6676. That is the ATM pin code I remember, but I don't think I have ever actually used it. I remember it from 1997 and before. I think it was also the deactivation code for the alarm system in my Country Club Estates house. I remember also the code word for the alarm company was Rios. I recognize the date 2/14/1986 as when I was shot down by anti-aircraft fire, leading to about two months as a POW and then a survival journey across Africa until I returned on 5/13/1987.
From 4/28/1973 to 2/14/1986 is: 4675 days, or 667 weeks and 6 days
Jorge Garcia (born April 28, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the show Becker, and currently stars as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the American television series Lost. Garcia also performs as a stand-up comedian.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Out in the cold 100706
10/20/2006 8:52 AM
6676. That is 1966 to 1976. That is the other ATM code I remember using for a long time. It started off as the deactivation code for my home security system at my house in Country Club Estates in Greer, SC.
There is also something interesting about “66.” If I walked on Mars on 1/21/76, as I have been writing recently, then that date is precisely 6 years and 6 months after the crew of Apollo 11 walked on the Moon on 7/21/69. 6676
That is also the year I have been writing about for being at Princeton. I have wrote that I started Princeton University on 9/2/65, which would have meant I was 6.5 years old at the time, or 6 years, 6 months old. But the number ‘66’ comes up because it was Class Year 1966 when I started Princeton University even though I started in 1965.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 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 wrote something similar over two years ago. Goddamnit. I wrote about slow going on a rough road and something about wishing I would find the interstate. I heard my comments in my journal echoed later, as usual, on CNBC. It wasn’t Squawk Box, but that program that is either before or after. There are two people at the news desk. The woman is red haired. The guy on the left said something about it being slow-going behind a barge, providing commentary to video of some waterway around their New York City location. I knew it was an echo of what I had written.
I recognize that I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy on 4/30/1982. The HMS Sheffield was hit on 5/4/1982. The date 4/30/1982 was a Friday and the following Tuesday was 5/4/1982. 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.
HMS Sheffield (D80) was the second Royal Navy ship to bear the name Sheffield, after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. She was a Type 42 Guided Missile Destroyer laid down by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness on 15 January 1970, launched on 10 June 1971 and commissioned on 16 February 1975.
The ship was part of the Task Force sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck by an Exocet cruise missile fired by a French-made Dassault Super Étendard belonging to the Argentine Navy on 4 May 1982 and finally scuttled on the 10 May 1982.
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The sinking of the Sheffield is sometimes blamed on a superstructure made wholly or partially from aluminium, the melting point and ignition temperature of which are significantly lower than those of steel. However, this is incorrect as the Sheffield's superstructure was made entirely of steel[3]. The confusion is related to the US and British Navies abandoning aluminium after several fires in the 1970s involving ships that had aluminium superstructures. The sinking of the Type 21 frigates HMS Antelope and Ardent, both of which had aluminium superstructures, probably also had an effect on this belief though these cases are disputed. In both cases, it is likely the ships would have been lost in any event, due to amount of explosives involved in such small ships, though aluminium fires did break out. Ardent in particular took a severe pounding, suffering eleven bomb hits, five of which exploded; no ship of her type of any era would have been able to survive such an attack.
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U.S. Navy Slang. a destroyer.
informal term for a destroyer
destroyer
A small, fast, highly maneuverable warship armed with guns, torpedoes, depth charges, and guided missiles.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Re: Journal June 7, 2006, Supplemental
It is interesting to look at the map for that one place I lived, in my artificial memory at least, in Charlotte, NC. My street address was Dresden, for which I have felt some discomfort that I don't want to discuss very much, it produces something almost like dread for what I thought was an obvious reason. I started thinking more about it in terms of the Falklands War and I wonder what it means. A close-by street is named Sheffield. And that near-by park named Sheffield is I think where I remember stopping in one Saturday morning to watch some kind of Little League baseball game, which I remember enjoyed watching because it reminded me of playing baseball in my youth. All this, my apartment, the park, most of where I was riding my bicycle, was in between the two main roads Independance and Central. There is also that Sharon Amity street. Also nearby, although I don't remember actually knowing it at the time I lived there and notice it listed on the map, was the Evergreen Cemetary. I was living on Dresden when I was contract working for Microsoft Charlotte, but I can't remember if I was living there when I started or if I was still living at Arrowood.
Now I am thinking about how I graduated high school on a Friday and was in boot camp that following Monday. I believe that was May 12, 1984, and May 15, 1984, respectively. 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.
[This reminds me of a time, I wrote about this a couple years ago, on the Taylor. This guy we called Patch, a variation of his name, and I were assigned to the damage control section, or whatever it was called, of our division and we were given one of the helo workrooms to work from. We started painting over the metal cabinets for some reason, and eventually I painted a Confederate flag on one of time. I was quite proud of the work I put into it. But the Chief Boatswain Mate made me scrape if off.]
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2006/05_26-61/NAV
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At age 46, she's the first female graduate of the Naval Academy - and the first member of the Class of 1982 - to make rear admiral (lower half).
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She laughed as she recalled reporting to an ammo ship as chief engineering officer only to have a chief petty officer pull her aside to say the crew, mostly white men who listened to country music, was worried. In fact, some of them were out in the parking lot, scraping Confederate flag decals off their trucks.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Sleep journal 2/22/06
Felt like there was a lot of dreams but I can only remember one segment. I wonder if they are getting better at erasing whatever it is I sense to distinquish it as a foreign dream. Maybe it has something to do with the tone of voice they use when they are manipulating my dreams. Perhaps there was an urgency in the past that doesn't exist now and that translates in my perception as something else. The dream I remember from this morning, I think it was just before I woke up, was that I was stationed aboard a U.S. Navy ship. There was a lot more to this dream I wish I could remember, but I think the basic dream was that I was the XO, it may have been a Perry class frigate, but I don't remember which one it was. I remember at one point I was saying that I wanted to be the CO of the Stark, but since that ship has been decom'd I think, I don't know what that means. The only real part I remember about this dream is that I was explaining to the CO how I was going to handle liberty call for our next port. We were leaving on a trip down to Puerto Rico and would stay in port for one night and I was working out the plan for liberty. I remember something about the CO seemed really young, maybe a teenager. I wonder if that is how all COs are if you know one on a peer- or almost-peer basis. That isn't it quite exactly, something about them seeming more human or not so terrible, as I heard them referred to once.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: a real problem for us
Sun, 2/19/06 4:40 PM
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/people/secnav/danzig/speeches/jasn0423.txt
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Q: In the analogy between cyber warfare and the biological one, which is useful in some areas… I see there is a disconnect in our ability to trace to the source if you think about two examples – the Melissa Virus, when the source was traced along a relatively well-defined network of dissemination within days, relative to the example of the fecal matter, the E. coli infection, in the swimming pool and having not had a cooperative subject they may never have known it came from a kid with a diaper or something like that, and it took several weeks to identify that. It’s this trace-ability and, therefore, getting the deterrence seems to have a very big difference in cyber warfare versus biological dissemination.
A: That’s really a great question. We really know we're in trouble in cyber warfare when, following present trends, the source turns out to be the kid with the diaper in that area. [Laughter]
First of all, you're underscoring a very important characteristic of the NEW warfare that I didn't talk about, which is, the distance between the event and the determination of the source.
In my answer to the previous question I highlighted another, though I didn't remark on it as such, which is the delay in the awareness of what's happened. Let a bomb explode, and I know a bomb's exploded. Plant me a cyber virus and it may be years before it becomes apparent with an embedded virus. Give me a biological incident and I can have a lead-time like a day with anthrax or I can build myself longer or shorter lead times.
That then also amplifies the point you're making, which is, I can have more or less distance between the event and the finding of the individual who causes it. I'm not sure that in fact this is a difference between cyber war and biological warfare. I think there are a lot of cyber possibilities that can be extremely well disguised and very difficult to trace, just as there can be some that we can pretty rapidly get to. I think there can be biological incidents that are extremely well identifiable and some that are very well disguised.
On the cyber context just think about if I happen to be an Indian working in Banaras for Microsoft, I'm designing some software code and I write it in amidst several million lines of code--a real problem for us in DOD.
Having said this, my sense is that this also is an argument about the NEW thinking, because now what turns out is that your intelligence apparatus, so commonly thought of as a method of preempting attack, is also a critical part of your ability to manage consequences, to find the individual who did attack afterwards.
Suppose I'm experiencing illnesses and the like, or I get a threat from a terrorist group, knowing something about the capabilities of that group, and about what's abroad and what is being tested and so forth, gives me an enormous leg up on whether I should order Cipro[floxacin] in quantity and rush to the scene, or whether I should do some other things. So I want my intelligence to shape my consequence management and I need to recognize in all these cases that there's this junction very possibly between cause and effect and timing.
