by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/07/2026 01:41 AM
There is a point to this note.
As happens often in my notes such as this note, I am crafting and assembling information based on a vague notion that has formed in my mind that caused me to begin this note. Not even I know as I write this sentence precisely the content of this note
During this hour, looked through the title page on Tubi and I decided to view again the 2008 "Jumpers"
Seen it before, intriguing story, the starring character ruins it for me. Another starring character is portrayed by the actor Samuel L. Jackson and he always delivers a quality performance in his roles I have seen. I have made blog-posts before about the 2008 "Jumpers". Have not viewed it in a very long time from now.
This title is intriguing to me tonight because of the computer-game Icarus, noted here by me in the past couple days.
Icarus becomes tedious after a while because of the distances involved. I like the vast playability area of the map. Their solution for travel, other than running the character, is with tame animals. I can't get into that process and have ignored it
While back, discovered a modification "pak" that allows instant teleportation of the character to anyplace on the massive map.
I would have abandoned the game if not for that teleportation "mod". Feels like cheating but again, I would have simply quit the game if not for that add-on feature.
With Thursday's new update for the game, that third-party teleportation feature has become incompatible with the new features. Both still work, best I can tell, just not at the same time.
The third-party developer has been updating it every week, after the Icarus develops release their weekly updates for the game, but as of this writing, there is no update to the mod after the newest game update
Where this all leads to
Only after abandoning my search of the third-party modification, did I begin the video for "Jumpers" and I became consciously aware of the similarities with that teleportation mod.
This has caused me to think of branching-reality again
In his backstory at the beginning of the video, he is crashing into trees while trying to figure out how to control his newly discovered power.
I paused the video in the early scenes just as he makes his escape from antagonist portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.
I continue to feel this note is leading somewhere, not completely certain where that will be. I am trying to make the progress of the content of this page consistent with the cognitive process in my mind as I view more of the video
I was still living in that tiny apartment in downtown Seattle - across the street from the Space Needle - at the time of debut of the 2008 "Jumpers"
My blog here was almost 3 years old at that same time.
3 years.
If someone had told me I would still be working on this over 20 years later I would have - I don't know what I would have said.
Not sure right now when I first viewed it. Maybe year 2011. It's in my notes, haven't reviewed it yet
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/07/2026 02:09 AM
So then I did start looking back through my notes, before resuming the video again
It was this part that grabbed by my attention, a detail consistent with another topic that I have referenced several times lately, a detail in that 2008 movie completely lost to my conscious mind until I read it again just moments ago:
[excerpt]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489099/quotes
IMDb
Memorable quotes for
Jumper (2008)
Griffin: You're not a hero David, you're a jumper. You don't save the girl.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 03:59 AM Pacific Time USA Thursday 02 August 2012
[excerpt ends]
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/07/2026 02:12 AM
Now I am trying to recall that specific location I referred to in these notes
This is also consistent with my comments earlier about branching-reality
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted here on my blog, 08/02/2012
[titled by me:] I don't know. Maybe I need to stop worrying so much about the time-traveler effect. Maybe I just need to flow with it.
Not care that my counter-paradox effect causes my thoughts.
Only after running the numbers for today did I start thinking to look up that post I made and that is referenced below. I had no conscious idea about the time stamp of that post. I was surprised to see the time stamp is exactly 3 years ago.
That got me thinking about the exact steps I went through to arrive at that observation today. It started with feeling compelled to read the lyrics from The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go." A short while later I thought I almost made a teleportation jump literally and then I made the blog post announcing same. Then I started running the numbers for today.
I remember that on 31 July 2012 I walked by the location that dream makes me think of. I first noticed it *after* I had the dream and it was a place I know for certain I had never been before. I walked by there last time and I was carrying that "Jumper" DVD in a bag. I was wondering again as I walked by there about why I would have seen such recognizable details in a dream and that sleeping dream seemed to be prescient, as were other details in that local area. When I walked by there on the 31st, I started thinking that maybe it was some place I had seen - will see - just before I make my time-traveler jump to the past. I walked by there last time and thoughts about when my time-travel jump would actually occur relative to this present time was probably one topic farthest from my mind.
I noted the red digital numbers on the billboard nearby read 82 degrees. I noted that because I was actually looking at the time and that was because I had started mentally tracking the amount of time elapsed between my round trips passing that billboard with the clock and temperature gauge on it.
82 degrees.
February 11th.
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Burgess, posted here on my blog, 08/02/2012]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-82
STS-82
From Wikipedia
STS-82 was the 22nd flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the 82nd mission of the Space Shuttle program. It was NASA's second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, during which Discovery's crew repaired and upgraded the telescope's scientific instruments, increasing its research capabilities. Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on February 11, 1997, returning to Earth on February 21, 1997,
From 8/2/2012 ( ) To 3/7/2026 ( Today , Saturday ) is 4965 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1979 ( ) is 4965 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain
Anne McClain
From Wikipedia
Anne Charlotte McClain (born June 7, 1979) is a colonel in the United States Army, engineer, and a NASA astronaut. Her call sign, "Annimal", dates back to her rugby career; she also uses the call sign in her Twitter handle, AstroAnnimal.
McClain is an avid rugby player who has played in the Women's Premiership, the top level of the sport in England, and for the United States women's national rugby union team, known as the Women's Eagles. While her U.S. Army commitments thwarted her international career in rugby and prevented her participation in the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup, she participated at that level for a decade interrupted only by her deployment to Iraq, and credits the sport for her success in becoming an astronaut.
Following her studies, McClain qualified as a Bell OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilot.
Self-made man
From Wikipedia
A self-made man is a person whose success is of their own making.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, has been described as the greatest exemplar of the self-made man. Inspired by Franklin's autobiography, Frederick Douglass developed the concept of the self-made man in a series of lectures that spanned decades starting in 1879.
Originally, the term referred to an individual who arises from a poor or otherwise disadvantaged background to eminence in financial, political or other areas by nurturing qualities, such as perseverance and diligence, as opposed to achieving these goals through inherited fortune, family connections, or other privileges.
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Curtiss-Wright
Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse System (RAST)
Navies around the world rely on Curtiss-Wright's Indal RAST (Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse) system to support ship borne helicopter operations. RAST conducts the securing, maneuvering and traversing tasks with a single Rapid Securing Device (RSD) that is never disconnected from the helicopter while it is on deck. RAST is able to accommodate a wide range of helicopters, even in the most demanding marine environments up to sea state six.
The typical operation of the Indal RAST system begins with the pilot making a normal approach to the flight deck and establishing a hover. The messenger cable is lowered to the deck and is manually connected to the main recovery assist tethering cable, which is then hauled up to the helicopter and automatically locked into the main RAST probe. During a period of quiescence in the ship's motion, the pilot requests the LSO to apply tension to the recovery assist cable. This tension produces a strong centering effect to stabilize the hover and directs the helicopter toward the designated landing area, as the pilot slowly flies the craft down. Immediately upon touchdown, the LSO closes the RSD's arresting beams securing the helicopter probe. The aircraft is ready to be aligned and traversed into the hangar.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/20/2025
Somewhere I wrote about the early months of 1985.
We left the shipyards for our first journey to our permanent homeport in Charleston, South Carolina
The North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras was not only very stormy but also very, very cold outside.
We had to stand there not only as the helicopter landed on that tiny flight-deck, but also remain beside the helicopter wheels until instructed to remove the chains and chock binding it to the flight deck
I was out there on that flight-deck countless times during my assignment to USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy, and that was many times I was out there.
From 2/13/1947 ( ) To 5/18/1985 ( ) is 13974 days
13974 = 6987 + 6987
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/19/1984 ( from my official enlisted US Navy documents: as Kerry Wayne Burgess the undesignated E-3 Seaman US Navy I reported for permanent duty aboard USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy, departing 02/11/1986 (to begin formal classroom US Navy FC/A curriculum of training) as FC3 Kerry Wayne Burgess, US Navy ) is 6987 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/radio-address-the-nation-armed-forces-day-and-defense-spending
The American Presidency Project
RONALD REAGAN
40th President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Armed Forces Day and Defense Spending
May 18, 1985
My fellow Americans:
Not too long ago one of our Ambassadors visited an American armored cavalry regiment stationed on the NATO line in Germany. As he returned to his helicopter, he was followed by a young 19-year-old trooper. The trooper asked him if he could get a message to the President. Well, the Ambassador said that sometimes getting messages to the President was part of his job. And the young trooper then said, "Will you tell him we're proud to be here, and we ain't scared of nothin."
Well, not long ago the Ambassador was in Washington and told me the sequel to that incident. I'd repeated a story in a talk that was carried on our Voice of America radio program, and there in that base in Germany the young trooper heard the broadcast and knew that I'd received his message. His commanding officer said that he ran down the company street yelling: "The system works! The system works!"
Well, the system does work, but not just because Ambassadors can get messages from a 19-year-old trooper to the President. Our system this way of life we call democracy and freedom really works because of the dedicated Americans like that GI in Germany, who've always been willing to defend our way of life from foreign aggressors from those who do not love freedom and seek to destroy it.
excerpts
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-commencement-exercises-seton-hall-university-south-orange-new-jersey
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States: 1981 ‐ 1989
Address at Commencement Exercises at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey
May 21, 1983
Ronald Reagan: Because this graduation year is so similar to that one of 50 and 51 years ago, in the depths of that Great Depression, I remember, diploma in hand, going back to my summer job that I'd had for 7 years, lifeguarding on a river beach out there in Illinois. And I remember all—you didn't think of career, listening to those announcements I mentioned a little while ago on the radio—all you thought about was how, how when the beach closes this fall, where do I go? What job is there?
And I was fortunate. A man who had survived the Great Depression until then, and was doing well out in the business world, gave me some advice. He said, "Look, I could tell you that maybe I could speak to someone and they might give you a job. But," he said, "they'd only do it because of me." And then he said, "They wouldn't have a particular interest in you." He said, "May I tell you that even in the depths of this depression," and so I will say to you even in the depths of this recession, there are people out there who know that the future is going to depend on taking young people into whatever their undertaking is and starting them out so that—whether it's business, industry, or whatever it might be—it will continue on.
"Now," he said, "a salesman has to knock on a lot of doors before he makes a sale. So," he said, "if you will make up your mind what line of work you want to be in, what industry, what business, whatever it is, profession or other," he said, "and then start knocking on doors, eventually you'll come to one of those men or women who feels that way. And all you have to do-don't ask for the particular job you want; tell them you'll take any job in that industry or that business, whatever it may be, because you believe in it and its future and you'll take your chances on progressing from there."
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/07/2026 02:39 AM
So it was year 2012 when I first viewed "Jumper"
Still trying to recall where I purchased that DVD. Must have been a grocery story I walked to.
That would have been those years after I left downtown Seattle and moved out to the suburb city Renton and the section called Highlands.
That was when I began to notice similarity details to the 2008 "The Day the Earth Stood Still", only because I was already there when I first viewed that video, years after its debut, the content details I was completely unaware of.
The similarity details are completely rational and any rational person would agree with my analysis of those details. Especially because I don't care if it's true.
I do not care and have never cared about any of those people, real or fictional. I don't care about that movie. I don't care about those places. I don't care if you agree with me or not, whoever you are.
by me, Kerry Burgess: H.V.O.M at 11:30 PM Friday, December 31, 2010
I still have not figured out the how and why I "remember" being at the wooded summit of Stampede Pass that is a dirt road through the woods up there. I can still visualize that detail but there is still just no way by conscious memory can reconcile that visualization. I did have have an automobile that I would have driven up there until several years before I would have gone up there. [did not have a vehicle I would have used for travel to there] I have these memories of 1998 where I was looking at the place a lot while I was still in South Carolina, before I would have even know what that place was, and I think those memories are real. I think my memories of living in that last apartment are real. That was all part of a the undercover identity that was being established regardless of whether I used it or not. There was one day in 1998 when I just suddenly appeared and in my mind that artificial identity was my true identity and that was the identity I assumed.
IMDb
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Quotes
Cole Sear: I see dead people.
Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?
Malcolm Crowe: Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?
Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don't know they're dead.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/07/2026 03:11 AM
... cognitive process
And then moments later, perfectly framed, perfectly consistent with past occurrences when I make comments and then resume the video to view a completely forgettable scene from many years ago:
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/07/2026 03:15 AM
Time-traveler effect
Time-traveler variables
Counter-paradox effect
From 10/3/2018 ( ) To 3/7/2026 ( ) is 2712 days
2712 = 1356 + 1356
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/20/1969 ( USA Apollo 11 landing ) is 1356 days
From 12/18/2024 ( ) To 3/7/2026 ( ) is 444 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/20/1967 ( ) is 444 days
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/006947706700500102
We were fellow mortals, nought beside?
- Robert Browning
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/08/2023 ~ 03:24 AM
I wrote once somewhere long ago that anything never alive can not ever be considered as 'dead'
https://www.poetry.com/poem/30347/evelyn-hope
Evelyn Hope
Robert Browning 1812 - 1889
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 04:57 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 03/07/2026
