Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
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.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Today is 02/28/2026
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/27/2026 5:31 PM
"forced to testify"
That scumbag Bill Clinton says over and over "I don't remember" and then gets paid millions of dollars to speak at what I can only consider as 'organized bribery'
A pointless exercise today serving only to get the names on the mainstream-media news of those other scumbag politicians.
Other news today on a continuing topic of that mainstream-media hype:
That ditzy bubblehead tries explaining "A.I."
"abused"
All that means is it is hype and it makes more mistakes than not, as though graphic-processing has not been around now already for decades in the past and now is only simply improvements beyond what existed in the 1980s and earlier and it is certainly not worthy of the hype. Because scumbag salespeople slap an "A.I" on anything these days just because you're imbeciles
You're dumb enough to believe that computer-software is capable of independent-thought. Spoilers alert: it is not.
How the hell is computer-graphics of those prancing ballerinas Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt an "artificial intelligence"
What a bunch of bubbleheads, those dim-wits.
So, it's a big news day
What makes this interesting is that the result of my Search Date variable 03/03/1959 is that it returns a result that is my personal activity and not the easily-programmed variable of the original premiere date of that streaming-video series from Paramount and CBS
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/28/2026 01:49 AM
Had the content for this note assembled and crafted a few hours ago
And then I could not bring myself to post it
By Friday evening, had decided to wait until after midnight and into Saturday to post my work
Started feeling bad, decided to lie down and try to sleep
Could not sleep
All day I have thought about my blog-post here on my blog from a few days ago, on the 23rd.
Ideas formed and I just picked a day to look at
Midnight passed into first hour of today Saturday, sat down at this desk, the sense of urgency typical of my work had dissipated and I felt no rush to make the post.
On the 23rd, that day I selected became yesterday and then I looked at today's date also.
So I am including it now in this note
The one and only purpose of my blog-posts here on my blog is my quest for the improbable.
excerpt
album: "Good News For People Who Love Bad News" (2004)
MODEST MOUSE
"Bury Me With It"
(from internet transcript)
Well we moved to the left and moved to the right.
And sure as hell we stayed out almost every single night.
But if the party's over, if the fun has to end,
could you do this for me my friend?
Would you just please bury me with it?
Please bury me with it!
Good news for people who love bad news.
We've lost the plot and we just can't choose.
We are hummingbirds who are just not willing to move.
And there's good news for people who love bad news.
We are hummingbirds who've lost the plot and we will not move.
We have good news for anyone who loves bad news.
Kerry Burgess, 04/29/07 1:41 PM
From 3/15/1998 to 6/28/1998 was 3.433 months. I don't know if that means 3/15/1998 was the last time I saw Phoebe Cates, but how do I really know any of this.
04/29/07 1:44 PM
I got that wrong actually. The date 3/15/1998 was the age difference with me, which I then applied to 7/16/1963.
And it should be 3/14/1998. I'm not thinking too well right now.
goddamnit I hate this place.
04/29/07 2:00 PM
I am thoroughly confused.
And exteremely pissed off.
1985-04-22_1-5 - illustration my me, Kerry Burgess, for context
1963-02-17_1-3 - illustration my me, Kerry Burgess, for context
From 3/3/1959 ( birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 6/28/2019 ( illustrations by me, Kerry Burgess, referenced below here ) is 22032 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/2026 ( Friday ) is 22032 days
From 9/24/2018 ( illustrations by me, Kerry Burgess, referenced below here ) To 2/27/2026 ( ) is 2713 days
2713 = 1356 + 1357
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/20/1969 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon - his 1st of his 6 Earth-Luna lunar-landings with USA Project Apollo, strictly in planning and preparation for his personal activities in deep-space 1975-1977 ) is 1356 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/21/1969 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1357 days
From 9/11/2005 ( blog-post by me, Kerry Burgess, referenced below here ) To 2/27/2026 ( ) is 7474 days
7474 = 3737 + 3737
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/26/1976 ( The New York Times: Secrecy is Cited {The document is the third major government report in eight months detailing improper C.I.A. covert activities at home and abroad} ) is 3737 days
From 10/18/1993 ( launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 2/27/2026 ( ) is 11820 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/14/1998 ( ) is 11820 days
From 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004, employed as technical accounts manager in Microsoft Premier Support for Enterprise and then Microsoft Premier Support for Developers ) To 2/27/2026 ( ) is 9944 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/23/1993 ( ) is 9944 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 12:18 PM Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Was 3/15/1998 the last day I spent with my wife as her husband, Thomas Ray? I used a similar method to arrive at that date as I did with 6/28/1998. The date 6/28/1998 is when I think I woke up, similar to the first episode of “Quantum Leap” that I read about recently, but cannot actually remember watching, with this new identity.
It could be that 3/14/1998 was our last day together and 3/15/1998 was the day I said goodbye to her, until we meet again, as I went to the facility where I would undergo the medical procedure to consciously suppress my memories and replace them with artificial and symbolic memories.
Parkinson's disease
From Wikipedia
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease primarily of the central nervous system
Sigmund Freud
From Wikipedia
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
Death
By mid-September 1939, Freud's cancer of the jaw was causing him increasingly severe pain and had been declared inoperable. The last book he read, Balzac's La Peau de chagrin, prompted reflections on his own increasing frailty. A few days later, he turned to his doctor, friend, and fellow refugee, Max Schur, reminding him that they had previously discussed the terminal stages of his illness: "Schur, you remember our 'contract' not to leave me in the lurch when the time had come. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense." When Schur replied that he had not forgotten, Freud said, "I thank you," and then, "Talk it over with Anna, and if she thinks it's right, then make an end of it." Anna Freud wanted to postpone her father's death, but Schur convinced her it was pointless to keep him alive; on 21 and 22 September, he administered doses of morphine that resulted in Freud's death at around 3 a.m. on 23 September 1939. However, discrepancies in the accounts Schur gave of his role in Freud's final hours led to inconsistencies between Freud's main biographers. A revised account proposes that Schur was absent from Freud's deathbed when a third and final dose of morphine was administered by Dr. Josephine Stross, a colleague of Anna Freud, leading to Freud's death at around midnight on 23 September 1939.
IMDb
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Quotes
Malcolm Crowe: [to Anna sleeping in a chair] Anna?
Anna Crowe: [in her sleep] I miss you.
Malcolm Crowe: I miss you too.
Anna Crowe: Why, Malcolm?
Malcolm Crowe: What, what is it?
Anna Crowe: Why did you leave me?
Malcolm Crowe: I didn't leave you.
IMDb
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Quotes
[first lines]
Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
Kerry Burgess, 10/15/07 11:58 PM
From 3/15/1998 (I was deployed)
Kerry Burgess, 11/17/07 10:26 PM
From 3/15/1998 ( I was deployed and remain 100% deployed )
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bill-clinton-house-epstein-probe-rare-testimony-former-president-rcna260436
NBC News
Bill Clinton tells lawmakers in closed-door testimony that he 'saw nothing' and 'did nothing wrong' related to Jeffrey Epstein
No sitting or former president has testified before members of Congress since 1983.
Feb. 27, 2026, 2:00 AM PST / Updated Feb. 27, 2026, 3:33 PM PST
By Dareh Gregorian, Ryan Nobles and Kyle Stewart
Former President Bill Clinton on Friday told members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee investigating his ties to Jeffrey Epstein that "I saw nothing" and "did nothing wrong," and criticized the panel for making his wife sit for a deposition.
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2026/02/today-is-02262026_26.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:55 PM Thursday, February 26, 2026
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/26/2026 3:21 PM
And for the record:
No. I do not believe *you*, any of you.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/question-and-answer-session-the-annual-convention-the-associated-press-managing-editors
The American Presidency Project
RICHARD NIXON
37th President of the United States: 1969 ‐ 1974
Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Orlando, Florida
November 17, 1973
Richard Nixon: I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.
2006-10-24_8
2006-10-24_3
by me, Kerry Burgess: posted by H.V.O.M at 6:53 PM Sunday, September 11, 2005
[titled by me, Kerry Burgess:] Art thou pale for weariness
I was reading this article yesterday about Dell and it made me think of two things. First, is a theory I had long ago and that theory is that I am caught up in some kind of effort to oust Bill Gates from control of Microsoft. Why I got caught up in it, I do not know, maybe because I already was The Microsoft Candidate. So anyway, the way I read this excerpted section below, along with some clues that were given to me even when I was at Microsoft by someone in the shadows, I suspect there is some friction between Ballmer and Gates.
"People always wonder how well a transition like this will work when the founder is staying very involved," Mr. Ballmer wrote in an e-mail message. But when people work together as well as Mr. Rollins and Mr. Dell do, he added, "it actually helps that the founder is staying involved, because you can continue to draw on each other's strengths." Mr. Ballmer has worked closely with both men, given the pre-eminence of both companies in the personal-computer universe.
As for the second thought this article gave me, that last excerpted sentence reminded me of something that happened while at Microsoft. I described this experience to someone else as the day the Sirius-starlamp dropped from the sky just like in The Truman Show. I was standing up in my desk talking to someone that was standing in the hallway 2 cubicles away. I won't name him here, but I used to sit across from him in my previous cubicle. I was talking happily about a new USB Flash Drive I had. I received it when I was at a conference a short time earlier, it was some kind of Information Worker conference I attended because that is my speciality, creating custom solutions for Microsoft Office applications. So anyway, I was standing there talking about this cool 128MB drive that was small enough to put on your key ring, and then I looked down at my Dell Dimension PC and I said, I don't know why Dell even puts floppy drives in these things anymore. I felt almost like I was dreaming when I read that very same thing in a CNet article the next day. Judging by the date on the article in question, listed below, that conversation at Microsoft must have occured on Feb. 5th. After reading the article, I wondered about who all was standing there listening to me because I assumed one of them must have something to do with it. But I couldn't think of anyone that had those kind of contacts. I had never heard of anyone talking about having that kind of influence. So that reinforced my suspicions there were hidden cameras around me. Just like with Marco in Manchurian Candidate, I could see some hidden camera in some dark, recessed hiding place watching me all the time. And I am convinced it was happening. They just won't admit it because they know it was wrong. And I am convinced even Ballmer knew about it even when I was working there. Then I remember other things from that time, just like in Manchurian Candidate, there was a Rose in my life, and just like Rose, she was named after a flower although it was a very obscure one that I doubt most people ever heard of. There is method of symbolism I like where one object represents another object, but they are very different. Just as one object is very well known, the other object is distinctly unknown and therein is a kind of symmetry that I like. There were other clues that were thrown in there too that were symbolic but not in a symmetrical manner and I don't want to give away more at risk of identifying her. Those were more of what I would call something like substitional symbolism. So anyway, before I get too far off on a tangent....
It was just this very minute, as I researched back to CNet's site to find the article to use as reference for this post, did I notice that the CNet article was published on February 6, 2003. I had not noticed that until now. It is quite the coincidence that I quit Microsoft exactly one year later. That also makes me feel suspicious because I had referenced this article before to other people and I wonder if the date on the original article has since been modified. I just don't know. I suspect they may be doing something like that to deflect attention away from possibly being caught up in all this. After all, they did publish this information. Maybe they published it because Dell told them about it, or maybe the reporter was the person that told Dell about what I said the previous day and then Dell decided to go along with it. So the train of information could have been me at Microsoft to Dell to reporter. Or it could have been from me at Microsoft to reporter to Dell. Or, hell, they could all have been watching The Kerry Channel at the same time, because Everybody Loves Truman. I am living in Bizarro World, I dream of home.
[from internet, hyperlink lost:]
Dell foments floppy's fall
Published: February 6, 2003
The PC maker, which currently ships a floppy with every Dimension desktop, believes that the drive is no longer necessary because of the availability of better storage devices. But it plans to gently nudge customers toward that philosophy. The floppy option on 8250 PCs is the first step. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell plans to offer its $20 USB Memory Key storage device, which holds 16MB of data, in place of the drive for the 1.44MB floppy.
The Dell USB Memory Key uses flash memory and works by plugging into a PC's USB port. When connected, the Dell-branded device appears on a computer's desktop as a removable hard drive, allowing people to drag and drop files for storage or to move them to another computer. When not in use, it fits into a shirt pocket.
[ends - from internet: Dell foments floppy's fall ; - Published: February 6, 2003]
"To the Moon"
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal
01/22/10 2:59 PM
I still don't feel that is the day I returned to Earth from my first landing on planet Venus, though. I think that is around the time I did return but it is not the precise date.
The notion keeps lingering in my mind I returned to Earth in May 1974.
The notion also continues to linger in my mind that I left my inter-solar spaceship on the surface of Earth's moon in 1974 and then I rendevoused with it in November 1975.
From 5/26/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Tall Man"::"Phoebe" ) To 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 Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) is 9141 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/1990 ( ) is 9141 days
From 4/23/1957 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Civilization Studies ) To 11/12/1990 ( ) is 12256 days
12256 = 6128 + 6128
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 6128 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 11/12/1990 ( ) is 8403 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/4/1988 ( premiere USA film "They Live" ) is 8403 days
From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 11/12/1990 ( ) is 7941 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/31/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official US Navy documents: Electrical Safety Indoctrination, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy ) is 7941 days
From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 11/12/1990 ( ) is 7941 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/31/1987 ( premiere USA film "The Lost Boys" ) is 7941 days
https://time.com/21039/tim-berners-lee-web-proposal-at-25/
Time magazine
The Web at 25: Revisiting Tim Berners-Lee's Amazing Proposal
BY HARRY MCCRACKEN MARCH 12, 2014 8:35 AM EDT
On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee distributed a document to his colleagues at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. His unprepossessing title, "Information Management: A Proposal," indicates that he wasn t trying to change the world. He just knew that CERN had vast quantities of valuable information stored all over the place, and that it would be easier to find if it were all linked together in a way that made it accessible from any computer. So returning to concepts he had started exploring in 1980 during an earlier tour of duty at CERN he recommended creating a networked hypertext system to manage all that knowledge.
The idea floated out there for a while before it became reality, at CERN or anywhere else, but what Berners-Lee was proposing came to be known as the World Wide Web.
Several other early dates in web history matter as much as this one does. On November 12, 1990, for instance, Berners-Lee and a colleague, Robert Cailliau, returned to the idea from the 1989 document with a meatier proposal that coined the name "WorldWideWeb." By December 25, they had the WorldWideWeb software up and running at CERN in its most basic form. On August 6, 1991, people outside of CERN got access to the web as a public Internet service for the first time.
Even then, the web was a text-only service that didn t bear that much resemblance to the one that became a phenomenon a few years later. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina s NCSA Mosaic, announced on January 23, 1993, made the web fully graphical; once that happened, it started to catch on, fast.
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasa-shakes-moon-program-test-151505253.html
Yahoo! News
Reuters
NASA shakes up moon program with new test mission before astronaut lunar landing
By Joey Roulette
Fri, February 27, 2026 at 7:15 AM PST 2 min read
By Joey Roulette
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - NASA added a new mission to its Artemis moon program involving a spacecraft docking test in Earth's orbit before landing its first astronauts on the moon in over half a century, overhauling the flagship U.S. moon effort amid competitive pressure from China.
The new Artemis mission, planned for 2027, is one of many moon program changes the U.S. space agency announced on Friday as China inches closer to its own 2030 crewed moon landing goal, and U.S. safety experts warn more testing is needed before NASA makes its crewed attempt to land on the moon, now planned as Artemis IV in 2028.
NASA also canceled an effort to upgrade its Space Launch System rocket to instead focus on increasing that rocket's production and flight rate, which has been slow relative to newer rockets. The move impacts Boeing's roughly $2 billion contract to build a more powerful SLS upper stage, current plans for which have been canceled.
The new mission allows more practice for NASA before its more ambitious step of landing on the moon, which had long been planned for Artemis III. The agency launched an uncrewed test of SLS and Orion in 2022 and is targeting an April launch of Artemis II, taking four astronauts around the moon and back.
The updated Artemis III mission will involve Orion, with astronauts aboard, demonstrating its ability to dock with one or both of the lunar landers in low-Earth orbit. The process is a crucial juncture in the agency's path to the moon.
From 11/2/1975 ( mission begins - my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day launched from planet Earth towards planet Mars - 245 days before his strike to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening extinction by death and destruction to all life on this planet Earth ) To 2/27/2026 ( Friday ) is 18380 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/28/2016 ( ) is 18380 days
2016_Nk20_DSCN1015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Copyright
From Wikipedia
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself. A copyright is subject to limitations based on public interest considerations, such as the fair use doctrine in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film)
Armageddon (1998 film)
From Wikipedia
Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film
It stars an ensemble cast including Bruce Willis
Box office $553.7 million
From 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 11/4/1997 is 1050 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/17/1968 ( premiere US TV series "Julia" ) is 1050 days
From 3/23/1990 ( premiere US film "Pretty Woman" ) To 11/4/1997 is 2783 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/1973 ( premiere US film "Apache on the County Seat" ) is 2783 days
From 1/15/1959 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Executive Order 10800—Implementing the Government Employees Training Act ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 11690 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/4/1997 is 11690 days
From 11/15/1993 ( the USS Wainwright CG 28 decommissioned ) To 11/4/1997 is 1450 days
1450 = 725 + 725
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) is 725 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/releaseinfo
IMDb
Starship Troopers (1997)
Release Info
USA 4 November 1997 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=53509
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at a Dinner for Senator John F. Kerry
November 4, 1997
Thank you very much, John, Teresa, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I would very much like to thank Senator Kerry for explaining the commitments he made in the last election, because we were all wondering why we were here tonight. [Laughter] And now we know we've come to help Reverend Kerry keep his vow of poverty. [Laughter]
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
LILY: Borg? It sounds Swedish. ...How big is this ship?
PICARD: There are twenty-four decks. Almost seven hundred metres long.
LILY: It took me six months to scrounge up enough titanium just to build a four-metre cockpit. ...How much did this thing cost?
PICARD: The economics of the future are somewhat different. ...You see, money doesn't exist in the twenty-fourth century.
LILY: No money! You mean you don't get paid.
PICARD: The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. ...We work to better ourselves ...and the rest of humanity. Actually we're rather like yourself and Doctor Cochrane.
[Lily chuckles]
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 12/24/07 8:01 AM
From 11/2/1975 ( I launch from Earth by myself to intercept the comet in the outer solar system ) to 11/13/1987 ( premiere US movie "The Running Man" ) is: 4394 days
4394 = 2197 + 2197
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 7/21/1969 ( I am one of the Apollo 11 astronauts walking on the Moon ) is: 2197 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/
The Running Man (1987)
Release Date: 13 November 1987 (USA)
Plot Outline: A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 04/06/08 9:46 PM
I look at the career of my wife, actress Phoebe Cates, and think to myself how I directed her career as a study of an audience that has difficulty understanding the difference of fiction and reality. And of course, that is why, according to the movie, the "Linda Barrett" character went to live with her professor of Abnormal Psychology. Takes one to know one, so goes the saying.
I also think of how I planned, as her husband, to direct her career with the future in mind. I knew that years in the future, many of her colleaques in the movie industry, after finding out who her real husband is, other than the public fiction I created to protect our privacy, would look back at her career and recognize the career of an artist and an actress and the wife of a studio executive. A woman with a lot to smile about.
I look at her career and think to myself how her career represents my life after surviving the mission to divert the comet in 1976. I had faced death many times before I left Earth on 11/2/1975 but until the catastrophic damage to my spaceship on 2/22/1976, I had never stared into the face of certain death for so long as I did until my first landing on the Jupiter moon Callisto. After 9 months of watching my oxygen supply run out and knowing that it would run out before I got back to Earth, even though I could have aborted my mission and returned to Earth for repairs and then resume my mission to intercept the comet that was much closer to the Earth by the time I got back to it, my discovery of oxygen on the Jupiter moon Callisto was quite the relief and when I got back to Earth, every day I saw Phoebe and after we got married, I was reminded of how grateful I was to have survived the ordeal and she is life to me and everything that is beautiful in the world. I would look at her every day and think of her as my reward and think to myself that it had been and is all worth it. My last day on Earth before I left on 11/2/1975 was sitting outside with her to watch the sun rise. My concern for her safety was the driving factor in my determination to succeed in my mission to divert the comet in 1976.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 5:58 AM Monday, December 29, 2008
From 12/24/1968 ( I was Apollo 8 astronaut in orbit of Earth's moon ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 4492 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/2/1975 ( I launched from Earth by myself to intercept Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) is: 4492 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 6480 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 11/28/1976 ( I launched from Jupiter moon Callisto for Earth and home ) is: 6480 days
From 2/12/1973 ( Operation Homecoming begins and I was the lead C-141A pilot transporting home the American POWs ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 2981 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 5/1/1967 ( my first flight by myself as jet pilot ) is: 2981 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1
STS-1
The first Space Shuttle mission, STS (Space Transportation System)-1, was launched April 12, 1981, and returned April 14. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the earth 37 times in this 54.5-hour mission.
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by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/27/2026 9:38 PM
"sinister ambitions"
That's news to me at just this very minute
Read my earlier comments
There was no way I was going to sit here and listen to that fool bluster on for over an hour
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-navy-reduces-staff-mission-165909820.html
Yahoo! News
Fox News
US Navy reduces staff to 'mission critical' levels in Bahrain ahead of potential strikes on Iran: officials
Greg Norman-Diamond, Lucas Y. Tomlinson
Updated Thu, February 26, 2026 at 8:59 AM PST 2 min read
President Donald Trump warned in his State of the Union address earlier this week that Iran has "sinister ambitions" with its nuclear program and that the U.S. has not yet heard from Tehran that it will "never have a nuclear weapon."
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5759623-iran-nuclear-deal-stockpiling/
The Hill
by Laura Kelly - 02/27/26 5:35 PM ET
Iran agreed to ‘zero stockpiling’ of nuclear material in US talks: Omani foreign minister
Oman’s foreign minister said Friday that Iran is offering to give up stockpiling enriched uranium as part of a deal with the U.S. related to its nuclear program.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-embassy-staff-436162f886bdaed30c8dd0cdbe1b5aea
AP
By SAM MEDNICK, MICHELLE L. PRICE and MATTHEW LEE
Updated 5:00 PM PST, February 27, 2026
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s “not happy” with the latest talks over Iran’s nuclear program but indicated he would give negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East.
J. Edgar Hoover
From Wikipedia
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
serving a total of 48 years leading both the BOI and the FBI under eight presidents
Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have routinely violated both the FBI's own policies and the very laws which the FBI was charged with enforcing, to have used the FBI to harass and sabotage political dissidents, and to have extensively collected information on officials and private citizens using illegal surveillance, wiretapping, and burglaries. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was able to intimidate and threaten high-ranking political figures.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-attack-02-28-26-hnk-intl
CNN
Live Updates
Trump says US launching ‘massive and ongoing’ strikes in Iran
Updated 5:02 AM EST, Sat February 28, 2026
The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran Saturday morning
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me, Monday 02/23/2026
From 3/18/1905 ( Annalen der Physik receives "On a Heuristic Point of View concerning the Production and Transformation of Light" by Albert Einstein ) To 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) is 44064 days
44064 = 22032 + 22032
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/2026 ( Friday ) is 22032 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(TV_series)
Pluribus (TV series)
From Wikipedia
Pluribus is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan for Apple TV. Set and filmed primarily in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who finds herself isolated after an alien virus transforms the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind, which nevertheless seeks to assimilate her and other immune individuals.
From 3/18/1905 ( Annalen der Physik receives "On a Heuristic Point of View concerning the Production and Transformation of Light" by Albert Einstein ) To 11/9/2025 ( ) is 44066 days
44066 = 22033 + 22033
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/28/2026 ( Today , Saturday ) is 22033 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/09/2025 02:48 AM
Finding this only moments ago, I looked back at my notes for that day, the 7th
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/09/2025 06:55 AM
Anticipated creating a blog-post here on my blog about this, this morning as I view the first episode of "Pluribus"
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/09/2025 07:53 AM
HILARIOUS!
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/09/2025 08:02 AM
Brilliant.
Must continue with the following episode
Scheduled for Fridays until 12/26/2025, they posted the first two episodes for streaming on 11/07/2025
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/14/2025 02:13 AM
Today is the scheduled debut of episode 3 of Plur1bus. I am streaming it on the AppleTV+ subscription channel of Amazon Prime Video.
Episode 1 and 2 debut last Friday, 11/07/2025. I first viewed those episodes on 11/09/2025.
I have no way of knowing when the content was established. Seems very unlikely to me it was established today, that's just dumb. My sleeping-dream was only about an hour ago. I am still anticipating I will observe content in the stream-video that will be prescient of these notes I am making BEFORE actually viewing the video for episode 3
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/09/2025 06:55 AM
Anticipated creating a blog-post here on my blog about this, this morning as I view the first episode of "Pluribus"
Composed in my mind this section opening the note
Changing now that I have reached the scene where she reaches the hospital
Back in year 1986, after 14 months in the fleet, at just over 20 years old, I was already a US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class (FC3) (paygrade E-4 from a scale of E-1 to E-9 for the US Navy) when I started FC/A School at Great Lakes in North Chicago. The vast majority of US Navy enlisted personnel, as I understood it, did not become FC3 until graduating that school. I took the rating exam when I was in the fleet and I was awarded the rating and promotion before I was accepted to the school, having been approved 3 years earlier for the Advanced Electronics Field.
I was assigned to a room in the barracks with three other guys that were straight out of basic training, after completing Basic Electronics and Electricity school, just as I had just finished in Orlando. One of my roommates on base was named Nguyen. Forgot his first name. Everyone pronounced his name as "nue gen". I always remember he told me it was correctly pronounced "when"
I started off this note to make this point:
My blog is over 20 years old now.
It is freely available to anyone that wants to read it
This original-work code-pattern of mine is easy to understand AFTER you read my descriptions of it
Anyone comes along and finds my premise intriguing will find it easy to reproduce AND that is not what this blog-post was intended for me, when I started thinking of this topic a few hours ago
My original intention is to craft this note on the perspective of this day today, 11/09/2025
See, that is what they cannot predict: the day *I* actually view it
So I started working on it from that perspective
Now, because of the scene in the hospital emergency room, I am looking at it from the perspective of both: today and the 7th, it's original debut date
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/einstein/facts/
1879-03-14_1-2
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 02:37 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 02/28/2026
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