Continuing.
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy, author
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 20 – The Dance of the Vampires
Aboard Nimitz, Toland could feel the carrier heeling into a radical turn, her engines advanced to flank speed, driving the massive warship at over thirty-five knots. Her nuclear-powered escorts, Virginia and California, were also tracking the Kingfish, their own missiles trained out on their launchers.
The Kingfish were at eight thousand feet, one hundred miles out, covering a mile every four seconds. Each had now selected a target, choosing the largest within their fields of view. Nimitz was the nearest large ship, with her missile-ship escorts to her north.
Tico launched her first quartet of missiles as the targets reached a range of ninety-nine miles. The rockets exploded into the air, leaving a trail of pale gray smoke. They had barely cleared the launch rails when the mounts went vertical and swiveled to receive their reloads. The load-and-fire time was under eight seconds. The cruiser would average one missile fired every two seconds. Just over three minutes later, her missile magazines were empty. The cruiser emerged from the base of an enormous gray arch of smoke. Her only remaining defenses were her gun systems.
The SAMs raced in at their targets with a closing speed of over two thousand miles per hour, directed in by the reflected waves of the ship's own fire-control radars. At a range of a hundred fifty yards from their targets, the warheads detonated. The Aegis system did quite well. Just over 60 percent of the targets were destroyed. There were now eighty-two incoming missiles targeted on a total of eight ships.
Other missile-equipped ships joined the fray. In several cases two or three missiles were sent for the same target, usually killing it. The number of incoming "vampires" dropped to seventy, then sixty, but the number was not dropping quickly enough. The identity of the targets was now known to everyone. Powerful active jamming equipment came on. Ships began a radical series of maneuvers like some stylized dance, with scant attention paid to station-keeping. Collision at sea was now the least of anyone's worries. When the Kingfish got to within twenty miles, every ship in the formation began to fire off chaff rockets, which filled the air with millions of aluminized Mylar fragments that fluttered on the air, creating dozens of new targets for the missiles to select from. Some of the Kingfish lost lock with their targets and started chasing Mylar ghosts. Two of them got lost, and selected new targets on the far side of the formation.
The radar picture on Nimitz suddenly was obscured. What had been discrete pips designating the positions of ships in the formation became shapeless clouds. Only the missiles stayed constant: inverted V-shapes, with line vectors to designate direction and speed. The last wave of SAMs killed three more. The vampire count was down to forty-one. Toland counted five heading for Nimitz Topside, the final defensive weapons were now tracking the targets. These were the CIWS, 20mm Gatling guns, radar-equipped to explode incoming missiles at a range of under two thousand yards. Designed to operate in a fully automatic mode, the two after gun mounts on the carrier angled up and began to track the first pair of incoming Kingfish. The portside mount fired first, the six-barrel cannon making a sound like that of an enormous zipper. Its radar system tracked the target, and tracked the outgoing slugs, adjusting fire to make the two meet.
The leading Kingfish exploded eight hundred yards from Nimitz's port quarter. The thousand kilograms of high explosive rocked the ship. Toland felt it, wondering if the ship had been hit. Around him, the CIC crewmen were concentrating frantically on their jobs. One target track vanished from the screen. Four left.
The next Kingfish approached the carrier's bow and was blasted out of the sky by the forward CIWS, too close aboard. Fragments ripped across the carrier's deck, killing a dozen exposed crewmen.
Number three was decoyed by a chaff cloud and ran straight into the sea half a mile behind the carrier. The warhead caused the carrier to vibrate and raised a column of water a thousand feet into the air.
The fourth and fifth missiles came in from aft, not a hundred yards apart. The after gun mount tracked on both, but couldn't decide which to engage first. It went into Reset mode and petulantly didn't engage any.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
[Enterprise bridge]
KIRK: Scotty, as good as your word.
SCOTT: Aye sir. The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. ...Here, Doctor, souvenirs from one surgeon to another. I took it out of her main transwarp computer drive.
McCOY: Nice of you to tell me in advance.
KIRK: That's what you get for missing the staff meeting, Doctor. Gentlemen, your work today has been outstanding. I intend to recommend you all for promotion, ...in whatever fleet we end up serving. Best speed to Genesis.
From 7/16/1963 ( ) To 9/23/1979 ( premiere USA TV series "Trapper John, M.D. ) is 5913 days
From 11/26/1976 ( ) To 10/24/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) is 6541 days
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 8/10/2004 ( ) is 14507 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/22/2005 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official records United States Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital in Seattle: "Mr. Burgess checked into Urgent Care this AM complaining of constipation" - Psychiatry Emergency Services ) is 14507 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/14/2019
One clear conscious memory that seems to very well narrow down the date range is my memory of the weather conditions around that time.
This text by me represents contiguously in form my best effort to determine that precise calendar day.
I clearly remember unseasonable heat just as I was moving into that new apartment in Kent in the Seattle suburbs.
I've checked two sources of historical weather for Seattle in the year 2004.
Both point to August 9th in 2004 as the peak of that heat wave I recall and that seems to me the most likely timeframe.
I remember staying at the Crossland in the south area of Seattle. On Pacific Highway.
Looking now at Google Maps, I see Normandy Park. On the coast of the bay. Then farther south is Des Moines. That sounds right. I see Saltwater State Park there on the edge of the bay. I drove my Jeep Wrangler there for a few minutes one day during the period after I left Spokane Valley for Seattle and I was waiting for my apartment in Kent to become available. Not sure how long that was. Maybe two days.
So that's the area I stayed. I remember the heat. I remember driving with the plastic windows removed from my Jeep as I traveled across from the hotel to Kent and I remember driving on Smith. The traffic was backed up there for a while, might have been a freight train. The heat and automobile pollution was annoying. Yeah, was a freight train that created a parking lot on Smith Street that day.
According to Weather Underground records for Seattle, the recorded maximum temperature for the month of August in 2004 was 92 degrees on August 9th.
In the flat valley area was probably hotter than 92. The official records are at the airport and I would think the valley floor would be warmer. The valley of the Green River.
Long ago, I was very informed of the weather conditions in that area because I often trained on my bicycle in that area.
The maximum for August 10th was 84 degrees.
The maximum recorded for August 8th was 79 degrees.
Turns out I've already looked a few times at August 10th 2004. That *could* be the precise day I moved into that apartment in Kent. I had driven across the state in the weeks earlier to make the arrangements before driving back to Spokane Valley. Then later I packed up my meager belonging in my Jeep Wrangler, attached my beloved 2002 silver titanium Litespeed road bicycle to the rack on the spare-tire on the back and I took off, disappointed I had to leave, but certainly ready to get out of that tiny room and its walls closing in on me, where I had waited for months.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/22/2025 5:39 PM
I remember well that day 05/31/2005.
That was the day I became homeless.
I could no longer afford to pay my rent at my apartment in the City of Kent, a suburb of Seattle
So I left so they would not evict me
excerpt
From 1/3/1993 ( premiere USA TV series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"::series premiere "Emissary" ) To 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent, Washington State, after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I, Kerry Burgess, am secretly drugged against my consent at St. Francis psychiatric hospital in Federal Way, Washington State ) is 4504 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/3/1978 ( from New York Post: "He's first human clone" ) is 4504 days
The Right Stuff (1983)
Alan Shepard: Tell me something else, Mr. Gonzalez. How am I doing?
Gonzalez: I think you're going to make it, man. I think you're going to be an astronaut.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Dr. Helen Benson: You could stop this, couldn't you? If you wanted to.
(Retardoid actor) Klaatu: I tried to reason with you. I tried to speak with your leaders.
Dr. Helen Benson: Those aren't our leaders. If you want to speak to one of our leaders, I'll take you to one. Let me take you.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: JANUARY 07, 2015
You Should Know (better)
I wonder if he pays someone to watch this stuff. Because you know *he* isn't watching it. Can you imagine some kind of out-of-touch-old-guy sitting around on the couch at 8 PM at night watching CBS broadcast television?
Previously here by me, Kerry Burgess
From 6/14/1946 ( Donald J. Trump ) To 5/8/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Stephen King's The Stand" ) is 17495 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/26/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my last day Seattle - my first night again Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 17495 days
From 6/14/1946 ( Donald J. Trump ) To 5/9/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries episode "The Stand"::"The Dreams" ) is 17496 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/27/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my first day at that apartment complex in Spokane Valley - on a day THEY arranged for me ) is 17496 days
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 49
“It can’t be the dreams,” she said.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/16/2024 11:10 PM
A few days ago, discovered that Amazon Prime Video offered a discounted price on the recent version of Stephen King's "The Stand" novel
Tonight, beginning about 9:47 PM, decided to watch episode 1
Created more work for me here at this desk
05/23/2014. Tried to make my new apartment feel more like a home, something I haven't come close to experiencing since that house in South Carolina I had a mortgage on back in the 1990s. Don't care about that place. My new sofa arrived on 05/23/2014. Didn't work.
Everything started for me after I woke up on 05/10/2006. The day before, watching the local live-tv news at 6 PM, I made a note about a guy standing in view of the Seattle Space Needle with a canvas and painting a picture
From 6/14/1946 ( Donald J. Trump ) To 7/29/2001 ( premiere USA film "The Princess Diaries" ) is 20134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/17/2020 ( ) is 20134 days
From 5/23/2014 ( ) To 12/17/2020 ( ) is 2400 days
2400 = 1200 + 1200
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) is 1200 days
From 1/7/2015 ( ) To 12/17/2020 ( ) is 2171 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/13/1971 ( IPO of Intel Corporation ) is 2171 days
From 4/22/1985 ( Sam Altman - retardoid spokesman for "A.I." marketing-hype ) To 12/17/2020 ( ) is 13023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/2001 ( ) is 13023 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9721666/
IMDb
The Stand
S1.E1
The End
Episode aired Dec 17, 2020
A deadly man-made virus, "Captain Trips", ravages the world's population.
Precedent
From Wikipedia
Precedent is a judicial decision that serves as an authority for courts when deciding subsequent identical or similar cases. Fundamental to common law legal systems, precedent operates under the principle of stare decisis ("to stand by things decided"), where past judicial decisions serve as case law to guide future rulings, thus promoting consistency and predictability.
"Homer the Smithers" [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate in N.A.: 25-Feb-96
[phone ringing]
Homer: [answers] Yello, Mr. Burns' office.
Burns: Is it about my cube?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:56 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 04/23/2026
