Continuing
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 26
What happened at WBZ-TV in Boston had been planned the night before by three newscasters and six technicians, all operating in Studio 6. Five of these men played poker regularly, and six of the nine were already ill. They felt they had nothing to lose. They collected nearly a dozen handguns. Bob Palmer, who anchored the morning news, brought them upstairs inside a flight bag where he usually carried his notes, pencils, and several legal-sized notepads.
The entire broadcast facility was cordoned off by what they had been told were National Guardsmen, but as Palmer had told George Dickerson the night before, they were the only over-fifty Guardsmen he had ever seen.
At 9:01 A.M., just after Palmer had begun to read the soothing copy he had been handed ten minutes before by an army noncom, a coup took place. The nine of them effectively captured the television station. The soldiers, who hadn’t expected any real trouble from a soft bunch of civilians accustomed to reporting tragedy at long distance, were taken completely by surprise and disarmed. Other station personnel joined the small rebellion, and cleared the sixth floor quickly and locked all the doors. The elevators were brought to six before the soldiers on the lobby level quite knew what was happening. Three soldiers tried to come up the east fire stairs, and a janitor named Charles Yorkin, armed with an army-issue carbine, fired a shot over their heads. It was the only shot fired.
Viewers in the WBZ-TV broadcast area saw Bob Palmer stop his newscast in the middle of a sentence, and heard him say, “Okay, right now!” There were scuffling sounds off-camera. When it was over, thousands of bemused viewers saw that Bob Palmer was now holding a snub-nosed pistol in his hand.
A hoarse, off-mike voice yelled jubilantly: “We got em, Bob! We got the bastards! We got em all!”
“Okay, that’s good work,” Palmer said. He then faced into the camera again. “Fellow citizens of Boston, and Americans in our broadcast area. Something both grave and terribly important has just happened in this studio, and I am very glad it has happened here first, in Boston, the cradle of American independence. For the last seven days, this broadcast facility has been under guard by men purporting to be National Guardsmen. Men in army khaki, armed with guns, have been standing beside our cameramen, in our control rooms, beside our teletypes. Has the news been managed? I am sorry to say that this is the case.
From 10/15/1935 ( ) To 11/25/2025 ( Tuesday ) is 32914 days
32914 = 16457 + 16457
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/23/2010 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate Universe"::"Visitation" ) is 16457 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_McGuire
excerpt - read also:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2025/05/today-is-05222025.html
From 5/8/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Stephen King's The Stand"::miniseries premiere "The Plague" ) To 11/25/2025 ( Tuesday ) is 11524 days
11524 = 5762 + 5762
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/12/1981 ( the revolutionary IBM Personal Computer 5150 ) is 5762 days
From 5/9/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries episode "The Stand"::"The Dreams" ) To 11/26/2025 ( Wednesday ) is 11524 days
11524 = 5762 + 5762
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/12/1981 ( the revolutionary IBM Personal Computer 5150 ) is 5762 days
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 17
Starkey was standing in front of monitor 2, keeping a close eye on Tech 2nd Class Frank D. Bruce. When we last saw Bruce, he was facedown in a bowl of Chunky Sirloin Soup. No change except for the positive ID. Situation normal, all fucked up.
Thoughtfully, hands locked behind his back like a general reviewing troops, like General Black Jack Pershing, his boyhood idol, Starkey moved down to monitor 4, where the situation had changed for the better. Dr. Emmanual Ezwick still lay dead on the floor, but the centrifuge had stopped. At 1940 hours last night, the centrifuge had begun to emit fine tendrils of smoke. At 1995 hours the sound pickups in Ezwick’s lab had transmitted a whunga-whunga-whunga sort of sound that deepened into a fuller, richer, and more satisfying ronk! ronk! ronk! At 2107 hours the centrifuge had ronked its last ronk and had slowly come to rest. Was it Newton who had said that somewhere, beyond the farthest star, there may be a body perfectly at rest? Newton had been right about everything but the distance, Starkey thought. You didn’t have to go far at all. Project Blue was perfectly at rest. Starkey was very glad. The centrifuge had been the last illusion of life, and the problem he’d had Steffens run through the main computer bank (Steffens had looked at him as though he were crazy, and yes, Starkey thought he might be) was: How long could that centrifuge be expected to run? The answer, which had come back in 6.6 seconds, was: ± 3 YEARS PROBABLE MALFUNCTION NEXT TWO WEEKS .009% AREAS OF PROBABLE MALFUNCTION BEARINGS 38% MAIN MOTOR 16% ALL OTHER 54%. That was a smart computer.
previously, here
From 9/17/1985 ( premiere USA TV series episode "George Burns Comedy Week"::"The Dynamite Girl" ) To 11/26/2025 ( ) is 14680 days
14680 = 7340 + 7340
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: Repair Locker Personnel Training, USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy ) is 7340 days
From 4/14/1964 ( from IMDb database file circa 2012: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow ) To 5/8/2024 ( debut "Dark Matter" AppleTV+ streaming-video series ) is 21939 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/26/2025 ( Wednesday ) is 21939 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394074/
IMDb
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
S2.E25
The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
An elderly woman is locked in an air tight safe with one of her cats by her niece's husband when she discovers he is a forger.
Stargate Universe - "Visitation" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/23/2010
Dr. CAINE: Something vital has broken and none of us know how to fix it.
From 12/8/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 11/25/2025 ( Tuesday ) is 8023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/21/1987 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Legacy students continue Princeton family tradition ) is 8023 days
From 12/9/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries finale episode "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 11/26/2025 ( Wednesday ) is 8023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/21/1987 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Legacy students continue Princeton family tradition ) is 8023 days
excerpt, read also
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2025/11/today-is-11252025-post-4.html
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Cut to a tv screen, where a reporter, whose name is given as Kellan Brody, is talking to a man, Dr. Gaius Baltar.)
Brody: For those of you just joining us from the pyramid game on Geminon, welcome to The Spotlight, our weekly interview program devoted to people making news on Caprica.
(Gaius is looking out the window and then looking at his watch.)
Brody: Today, we're talking to Dr. Gaius Baltar, winner of three Magnet Awards over the course of his career, a media cult figure and a personal friend of President Adar's. He is currently working as a top consultant for the ministry of defense on computer issues, but he's perhaps best known for his controversial views on advancing computer technology. (The camera pans around so that we can see that Baltar is giving the interview from his home. Nice place.) Dr. Baltar, again, welcome.
Baltar: Thank you, Kellan. And first may I say how lovely you're looking, and secondly, what an absolute pleasure it is to be on the show.
Brody: Well, we're delighted to have you with us. Could you summarize your views for our audience?
Baltar: Yes, I'd be happy to. My position is very simple. (Off to the side, we see Number Six walk into the house and put a metal box down on a table.) The ban on research and development into artificial intelligence is, as we all know, a holdover from the Cylon Wars. Quite frankly, I find this to be an outmoded concept. It serves no useful purpose except to impede our efforts.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
Prosna: Shh, it's the old man. (Hands clipboard to other tech.)
Adama: Too late. What's up?
Other Tech: (As they all salute) Nothing sir, just another leak in that frakking window. Pardon me, sir.
Prosna: It's supposed to be a battlestar, not a museum. Sorry for saying so, sir.
Adama: I couldn't agree with you more. Be careful out there, all right? (We follow him into the command center as he goes over his speech again.) The Cylon War is long over, yet we cannot forget the reasons why...
Stargate Universe - "Visitation" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/23/2010
(from internet transcript)
In Camille's room, she has Caine under hypnosis. His eyes are closed. Young is standing nearby.
WRAY: What do you see?
CAINE: Snow is falling.
(Inside his head, he is standing about a dozen paces away from the rear of the shuttle. The snow has been falling for some time and he has left deep footprints behind him. Wrapped in a blanket, he gazes up at the sky, realising that it doesn't look like it's going to stop snowing any time soon. He lowers his head unhappily and turns back towards the ship.)
CAINE (on Destiny): The shuttle is our only shelter now.
(A couple of blankets have been hung over the doorway and Caine pushes through to where the rest of the crew are wrapped in more blankets and huddled around a tiny fire in a metal bowl. All of them are shuddering.)
CAINE (on Destiny): It's so cold. We lost power days ago.
(He looks around at his friends, who stare back at him as they tremble with the cold. Peter's gaze is more than a little accusing.)
Stargate Universe - "Visitation" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/23/2010
(from internet transcript)
Eli has watched the footage [sic] from the Kino found in the shuttle, and has called Young, Camille and Nicholas to his room to watch. They stand nearby as he sets the footage going again. Inside the shuttle the Kino turns to focus on Robert Caine sitting on the floor.
Stargate Universe - "Visitation" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/23/2010
(from internet transcript)
(In flashback, Caine is visibly close to death as he gazes across the shuttle in despair.)
CAINE (on Destiny): It's very dark. There's no pain, just ... just the cold.
WRAY: Who else is there with you?
CAINE: Uh ...
(He shakes his head in distress as he sees the others sitting nearby in the shuttle, their eyes all closed.)
WRAY: What?
CAINE (on Destiny): They're all dead, frozen.
(He shudders in horror as he looks around the ship at his dead colleagues.)
CAINE (on Destiny): I'm alone.
WRAY: What are you doing?
CAINE (on Destiny): Nowhere for me to go.
(He sits silently in the shuttle with frost on his face, his expression hopeless.)
Stargate Universe - "Visitation" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/23/2010
(from internet transcript)
YOUNG: Is that all?
CAINE: I wish I had more answers for you.
YOUNG: Me too.
(He turns to walk away and Camille gets up to go and talk with him.)
CAINE: But you won't have to drop me off at the next planet, Colonel.
(They turn back to him.)
CAINE: I expect I'll be dead before you come back out of F.T.L.
WRAY: You don't know that.
CAINE: Yes, I do. Because now I remember something that no-one ever should.
(He sighs and looks up at the others, his face full of despair.)
CAINE: I'm already dead.
INFIRMARY. Camille and Young escort Caine into the room. T.J. is just pulling a sheet over the face of another of the Eden crew. Another covered body lies nearby.
JOHANSEN: They all died in their sleep.
CAINE: With symptoms of severe exposure?
JOHANSEN: Yeah. But I'm guessing whatever the aliens did to bring you back - it was only temporary.
WRAY: You're all just reverting back to the state they probably found you in.
JOHANSEN (to Caine): I'm sorry. I did everything I could think of.
(He forces a smile for her.)
CAINE: It's not your fault.
(Looking round at his dead colleagues, he sighs.)
CAINE: How much time do I have left?
JOHANSEN (softly): Not much.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:54 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 11/26/2025
