This Is What I Think.
Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Daybreak
I wasn't thinking of this when I set out to walk around over there today.
Getting there is significant effort for me. I haven't been through there in probably over a year, maybe two years. Doesn't seem as though my feet will ever recover from this stupid desk.
Today, there was a decision point that churned around in my mind for a while as I walked along approaching the decision point. If I had taken the other path then I wouldn't have been reminded again about this detail that I never really cared about in the first place. What really gets me about that specific location is the view from where those new houses are being constructed. The view right now from here in this apartment is fairly remarkable and I have published many photos of that extensive mountain ridgeline, having almost counted all of its trees in the past six years I've been here in this same place, this tiny apartment.
From over there, at Morningside Heights, the view is many times more incredible. I could be living somewhere right now in a place like that if not for the 878 Days. That's what I was working towards and I had every right to believe that is what I would earn for myself.
I wasn't thinking of that place today when I set out for much needed exercise and time away from this stupid desk. I didn't even bring my camera with me. I had to look back through my image archive for an image I might have captured there a long time ago but I didn't find any of my personal images of that precise location and I probably didn't make any there. It's a flurry of activity today. The Google Streetview image is somewhat out of date. The barricade sign is gone there now. That's a major neighborhood thoroughfare there now.
https://goo.gl/maps/NGdQ8UZq1YT3FTSa6
I've tried to image a few locations around there and none of my images come even close to capturing that magnificent view of that mountain range that consists of Idaho and Washington State terrain.
I'm looking at those monkeys driving around who live there and I am thinking about reactions I've seen in other people and that I think is relevant to why I'm still here like this.
There is a class of people in the United States who will never be more than menial laborers. They are resentful of people who have it better. They resent people for only one reason: because those other people have it better.
Those menial laborers resent people who have it better because menial laborers can't afford all the neat stuff they want to purchase.
So they resent the hell out of other people.
All the monkeys lurking around out there around me *because* precisely for the *reasons* I describe in my blog will resent the hell out of me too if I have that big house I was working towards.
Never enters their monkey-head that the better stuff sometimes comes to people who worked for it. For the menial laborer class of United States Americans, they know only menial labor. They are incapable of understanding the notion of earning something better. All they know is they have to labor at a menial job that any monkey can be trained to do better and they resent the hell out of everybody else because they don't get paid a lot of money for their menial labor.
And anybody who has it better becomes targets for their vengeance at the society that rewards not the menial laborer.
They want. That's all they know. That's all that can form in their dullard heads. They want and if you have it then they should have it to, for no other reason than they want what you have. And they don't want to have to work for it. Because they're menial laborers.
Their dullard heads can't Connect the Dots. They're Up With KREM drinking from the newly logo'd steaming coffee mug handed to them with a smirk by Guffy.
It's not like I'm going to hire AOC's undocumented cousins to clean my new house and pay them only a few measly dollars for their hard labor.
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
(from internet transcript)
Guffy: The air force won't give me any pictures of downtown. I'd have to send for 'em. That would be like robbing a bank and using your own car for the getaway.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080792/releaseinfo
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Release dates for
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything (1980) (TV)
Country Date
USA 13 June 1980
Plot Summary for
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything (1980) (TV)
When Kirby inherits only one thing from his millionaire uncle: a pocket watch that can stop time. Only, the bad guys know that he has it, and will do anything to take it from him.
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Chasers (1994)
(from internet transcript)
What is this shit?
You know the rules.
Any female prisoner in transport must have a female escort.
We're here to pick up a guy.
Tony Johnson.
I know who you're here to get.
Charleston doesn't know shit.
This is the N.I.S. report.
This is the correct spelling.
The Navy orders are wrong again.
T-O-N-I.
Like the permanent.
She's female.
Joke's over. Take her back.
No. I can't.
We ain't taking her!
Pretty boy already signed for her.
She's yours.
Forget the rules.
I'll find a dress for you.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/treehouse-of-horror-xiv-223790/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 15 Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XIV
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 02, 2003 on FOX
Quotes
God: I am too old and too rich for this.
http://www.tv.com/shows/love-story/love-came-laughing-36743/
tv.com
Love Story Season 1 Episode 1
Love Came Laughing
AIRED: 10/3/73
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/treehouse-of-horror-xiv-223790/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 15 Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XIV
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 02, 2003 on FOX
Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off Bart and Milhouse get hold of a stopwatch that actually allows them to stop time. They are having a great "time" and almost get away with it, until they are outsmarted by the mayor.
AIRED: 11/2/03
The Simpsons
Treehouse of Horror XIV
(from internet transcript)
(DOORBELL RINGS) Here you go, son.
"To stop time, click watch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096689/releaseinfo
IMDb
With Their Eyes on the Stars (1964)
Release Info
USA 1 February 1964
From:
Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 3:33 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject:
Thanks for Your Order
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/treehouse-of-horror-xiv-223790/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 15 Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XIV
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 02, 2003 on FOX
Quotes
(Homer answers the door)
Death: I am Death!!!
Homer: Death? We don't want any.
(slams door)
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/treehouse-of-horror-xiv-223790/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 15 Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XIV
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 02, 2003 on FOX
Quotes
Homer: Niello?
Professor: Sir I'm honored to inform you that you've won the Nobel Prize.
Homer: The Nobel Prize? FINALLY! So, uh, it's for what? My whole deal?
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2014-featured-story-archive/a-look-back-25-years-since-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall.html
Central Intelligence Agency
United States of America
A Look Back: 25 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
By June 13, 1990 the wall was officially dismantled
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Kerry Burgess, August 18, 2017 9:52 pm
Kerry Burgess updated his status.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/ibm-reinvented-the-typewriter-with-the-selectric-50-years-ago/242624/
The Atlantic
IBM Reinvented the Typewriter With the Selectric 50 Years Ago
NICHOLAS JACKSON JUL 27, 2011
On July 31, 1961 -- fifty years ago this coming weekend -- IBM's groundbreaking new typewriter went on sale. The IBM Selectric reinvented the typewriter by introducing the typeball, a spherical metal object mounted inside of the machine that would rotate and pivot with each keystroke before slamming into a ribbon that inked the page. The typeball replaced a series of individual typebars, known collectively as the basket, that made maintenance difficult and limited speed; if you typed too fast, the bars would jam together.
But it was more than that. The Selectric was designed by Eliot Noyes, a U.S. architect, industrial designer and curator at the Museum of Modern Art who had worked under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Apple-like in its simplicity, the original Selectric was without unnecessary parts; it's the ultimate example of the form follows function principle that guided modern architecture and defined the Bauhaus under Gropius.
As word of the Selectric's superiority spread, sales of this line of typewriters accelerated until they eventually captured 75 percent of the U.S. market. Over the 23 years that the Selectric was IBM's primary typewriter, the company continued to improve upon Noyes' legendary design, releasing the Selectric II in 1971 and the Selectric III in the 1980s.
The Selectric II used the same typing elements found in the first typewriter, but was outfitted with a dual pitch option that allowed its operator to switch between 10 and 12 characters per inch. The Correction Selectric II, a modification to the second model, was released in 1973. It held one of two correction ribbons that the company started selling: one, called "lift-off tape," was adhesive and would attempt to pull the ink from the page; the other, "cover-up tape," punched white ink over the letters requiring correction.
In addition to the standard iterations of the original model, IBM introduced the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter in 1964 and the Magnetic Card Selectric Typewriter in 1969. These two units featured a magnetic storage devices, making them among the first machines to provide word processing capability.
By the time the Selectric III came out, though, the rest of the industry had caught up with IBM and the machines started to fall out of use. The company introduced a 96-character model and attempted to rebrand its line, but nothing stuck. In 1984, the Wheelwriter replaced the Selectric as IBM's primary model. The Wheelwriter had advanced word processing features and electric memory and allowed for multiple typefaces; the Selectric, after more than two decades, couldn't keep up.
That's not to say that you can no longer find the Selectric. This is a machine beloved by its owners, who go out of their way to find replacement parts to keep things in working order. Humorist P.J. O'Rourke famously uses a Selectric typewriter, refusing to punch out his pithy satire on a more modern word processor. So, too, does David Sedaris. Hunter S. Thompson used the Selectric. And Isaac Asimov kept four of them scattered around various apartments so he would always have one nearby.
As a kid, I kept a Selectric in my room in a special case designed for travel. Growing up, we always had a family PC. I typed out homework assignments using Microsoft Word and was computer-savvy from a young age. But, every once in a while, I would pull out that Selectric, roll a clean sheet of paper through its rollers, and bang out a few paragraphs. There's something alluring about being so close to your work, about watching the push of a button set off a chain of mechanical events that leads to a single character appearing on the page -- even today.
[ excerpt ends Kerry Burgess, August 18, 2017 9:52 pm ]
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 1:53 PM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: "Write my way out."
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/delirious-script-transcript-john-candy.html
Delirious
"Write your way out."
This is insane. Absolutely insane.
"Write your way out."
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 December 2012 excerpt ends]
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/releaseinfo
IMDb
Moonraker (1979)
Release Info
USA 29 June 1979
Full Cast & Crew
Roger Moore ... James Bond
Kerry Burgess, excerpt
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"full_text" : "(t1) Delirious (1991) (internet transcript) This isn't a dream. I'm not dreaming. Ow! Why are you playing these games with me, Mr Gates?
Kerry Burgess, excerpt
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"full_text" : "(t2) For the last time, lady, I'm not Gates! I'm a writer! Do you hear me? All I wanna do is get outta this stinkin' little town! Well, then, do it! I mean, you say you're a writer. Then write your way out!"
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-the-next-generation/birthright-1-19128/
tv.com
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6 Episode 16
Birthright (1)
AIRED: 2/22/93
The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything
John D. MacDonald
Chapter 1
(from internet transcript)
It was brighter in the lounge. They looked at him fondly. They were mature, handsome people. They were the finest two people he had ever met. They had slight accents, an international flavor, and they looked at him with warmth and with love.
Suddenly he had a horrid suspicion. "Are you, are you some kind of journalists, or anything like that?"
They both laughed aloud. "Oh no, my sweet," Charla said.
He felt ashamed of himself. "Uncle Omar is, was, death on any kind of publicity. We always had to be so careful. He paid a firm in New York thirty thousand dollars a year to keep him out of the papers. But people were always prying. They'd get some tiny little rumor about Omar Krepps and make a great big story out of it, and Uncle Omar would be absolutely furious."
Charla put her hand over his, a warm pressure. "But dear Kirby, it does not matter now, does it?"
"I guess not."
"My brother and I are not journalists, of course, but you could speak to journalists, you know. You could let the world know what a vile thing he did to you, what a horrid way he repaid your years of selfless devotion."
She was so understanding, Kirby wanted to weep. But he felt an uncomfortable twinge of honesty. "Not so selfless. I mean, you have an uncle worth fifty-million dollars, there's an ulterior motive."
"But you told us how you had quit many times," Joseph said. The warmth of Charla's hand was removed. Kirby missed it.
"But I always went back," Kirby admitted. "He'd tell me I was his favorite nephew. He'd tell me he needed me. For what? All he ever did was keep me on the run. No chance to have a life of my own. Crazy errands all over the world. Eleven years of it, ever since I got out of college. Even there, he told me the courses to take. That old man ran my whole life."
"You told us, my dear," Charla said, her voice breaking. "All those years of devotion."
"And then," Joseph said sternly, "not a penny."
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 6:11 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 09/03/2019