold. For nearly a century, we've waded ankle-deep in the ocean of space. Now it's finally time to swim. (applause) The warp five engine wouldn't be a reality without men like Doctor Cochrane and Henry Archer, who worked so hard to develop it. So it's only fitting that Henry's son, Jonathan Archer, will command the first starship powered by that engine. (applause as Archer and senior officers leave) Rather than quoting Doctor Cochrane, I think we should listen to his own words from the dedication ceremony for the Warp Five Complex thirty two years ago.
COCHRANE [on screen] On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday help us travel a hundred times faster than we can today. (as the officers take their bridge stations) Imagine it. Thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips. And we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly where no man has gone before.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 03:01 AM November 24, 2022
Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
a/
On the one hand, the only reason I'm right now - during the 2 AM hour of 11/24/2022 - watching for the the first time the first episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is because Amazon Prime offered me a deep discount on Paramount+
b/
On the other hand, I did not have to choose to watch today for the first time that streaming video-serial
In the early minutes, Captain Pike talks to Spock in the lounge area and that made me think of research of my own to pursue, looking back to "Bikini's Kent"
c/
And I worked on it for a while before I started the video again and now I've paused just after they land on the alien-planet and that research I made earlier becomes more compelling and perhaps a story from me for later, if I decide to post it later tonight
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 8:38 PM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 11/19/2024
