I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.
This Is What I Think.
Monday, February 23, 2026
Today is 02/23/2026
draft - in progress
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/23/2026 04:53 AM
If there is content of interest here in my blog then I know I am reluctantly burying it with another blog-post by me (as if it really matters whether anyone out there in the world tries to constructively understand any of this stuff I create and assemble)
This observation is too compelling to me to ignore, however
This observation is that standard process I often follow: I make a completely random choice. Then I look at my original-work for a pattern I recognize
This case features details that are uncharacteristic for me, in terms of a style of product I made a completely random choice about today, this calendar-day 02/23/2026
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10/22/2006 9:54 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
(A ROUGH ROAD LEADS TO THE STARS)
10/22/2006 11:19 PM
I describe an artificial memory below about graduating high school on Friday and then being waken up the first time in boot camp that next Tuesday with them beating on an aluminum trash can.
Re: Journal June 7, 2006, Supplemental
Now I am thinking about how I graduated high school on a Friday and was in boot camp that following Monday.
I remember that for a long time, I didn't know what it was they were doing to wake us up in the morning. All I knew was that I was suddenly awake and didn't know why. They were banging on an aluminum trash can. Since those aren't real memories, it must represent something else, something much more dramatic perhaps.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 5:55 PM Tuesday, August 14, 2007
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584442/
"Futurama"
How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back (2000)
Original Air Date: 2 April 2000
FRY
Hey, what did you do to him?
MORGAN
I downloaded his brain. Everything that is Bender is right here. His mind, his memories, his in-your-face interface.
FRY
But, but...Bender need brain...for...smart making! What did you do now? Stop doing things!
MORGAN
I sent the disk to be filed at the Central Bureaucracy. I did what I had to do Fry. He was a bad robot.
FRY
No, he was a bad friend. I want him back right now.
MORGAN
Then you should have filed a request 20 years ago.
From 5/14/1984 ( scheduled from 05/21/1983 - at the recruiter's office in downtown, my departure from Texarkana, Arkansas, and arriving this day in Orlando, Florida, beginning my induction to active-duty enlisted {non-commissioned seafarer, E-3 paygrade, Advanced Electronics Field candidate} US Navy, for 6-years obligated service ) To 2/23/2026 ( Today , Monday ) is 15260 days
15260 = 7630 + 7630
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/1986 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA federal government 1981-1988: Remarks at a Ronald W. Reagan Scholarship Fundraising Dinner for Eureka College ) is 7630 days
From 5/14/1984 ( scheduled from 05/21/1983 - at the recruiter's office in downtown, my departure from Texarkana, Arkansas, and arriving this day in Orlando, Florida, beginning my induction to active-duty enlisted {non-commissioned seafarer, E-3 paygrade, Advanced Electronics Field candidate} US Navy, for 6-years obligated service ) To 2/23/2026 ( ) is 15260 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/14/2007 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Universe"::"The Outer Planets" ) is 15260 days
From 10/26/2014 ( premiere USA film "Interstellar" ) To 2/23/2026 ( ) is 4138 days
4138 = 2069 + 2069
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/3/1971 ( biographical - Jim Morrison dead ) is 2069 days
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by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: 05:26 AM June 14, 2022
Kerry Burgess @hvom2022
Scanning around my Usual Suspects, I'm thinking I will watch again the 2014 "Interstellar"
I really like that production, is almost ruined by Matthew McConaughey. Matt Damon wasn't a great choice, either.
McConaughey doesn't ruin as production as badly as Keanu Reeves, almost
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: 05:32 AM June 14, 2022
Kerry Burgess @hvom2022
This is what *caused* *me* *today* to think about again watching the 2014 "Interstellar" and to think more about that stuff those people in the real world are writing about
What shall I find *today* now here in my own world *because* of that influence?
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: 06:34 AM June 14, 2022
Kerry Burgess @hvom2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_reduction
Dimensional reduction
From Wikipedia
Dimensional reduction is the limit of a compactified theory where the size of the compact dimension goes to zero
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnzBNMfZfo
The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side) [Official Video]
The Doors {from YouTube}
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:13 AM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 02/23/2026
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Today is 02/22/2026
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https://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/?cam=tsrobo1
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:17 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 02/22/2026
Today is 02/22/2026
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https://nypost.com/2026/02/21/us-news/noreaster-could-whollop-nyc-region-with-up-to-18-inches-of-snow-expected/
New York Post
By Angela Barbuti and Ella Morrison Published Feb. 21, 2026
Massive blizzard set to wallop NYC with up to 20 inches of snow as bomb cyclone puts millions in danger
From 9/11/2001 ( ) To 2/22/2026 ( ) is 8930 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/15/1990 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"The Crepes of Wrath" ) is 8930 days
"The Crepes of Wrath" ( The Simpsons )
April 15, 1990
(from internet transcript)
Bart arrives home from school, littering the hallway with his skateboard and knapsack. Bart enters his messy room and feeds his pet frog.
Out in the hallway, Homer complains about the mess, picking up a Krusty doll to illustrate his point. Bart's skateboard introduces Homer to the quick way to get downstairs. (``D'oh! D'ah! Son-of-a! D'aargh!'') His back injured, Homer is unable to move, his only company Bart's Krusty doll, which says, ``I like to play with '' over and over and over and over again. SLH wanders in. ``Go get help, boy.'' The dog licks Homer's face and takes a nap.
Maggie crawls over Homer's face, then quiets him with her pacifier. Maggie naps next to her father. Pull upward to show Homer lying on the floor, surrounded by Maggie, the pets, and a Krusty doll whose batteries are near death.
Marge and Lisa arrive home, and Homer says, ``The boy. Bring me the boy.''
Marge storms into Bart's messy room and yells, ``If you had cleaned your room when I asked you to, your father's trick back would still be aligned!'' While tossing his junk into the closet, Bart discovers... a cherry bomb. ``I thought I blew all you guys up!''
https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/winter-weather/blizzard-warnings-issued-across-east-coast-rcna260046
NBC News
Over a foot of snow forecast for tristate area as 26 million people under blizzard warnings
Feb. 21, 2026, 8:00 AM PST
For New York City, this weekend's storm would mark its first blizzard since 2016, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a briefing Saturday. He warned that the city could be buried in up to 20 inches of snowfall, making Monday's commute “extremely dangerous,." The city's "Code Blue" operations have been activated to protect homeless New Yorkers, he said.
"I am asking all New Yorkers to stay inside and stay off the roads for your safety," Mamdani said.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Saturday for multiple counties including Albany and New York in preparation for the Sunday storm.
Kathy Hochul
From Wikipedia
Kathleen Courtney Hochul ( née Courtney; born August 27, 1958) is an American politician and lawyer who has served since 2021 as the 57th governor of New York. A member of the Democratic Party, she is New York's first female governor.
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From 8/27/1958 ( ) To 12/17/2018 ( ) is 22027 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/22/2026 ( ) is 22027 days
https://cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2018-featured-story-archive/top-10-cia-myths.html
Central Intelligence Agency
United States of America
Top 10 CIA Myths Hollywood has produced some incredibly entertaining portrayals of the lives of CIA officers.
Myth 4: All CIA officers are quiet, mysterious, live undercover and lie about where they work
While some officers do live undercover, many do not. And while some of us may be able to confirm that we work for the CIA, we may have to deny you details. Actually, for the majority of our officers, working at the CIA is very similar to working any other nine-to-five job in terms of logistics and lifestyle. The work we do may be secret, but our lives aren’t. CIA officers lead typical lives – we have kids and pets, we workout at the gym, watch movies, eat out
https://cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2018-featured-story-archive/top-10-cia-myths.html
Central Intelligence Agency
United States of America
Top 10 CIA Myths
Myth 2: The men and women who work for the CIA are spies and agents
Citizens who work for the CIA are officers – not agents or spies. All employees, from operations officers, to analysts, to librarians and public affairs, are considered CIA officers.
So, who is a CIA agent? Our operations officers recruit well-placed human assets with access to information. These spies are agents. They provide critical information about their country to help America. Operations officers are CIA employees who spot, recruit, and handle foreign agents. They are experts in understanding human nature, emotions, intentions, and motivations.
by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M 12:45 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 20 July 2016
She had asked me as we sat there at the table a question about what I did in my spare time. That was my response.
Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:50 AM Saturday, July 21, 2007
When I was sitting there in that bar in our office in historic Bellevue, Washington, in 1999, I told her I drove around in my blue Mazda RX-7 and solved crimes. Suzanne Morgan then looked across the table at Thomas Dawkins and asked him "What did he say?" and Thomas repeated what I had said. Later that evening, from my apartment at Oakwood, I wrote an email to Suzanne and commented that all the cigarette smoke in that bar had caused my face to turn red.
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From 8/27/1958 ( ) to 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates - the world-famous actor AND from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical-doctor and the world-famous actor and the spouse of my biological genetic brother Thomas Reagan ) is 1784 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) to 9/21/1970 ( premiere USA TV series "The Young Lawyers" ) is 1784 days
From 8/27/1958 ( ) To 7/23/1973 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: Top Secret - my biological genetic brother Thomas Reagan the 1969 medical-doctor graduate of Princeton University and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England, passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) is 5444 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/28/1980 ( premiere USA TV series "Cosmos"::series premiere "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" ) is 5444 days
From 8/27/1958 ( ) To 12/29/1964 ( actor John Wayne reveals treatment for lung-cancer ) is 2316 days
2316 = 1158 + 1158
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/3/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Whom Gods Destroy" ) is 1158 days
From 2/17/1933 ( USA Senate accepts the Blaine Act, ending prohibition in the United States ) To 8/27/1958 ( ) is 9322 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/12/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: disguised as McLaren driver Ayrton Senna, I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix as the unpublished Formula One driver and the financial partner of McLaren Honda and the legitimate agent of Interpol ) is 9322 days
From 8/27/1958 ( ) To 10/24/2001 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Love In The Time of Anthrax ) is 15764 days
15764 = 7882 + 7882
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/2/1987 ( premiere USA film "The Untouchables" ) is 7882 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Hochul
Kathy Hochul
From Wikipedia
Kathleen Hochul (née Courtney; born August 27, 1958)
Since August 24, 2021, she has served as the 57th governor of New York.
senna-91 .jpg, from internet
"The Crepes of Wrath" ( The Simpsons )
April 15, 1990
(from internet transcript)
The doorbell rings, and Homer rings the handbell. ``Maaaaarge! Maaarge! MARGE! GET THE DOOR!'' Marge peers through the peephole and gets a distorted view of Principal Skinner. Bart escapes to his room as Marge brings Principal Skinner into the living room. Homer remains on the couch.
Homer: Oh, hello, Principal Skinner. I'd get up, but the boy crippled me.
Principal Skinner: Mm hm. I understand completely.
Pr. Skinner: Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, we have transcended incorrigible. I don't think suspension or expulsion will do the trick. I think it behooves us all to consider... deportation.
Marge: Deportation!? You mean, kick Bart out of the country?
Homer: Eh, hear him out, Marge.
1964 Winter Olympics
From Wikipedia
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (German: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 (Austro-Bavarian: Innschbruck 1964), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_K%C3%B6hler
Thomas Köhler
From Wikipedia
Thomas Köhler (born 25 June 1940) is an East German former luger who competed during the 1960s.
He won three Winter Olympic medals in men's luge with two golds (Singles: 1964
From 1/31/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Black Leather Jackets" ) To 5/22/2024 ( debut "The Corridor" s1e4 "Dark Matter" streaming-video series AppleTV+ ) is 22027 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/22/2026 ( ) is 22027 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734557/quotes/
IMDb
The Twilight Zone
Black Leather Jackets (1964)
Quotes
[closing narration]
Narrator: Portrait of an American family on the eve of invasion from outer space. Of course, we know it's merely fiction - and yet, think twice when you drink your next glass of water. Find out if it's from your local reservoir, or possibly, it came direct to you - from The Twilight Zone.
From 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) To 2/22/2026 ( ) is 107 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/17/1966 ( ) is 107 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1966
February 1966
From Wikipedia
February 17, 1966
The draft classification of world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was reclassified from 1-Y (unfit for military service) to 1-A, after the armed services revised standards from accepting only the upper 15th percentile of IQ to the upper 30th percentile. The revision would lead to Ali's refusal to register on religious beliefs, his arrest, and the loss of his championship status.
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from series of posts made here by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2026/02/today-is-02022026.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:53 PM February 02, 2026
Klaatu: The decision is made. The process has begun.
Helen Benson: Oh God.
From 9/13/1948 ( ) To 12/12/2008 ( premiere USA film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" ) is 22005 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/31/2026 ( ) is 22005 days
excerpt
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-the-american-association-for-the-advancement-science
The American Presidency Project
HARRY S TRUMAN
33rd President of the United States: 1945 - 1953
Address Before the American Association for the Advancement of Science
September 13, 1948
If we are to maintain the leadership in science that is essential to national strength, we must vigorously press ahead in research. There is one simple axiom on which this thought is based. The secrets of nature are not our monopoly. Any nation that is willing and able to make the effort can learn the secrets that we have learned. Such a nation may, indeed, discover new facts of nature we have not yet discovered.
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:53 PM February 02, 2026]
From 12/4/1939 ( ) To 2/22/2026 ( ) is 31492 days
31492 = 15746 + 15746
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/12/2008 ( premiere USA film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" ) is 15746 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10307-delegating-the-secretary-state-the-authority-the-president-prescribe
The American Presidency Project
Harry S Truman
33rd President of the United States: 1945 ‐ 1953
Executive Order 10307—Delegating to the Secretary of State the Authority of the President to Prescribe Regulations Governing the Taking of Testimony with Respect to the Authentication of Foreign Documents and the Fixing of Certain Fees in Connection Therewith
November 23, 1951
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of August 8, 1950, 64 Stat. 419 (3 U.S.C. Supp. 301-303), I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State (1) the authority vested in the President by section 3496 of title 18 of the United States Code (62 Stat. 836) to prescribe regulations governing the manner of executing and returning commissions by consular officers under the provisions of section 3492-3494 of the said title, and schedules of fees allowable to witnesses, foreign counsel, and interpreters under section 3495 of the said title, and (2) the authority vested in the President by section 3492(c) of title 18 of the United States Code (62 Stat. 835) to prescribe regulations making the provisions of sections 3492-3496 of the said title applicable to diplomatic officers.
Executive Order No. 8298 of December 4, 1939, entitled "Regulations Governing the Manner of Executing and Returning Commissions by Officers of the Foreign Service in Criminal Cases, and Schedule of Fees and Compensation in Such Cases", is hereby revoked.
IMDb
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Quotes
Professor Barnhardt: There must be alternatives. You must have some technology that could solve our problem.
Klaatu: Your problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change.
Professor Barnhardt: Then help us change.
Klaatu: I cannot change your nature. You treat the world as you treat each other.
Professor Barnhardt: But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually.
Klaatu: Most of them don't make it.
Professor Barnhardt: Yours did. How?
Klaatu: Our sun was dying. We had to evolve in order to survive.
Professor Barnhardt: So it was only when your world was threated with destruction that you became what you are now.
Klaatu: Yes.
Professor Barnhardt: Well that's where we are. You say we're on the brink of destruction and you're right. But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. This is our moment. Don't take it from us, we are close to an answer.
IMDb
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Quotes
Jacob Benson: Mom!
[Jacob, bleeding from his nose, collapses in the arms of Helen]
Helen Benson: [to Klaatu] Whats happening to him? Jacob!
Klaatu: [checking Jacob] They are inside him... He is dying.
Helen Benson: [pleading Klaatu] Help him.
Helen Benson: [whipes blood from her own nose, discovering that she is also dying] Help him!... Please!
IMDb
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Quotes
Klaatu: [to Helen] Your professor is right. At the precipice we change.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 05:15 AM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 02/22/2026
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Today is 02/21/2026
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/21/2026 1:27 PM
This blog-post by me here on my blog is about a trivial, pointless detail that has puzzled me a few times today
Seems improbable
If there's a future occurrence then this makes it less than an improbable occurrence
The detail centers on a minor detail I observed
I have a simple template document that forms the beginning and end of my blog-posts
Puzzles me because when I opened that text-file today I observed details I cannot explain
Sure, I can make mistakes like anyone else
The puzzling part is about the process that is involved
The detail in question is usually the very final detail I create before publishing my blog-post
That detail is a process I use because there are different time-zones in the world and my closing documents the local time for me
So, as a new day begins and I open that text-file, I should see - as is normal - the previous day's date, illustrated here
In this illustration by me, this is how I will see it tomorrow
Today, I should have seen yesterday's date when I opened the file.
But not today.
Today, I opened the file and it already had today's date typed in
So that's puzzling because there was no reason for me to make a mistake and forget - because I had not yet created a blog-post for today and that detail is the last detail that I update
So I am wondering if there is an improbable reason for this observation, other than a likely explanation
Looked around at the Usual Suspects
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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.
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From 7/19/1965 ( ) To 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) is 22026 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/21/2026 ( ) is 22026 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1965
July 1965
From Wikipedia
July 19, 1965
Filming began on the second television pilot for Gene Roddenberry's proposed science fiction series, Star Trek, with only one member of the cast from the first pilot. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" retained actor Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock", who had played the same role in the first pilot, "The Cage", but now featured Canadian actor William Shatner in the lead role as the starship's captain.
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Sep 22, 1966
[tv-series episode begins]
Captain's log, Star date 1312.4. The impossible has happened. From directly ahead, we're picking up a recorded distress signal, the call letters of a vessel which has been missing for over two centuries. Did another Earth ship once probe out of the galaxy as we intend to do? What happened to it out there? Is this some warning they've left behind?
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Sep 22, 1966
Captain's log, Star date 1312.9. Ship's condition, heading back on impulse power only. Main engines burned out. The ship's space warp ability gone. Earth bases which were only days away are now years in the distance. Our overriding question now is what destroyed the Valiant? They lived through the barrier, just as we have. What happened to them after that?
[Bridge]
DEHNER: Autopsy report, sir. Each case showed damage to the body's neural circuit. An area of the brain was burned out.
KIRK: And you, are you feeling all right?
DEHNER: Yes. Mitchell, too, except for his eyes. We're trying to find a reason for that now, and why, out of our whole crew, only certain people were affected.
SPOCK: I think we've found that answer, Doctor.
KIRK: You mentioned that tests show you have a high degree of extrasensory perception. So do the records of the others. Gary Mitchell has the highest esper rating of all.
DEHNER: lf you're suggesting there's anything dangerous
SPOCK: Before the Valiant was destroyed, its captain was frantically searching for ESP information on his crew.
DEHNER: Espers are simply people with flashes of insight.
SPOCK: Are there not also those who seem to see through solid objects, cause fires to start spontaneously?
DEHNER: There's nothing about it that could possibly make a person dangerous.
SPOCK: Doctor Dehner is speaking of normal ESP power.
DEHNER: Perhaps you know of another kind?
KIRK: Do we know for sure, Doctor, that there isn't another kind?
KIRK: It is my duty, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to listen to the reports, observations, even speculations, on any subject that might affect the safety of this vessel, and it's my science officer's duty to see I'm provided with that. Go ahead, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Have you noted evidence of unusual powers?
DEHNER: He can control certain autonomic reflexes. He reads very fast, retains more than most of us might consider usual.
KIRK: Mister Scott, would you repeat what you just told us?
SCOTT: About an hour ago, the Bridge controls started going crazy. Levers shifting by themselves, buttons being pushed, instrument readings changing.
SPOCK: And on my monitor screen I could see Mitchell smiling each time it happened, as if this ship and crew were almost a toy for his amusement.
KIRK: Are they right, Doctor? Has he shown abilities of such magnitude?
DEHNER: I saw some such indications.
KIRK: And you didn't think it worth mentioning?
DEHNER: No one's been hurt, have they? Don't you understand? A mutated superior man could also be a wonderful thing. The forerunner of a new and better kind of human being.
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Sep 22, 1966
Captain's log, Star date 1312.9. Ship's condition, heading back on impulse power only. Main engines burned out. The ship's space warp ability gone. Earth bases which were only days away are now years in the distance.
From 2/11/1909 ( ) To 2/21/2026 ( ) is 42744 days
42744 = 21372 + 21372
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/8/2024 ( debut "Dark Matter" AppleTV+ streaming-video series ) is 21372 days
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:05 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 02/21/2026
Today is 02/21/2026
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted on the internet by me: May 17, 2017 11:16 pm
Highway: Keep dreaming, shit ball.
Reese: You're gonna pay full price rummy. I don't believe in no serviceman's discounts.
Highway: Too bad, your old lady does.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-rages-night-disloyal-republicans-130111488.html
Yahoo! News
Mediaite
Trump Rages Into the Night at ‘Disloyal Republicans’ After Bombshell Supreme Court Smackdown
Tommy Christopher
Sat, February 21, 2026 at 5:01 AM PST 2 min read
President Donald Trump raged into the night about “disloyalty” in a series of social media posts after the Supreme Court ruling that gutted the tariff authority he had claimed under an emergency powers law.
On Friday afternoon, Trump held a briefing to blast the bombshell Supreme Court decision striking down his emergency tariff regime.
From 8/8/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA federal government 1969-1974: Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States ) To 2/20/2026 ( Friday ) is 18824 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/17/2017 ( ) is 18824 days
https://www.cyberscoop.com/cia-shark-tank-john-edwards-vmware/
cyberscoop
The CIA is running internal 'Shark Tank'-like pitch competitions, CIO says
WRITTEN BY
Chris Bing
MAY 17, 2017 CYBERSCOOP
The Central Intelligence Agency is using pitch competitions similar to the TV show Shark Tank to spur the development of cutting-edge intelligence gathering technologies, the agency s chief information officer John Edwards said Wednesday at a tech conference.
We have run three Shark Tanks, you know like the TV show, said Edwards during VMWare s Public Sector Innovation Summit. The last one we had 21 submissions. These guys get pretty creative, some dress up as different characters and present and it s a lot of fun.
From 2/10/1906 ( Britain's famous battleship HMS Dreadnought launched ) To 2/20/2026 ( Friday ) 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
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/10/2025 5:22 AM
USS Missouri. Get it? After viewing episode 2 of "Pluribus"?
Daily Beast
www.thedailybeast.com › trumps-treasury-goon-scott
Trump’s Treasury Goon Sneers at Handing Back Tariff Loot
14 hours ago · Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted that Americans will “not see” the billions collected in tariff revenue.
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 3/18/2025 ( from The American Presidency Project website: Donald J. Trump (2nd Term) 47th President of the United States: Memorandum on Removing Discrimination and Discriminatory Equity Ideology From the Foreign Service ) is 22025 days
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:18 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 02/21/2026
Friday, February 20, 2026
Today is 02/20/2026
Stargate SG-1 - "The Game Keeper" - season 2 episode 4 - Friday 17 July 1998
Exploring a strange and beautiful garden in a distant world, the team members are trapped, knocked unconscious, and awakened to find themselves reliving the most pivotal, traumatic moments of their lives. A mysterious Keeper explains that it is all a virtual-reality type game. Forced to watch friends and family dying, SG-1 only wants to escape.
DANIEL
Then why do you lie to your people? Why don't…why don't you give them the option to come out with you?
THE KEEPER
Because it was our kind that damaged the planet in the first place. If I let them out, they will only hurt it again.
CARTER
You're kidding.
TEAL'C
Perhaps your people will not make the same mistakes again.
O'NEILL
(Snidely)
Yeah, you're big on giving people a second chance, aren't ya?
THE KEEPER
(Indignant)
No one is preventing them from leaving. Portals such as the one you've used are everywhere within.
DANIEL
So, you mean we could've left anytime we wanted? All we had to do was go through one of those doors?
THE KEEPER
Anyone may leave at any time. Portals are always open.
O'NEILL
Of course, people have to know they exist to use them.
THE KEEPER
(Contemptuously)
Which you have now shown them.
CARTER
And they have to know that there's somewhere to go.
THE KEEPER
And you have told them *that*. You have ruined everything, poisoned their minds. The damage is done.
From 2/10/1906 ( ) To 2/20/2026 ( Today , Friday ) 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
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)
HMS Dreadnought (1906)
From Wikipedia
Launched 10 February 1906
HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship, the design of which revolutionised naval power. The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her [sic] name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the dreadnoughts, as well as the class of ships named after her.
From 10/10/1891 ( ) To 5/18/2012 ( premiere USA film "Battleship" ) is 44050 days
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/pdf/download/eid/1-s2.0-S0140673601884622/first-page-pdf
https://www.sjdictionarysources.org/horace.html
spell;
Thus Horace uses words:
Sunt verba & voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem
Possis. [Horace Epistle I. 1, lines 34-35]
(Translation from the Loeb Classical Library LCL 194, pp. 252-253)
"There are spells and sayings whereby you may soothe the pain ....")
Google translate
This quotation comes from Horace, Epistles I.1.34. It is part of a passage where Horace advises his friend Maecenas that philosophy and literature (words and songs) can cure the "diseases" of the mind, such as greed or desire.
Translation
"There are words and sounds by which you can soothe this pain, and remove a great part of the disease."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(film)
Battleship (film)
From Wikipedia
Release dates May 18, 2012 (United States)
Battleship is a 2012 American military science fiction action film loosely based on the board game of the same name by Hasbro.
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Stargate SG-1 - "The Game Keeper" - season 2 episode 4 - Friday 17 July 1998
CARTER
So, we're trapped with our…our brains hooked up like computers to some sort of network?
THE KEEPER
Yes, and your minds are very valuable to my residents because you enrich and add value to our own.
DANIEL
Well, wait a minute, wait a minute. How long have your residents been in this virtual world?
THE KEEPER
Roughly one thousand of your years.
O'NEILL
Well, we're certainly not going to stick around for the next thousand of anyone's years.
DANIEL
So, until we came along you've only had your own minds, your own experiences to provide scenarios for your virtual lives?
THE KEEPER
You're beginning to understand.
DANIEL
So, so, wh…what, we're like…we're like new software?
[The Keeper nods as O'Neill looks at Daniel to explain.]
DANIEL
(To O'Neill)
I mean, imagine if you were locked in a room for a thousand years with only a VCR, a TV and five movies. How long could you watch those five movies until you were bored silly? What you wouldn't give for just four more.
CARTER
So you're using our minds, our memories, imaginations, dreams for…for some sort of programming?
THE KEEPER
Actually, I can remove information from only two of your minds.
(Regarding Teal'c)
This species' mind seems to protect against output, as does yours, madam.
(Regarding Carter.)
CARTER
It does?
TEAL'C
Perhaps because of the change in your mind the Goa'uld, Jolinar of Malk-shur, left behind.
THE KEEPER
But fear not, there is no block against *input* into your minds. You two can enjoy our adventures and these two minds,
(referring to O'Neill and Daniel)
they provide more than enough rich experience and imagination to provide years of entertainment for my residents.
O'NEILL
Well, I'm sorry.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:58 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 02/20/2026
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