by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/14/2024 01:50 AM
After midnight
Thought about this a few times over past several days
After midnight, accepted the impulse in my conscious mind to watch the first episode of "The Last of Us". Made it though the first episode, paused the second episode at the beginning to put some work into this
I liked it well enough the first time I watched, like it slightly more this second time through
The second season is supposed to start early next year
Yesterday was a new episode of "Silo". Haven't watched it yet. Probably won't see it and know anything about its content until later this night-time today or later. Tomorrow is a new episode of "Earth Abides", maybe, IMDb is reporting it as next Monday, while the previous episodes released new on Sunday's
The Last of Us (2023) s01e01
"When You're Lost in the Darkness"
(from internet transcript)
Wow.
Fixed it for you.
- Did you?
- What?
I don't hear anything.
That was lame.
- You're lame.
- Yeah, I know.
Where'd you get the money for this?
Drugs. I sell hardcore drugs.
It's better than what I do.
It was only $20, which I stole from you.
I could've stolen 60,
but I put the change back
- because I'm an honest thief.
- Mm.
Besides, it's the thought that counts.
And you were never gonna
do it for yourself, so.
Thank you.
Oh! There's one more.
- Borrowed it from the Adlers.
- Oh, this is the one
with the deleted scenes.
Yeah, imagine how bad those have to be.
C'mon, pop it in. While
it's still your birthday.
- Don't fall asleep.
- 'Course, I won't.
It's too riveting.
Hello?
Joel, it's me.
Uh, I'm okay.
- Yeah?
- But I'm in jail.
- Goddammit.
- Wasn't my fault this time.
I was at the bar, some guy goes
crazy, starts swingin' at a waitress,
I stepped in, knocked
him out, cops show up
Look, it doesn't fuckin' matter.
- You gotta bail me out.
- Now?
It's Friday, you don't
get me out tonight,
I'm in here all weekend.
It's a fuckin' madhouse, Joel.
- I gotta get out.
- Well, which jail? Travis County?
Yeah, on 10th.
- Goddammit, Tommy.
- I'm sorry.
Please.
Okay.
Fuckin' idiot.
Dad?
Dad?!
indoors.
Law enforcement and emergency services
are in the area and will be in
contact with further instructions.
From 1/15/2023 ( debut "The Last of Us" HBO tv-series ) To 12/14/2024 ( Today - Saturday ) is 699 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/2/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Memorandum on Inaugurating a Test Program To Reduce Hard-Core Unemployment ) is 699 days
From 10/18/1963 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"A Kind of a Stopwatch" ) To 11/29/2022 ( ) is 21592 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/14/2024 ( ) is 21592 days
IMDb
The Twilight Zone
A Kind of a Stopwatch
Quotes
Narrator: [opening narration] Submitted for your approval, or at least your analysis: one Patrick Thomas McNulty, who, at age forty-one, is the biggest bore on Earth. He holds a ten-year record for the greatest number of the most meaningless words ever spewed out during a coffee break. And it's very likely that, as of this moment, he would have gone through life in precisely this manner: a long-winded and self-centered know-it-all whose sole significant, if hardly marketable, talent is for setting the art of conversation back a thousand years... give or take a century. I say he very likely would have, except for something that will soon happen to him. Something that will considerably alter his existence and ours. You think about that now, because this is The Twilight Zone.
IMDb
The Twilight Zone
A Kind of a Stopwatch
Quotes
Joe: Done for the night, McNulty? Everybody's gone! You happy? You bored ten people to death. You emptied my place like it had a smallpox sign out there! Do me a favor, will you, McNulty? Whenever you get the thirst, go to some other bar!
[drops the beer glass he was holding]
McNulty: [presses the button of a stopwatch he was given by another man who left the bar] I don't feel much like going home. I've seen the movie on the Late Show. I've even seen the movie on the Late, Late Show! Sometimes I even wished I was married! Do you ever get that feeling...
[turns to see that Joe is frozen in place]
McNulty: Joe? Joe! Hey, why you standing that way? Joe? Hey, Joe! Say something! You look like you were frozen! All I was doing was telling you how bored I was and this crazy gleep gave me this watch and I sat here and I pressed it.
[presses the button again and Joe starts moving normally]
Joe: And that's another thing, McNulty. You make me nervous. First, you come in here, you bore people to death and then you make me nervous!
McNulty: I make you nervous?
Joe: You know something, McNulty? You're the one guy that makes me wish they never repealed Prohibition!
[McNulty presses the watch button and Joe freezes in place. McNulty walks up behind Joe]
McNulty: Something tells me this is a very unusual watch.
The Twilight Zone
"A Kind of a Stopwatch"
(from internet transcript)
What do you want to talk about? Want to talk about baseball? It's the great american sport, and i am very happy abner doubleday saw fit to invent it.
Cheers! To health, friend.
Down the hatch.
And now to thank you for your generosity, i have something for you.
It's a gift.
A small remembrance of our friendship.
What is it? It's a stopwatch- a old family heirloom.
What do you do with it? I mean, it doesn't keep time.
It's just a stopwatch.
That is a fact.
But it is yours.
You may have it.
What'll i do with it? Stopwatch.
Well, someday you might own a racehorse or you might want to run the mile or launch an astronaut.
Well, good-bye, old pal.
From 8/12/1944 ( ) To 9/24/2003 ( ) is 21592 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/14/2024 ( Today - Saturday ) is 21592 days
"Radioactive Man" The Simpsons
Original airdate in N.A.: 24-Sep-95
(internet transcript)
Bart walks up to Milhouse.
Bart: Hey, Milhouse. I want you to know that I'm glad at least one of us got the part. [Milhouse explodes]
Bart: Milhouse! [a leg lands in front of him] I didn't do it...I didn't do it! I wished him well. [his head lands in Bart's arms] Aah!
Man: Stupid dummy wasn't supposed to explode yet!
From 9/24/1995 ( premiere USA TV series "Space: Above and Beyond" ) To 12/14/2024 ( ) is 10674 days
10674 = 5337 + 5337
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/13/1980 ( premiere USA TV "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything" ) is 5337 days
From 10/27/1944 ( ) To 12/9/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries finale episode "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 21592 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/14/2024 ( ) is 21592 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging
Debugging
From Wikipedia
Debugging is the process of finding and resolving bugs or defects that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system.
Origin
The terms "bug" and "debugging" are popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However the term "bug" in the meaning of technical error dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison (see software bug for a full discussion), and "debugging" seems to have been used as a term in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. Indeed, in an interview Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term[citation needed]. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so it was saved. A letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer (director of the WWII atomic bomb "Manhattan" project at Los Alamos, NM) used the term in a letter to Dr. Ernest Lawrence at UC Berkeley, dated October 27, 1944, regarding the recruitment of additional technical staff.
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for "debug" quotes the term "debugging" used in reference to airplane engine testing in a 1945 article in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. An article in "Airforce" (June 1945 p. 50) also refers to debugging, this time of aircraft cameras. Hopper's bug was found on September 9, 1947. The term was not adopted by computer programmers until the early 1950s. The seminal article by Gill in 1951 is the earliest in-depth discussion of programming errors, but it does not use the term "bug" or "debugging". In the ACM's digital library, the term "debugging" is first used in three papers from 1952 ACM National Meetings. Two of the three use the term in quotation marks. By 1963 "debugging" was a common enough term to be mentioned in passing without explanation on page 1 of the CTSS manual.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Ragnar Anchorage - Adama and Leoben are in some sort of room with lots of pipes and steam. Leoben is extremely pale and sweaty now.)
Leoben: What is it about this place? What's it doing to me?
Adama: Must be your allergies.
Leoben: I don't have allergies.
Adama: I didn't think so. What you got are silica pathways to the brain, or whatever it is you call that thing you pretend to think with. It's decomposing as we speak.
Leoben: It's the storm, isn't it? It puts out something. Something you discovered has an effect on Cylon technology. That's it, isn't it? And this is a refuge, that's why you put a fleet out here. Last ditch effort to hide from the Cylon attack. Right, well, that's not enough Adama. I've been here for hours. Once they find you, it won't take them that long to destroy you. They'll be in and out before they even get a headache.
Adama: Maybe. (He grabs Leoben, pushes him up against the wall.) But you, you won't find out, because you'll be dead in a few minutes. How does that make you feel? If you can feel.
Leoben: Oh, I can feel more than you could ever conceive of, Adama. But I won't die. When this body dies, my consciousness will be transferred to another one. And when that happens, (he collapses to the ground with a groan) I think I'll tell the others exactly where you are, and I think that they'll come, and they'll kill all of you. And I'll be here watching it happen.
Adama: You know what I think? I think if you could have transferred out of here, you woulda done it long before now. I think the storm's radiation really clogged up your connection. You're not going anywhere. You're stuck in that body.
Leoben: Doesn't matter. Sooner or later, (he smiles) the day comes when you can't hide from the things you've done.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:17 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 12/14/2024
