by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/19/2026 12:35 PM
The Improbable.
Those of you with enough interest and curiosity to follow along with my blog-posts here on my blog might remember my interest in the computer-game Space Engineers by Keen Software House, on Steam
Chewed all the flavor out of that bubblegum and have not had any interest in it for a long time, but it is still a style of game I hope to find
The computer-game Satisfactory by Coffee Stain Studios was comparable in my interest. Comparably, a much greater entertainment-value than any video title on Amazon for purchase (with one notable exception)
Recently, discovered Icarus by RocketWerkz, also on Steam. Not as complex and complicated as Satisfactory. Icarus has completely ruined my interest in Satisfactory because Icarus has such better graphics quality.
Why am I writing all this?
Last year, Keen Software House released Space Engineers 2
Looked interesting but it is still years away from the level of functionality as the first version.
So I have had no interest in it.
Early this morning, dragged myself out of bed for another day at this stupid desk, certain the answer is out there somewhere on the internet to get me out of here, and Space Engineers was the furthest possible thing from my mind
Later, opened the Steam application to look around, because I find interesting topics there for my research, and SUDDENLY I could not resist the impulse to purchase a copy of Space Engineers 2
So today, calendar-day 01/19/2026, that is what I did. Did not want to. Could not resist the impulse. Probably checking it out later today.
Anytime something like that happens to me, I must examine the calendar-day in my original-work and so that's what I am doing now.
The point of this note is for only one reason: the random - and after working on it for a while, the improbable - choice I made this calendar-day 01/19/2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)
Identification (literature)
From Wikipedia
Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Dr. Zefram COCHRANE: That's a trick. Ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that?
LAFORGE: It's your telescope.
From 10/11/1900 ( ) To 3/16/2021 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, previously referenced here: Backstory 001: Evelyn and Hope ) is 43986 days
43986 = 21993 + 21993
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/19/2026 ( Today , Monday ) is 21993 days
From 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) To 1/19/2026 ( ) is 15865 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/10/2009 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Dollhouse"::"A Spy in the House of Love" ) is 15865 days
From 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) To 1/19/2026 ( ) is 15865 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/10/2009 ( premiere USA TV "400 Years of the Telescope" ) is 15865 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 1/19/2026 ( ) is 10654 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/3/1995 ( ) is 10654 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 1/19/2026 ( ) is 10654 days
10654 = 5327 + 5327
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/1980 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: A computer communications device failure caused warning messages to sporadically flash at North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Air Force command posts around the world that a Soviet nuclear attack was taking place ) is 5327 days
From 9/1/1936 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: Valery Legasov ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 21993 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/19/2026 ( ) is 21993 days
From 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) To 1/19/2026 ( ) is 73 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/14/1966 ( biographical - Sergei P. Korolev dead ) is 73 days
From 1/9/1906 ( ) To 1/19/2026 ( ) is 43840 days
43840 = 21920 + 21920
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) is 21920 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Legasov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Puharich
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19060109-01.2.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
https://archive.vogue.com/article/1900/10/seen-in-the-shops-a-toilet-table
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
TROI: Would you three like to be alone?
PICARD: What have you found out?
TROI: There's no sign of Cochrane anywhere in the complex.
PICARD: He has to be here. There was nothing more important to him than this ship. This flight. It was his dream.
TROI: Captain, we should consider the possibility that Doctor Cochrane was killed in the attack.
PICARD: Huh. If that's true then the future may die with him.
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 (operator and advanced technician, 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 2/3/2007 ( ) is 7183 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/3/1985 ( premiere USA film "Back to the Future" ) is 7183 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 2/3/2007 ( ) is 3729 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/18/1976 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"Meditation and the Mind" ) is 3729 days
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:
02/03/07 6:30 AM
I must have dreamed last night about being on Mars in 1976 but I don't remember any of it after waking.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
{first scene}
[Picard's quarters]
(Picard is having a dream about his memories from end of "Best of Both Worlds, Part I.")
BORG QUEEN: Locutus.
PICARD: I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.
(he is awakened by a comm bleep just as he is starting to be assimilated)
PICARD: Authorisation Picard four seven alpha tango. ...Admiral?
HAYES (on viewer): Did I catch you at a bad time Jean-Luc?
PICARD: No, of course not.
HAYES (on viewer): I've just received a disturbing report from Deep Space 5. Our colony on Ivor Prime was destroyed this morning. Long-range sensors have picked up...
PICARD: Yes, I know. ...The Borg.
Captains log, stardate 50893.5. The moment I have dreaded for nearly six years has finally arrived. The Borg, our most lethal enemy have begun an invasion of the Federation, and this time there may be no stopping them.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/28/2024 05:28 AM
Meanwhile, in local news...
That guy is going to bleat on and on all morning today about some local guy that recently died
He hijacked an important issue that needed to be addressed about civil rights and equality here in the USA, but did so only to advertise his ridiculous superstition of the Jesus Christ mythology superstition
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:25 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 01/19/2026
