by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/23/2025 12:33 AM
Time for another installment of: Why Did I Just Do That?
After working on it for a while, no answers here
I am beginning to suspect it is Vaporware, just like the popular-culture "A.I.".
People see what they want to see.
I think it is dangerous for those reasons. Too many superstitious people around. They are gullible and naive enough to be very dangerous is something were to cause even the slightest level of adversity in this First Worlder culture of wimps.
Today I am thinking back to when that "Melissa" conflagration first happened.
In 1995, I worked telephone support as a technical specialist for the product Microsoft Windows 95, just as it released to the public. Every technical problem people across the country had with it came into my telephone asking for my help resolving their technical problems with Microsoft Windows 95.
So I knew very well the problems people had with that product
So I also quickly recognized how that hackney miscreate creator of "Melissa" had so creatively duped all those people.
He or she took advantage of a new feature in Microsoft Windows 95.
With their new long filename support, they also had a option to turn off file-type extensions
When I worked onsite for customers after 1995 and before the "Melissa" struck, I always configured PCs to display file-type extensions
So that hackney guy creating "Melissa" took advantage of file-type extensions that were off by creating a filename that featured a period character followed by three letters.
I forget the details now but it would have been something like: Melissa.jpg
Because the file-types were not displayed, what you were actually getting was Melissa.jpg.doc
Even the people I worked with at the time didn't realize what had happened until I explained it on a whiteboard at work.
https://x.com/Tgu78160488/status/1937163793433530866
Sphere (1998)
Norman Goodman: What is it, Harry?
Dr. Harry Adams: Take a look. It's chipped!
Captain Harold C. Barnes: Alright, it's chipped - so what?
Dr. Harry Adams: Well I thought you said this thing wouldn't damage when it crashed and that this titanium alloy was so superstrong there's no way you can hurt it.
Captain Harold C. Barnes: I did.
Dr. Harry Adams: So how come it chips when this scientist just bangs on it with a hammer?
Sphere (1998)
Norman Goodman: Can I ask you something about this reflective surface?
Barnes: Yeah, it appears to be mercury, doesn't it? Except mercury is liquid at this temperature.
Norman Goodman: Oh, no. That's not what I'm talking about. What worries me is that it's reflecting everything but us. I hate to be the one non-scientist that picks this up, guys.
From 11/1/1878 ( ) To 2/11/1998 ( premiere USA film "Sphere" ) is 43566 days
43566 = 21783 + 21783
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/23/2025 ( ) is 21783 days
From 2/13/1998 ( premiere USA film "Sphere" ) To 6/23/2025 ( ) is 9992 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/12/1993 ( ) is 9992 days
From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 6/23/2025 ( ) is 20583 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/11/2022 ( ) is 20583 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120184/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Sphere
Release info
United States February 11, 1998 (Los Angeles, premiere)
United States February 13, 1998
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19930312-01.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
From 12/25/1991 ( ) To 3/12/1993 ( ) is 443 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/19/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Arena" ) is 443 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=NassauLit18781101-01.1.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
"Requiem For Methuselah" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 14 Feb, 1969
(from internet transcript)
SPOCK: How many other names shall we call you?
FLINT: Solomon, Alexander, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin, Abramson. A hundred other names you do not know.
SPOCK: You were born?
FLINT: In that region of earth later called Mesopotamia, in the year 3834 BC, as the millennia are reckoned.
https://www.stites.com/resources/trademarkology/trump-and-his-trademarks/
Note that Reagan did not claim rights in the mark. Trump just chalks this up to him being someone that understands marketing.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:39 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 06/23/2025
