Star Trek: Discovery
"That Hope is You, Part 2"
TV-series season 3 episode 13, finale episode
Su'Kal's mother: Tell his grandfather to float him.
Star Trek: Discovery
"That Hope is You, Part 2"
TV-series season 3 episode 13, finale episode
Su'Kal's mother: He will understand.
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2022/01/today-is-monday-01312022-post-2.html
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 8:17 PM Monday, January 31, 2022
Homer Simpson: [to S.S. Antarctica] Quack, quack, quack.
[penguins chuckle]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius
Sirius
From Wikipedia
Sirius is known colloquially as the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (the Greater Dog). The heliacal rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, the star marked winter and was an important reference for their navigation around the Pacific Ocean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius
Sirius
From Wikipedia
The ancient Greeks observed that the appearance of Sirius as the morning star heralded the hot and dry summer and feared that the star caused plants to wilt, men to weaken, and women to become aroused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius
Sirius
From Wikipedia
Discovery of Sirius B
In 1844, the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced from changes in the proper motion of Sirius that it had an unseen companion. On 31 January 1862, American telescope-maker and astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint companion, which is now called Sirius B, or affectionately "the Pup".
From 8/3/1749 ( ***** NO MATCH FOUND ***** ) To 1/31/1862 ( ***** NO MATCH FOUND ***** ) is 41088 days
41088 = 20544 + 20544
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/31/2022 ( ) is 20544 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1749
1749
From Wikipedia
August 3
French explorer Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville, commissioned by New France to explore the Ohio Territory claimed by both France and Britain, buries the first of six engraved lead markers claiming the land for King Louis XV of France. The first plate is buried on the banks of the Allegheny River, near a rock with petroglyphs
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689416
Ohio Valley History
For both the French and the British, the end of the War of the Austrian Succession was merely a suspension of fighting, and both sides planned for the next war. In North America, that involved major new installations, such as the building of Halifax and a naval base, reinforcing vulnerable locations, such as St. John's, Newfoundland, or securing contested territory, such as the Ohio Country. In June 1749, the French sent Pierre-Joseph Céloron de Blainville with more than two hundred men to mark the perimeter of the Ohio Country with lead plates declaring that the territory belonged to France. On that trip, he discovered how indifferent, if not hostile, to the French were former Indigenous allies now living in Ohio and how casually they traded with the British.
Needing more than lead plates to demonstrate their claim, the French built four forts on the Venango Trail, which linked Lake Erie with the upper Ohio Valley: in 1753 Fort Presque Isle on Lake Erie and Fort le Boeuf on French Creek within the Ohio River watershed; and in 1754 Fort Machault at the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River and Fort Duquesne, where the Allegheny and Monogehela rivers converge and become the Ohio River. As is well known, in 1754 Virginia sent its militia under Col. George Washington to drive the French out of the Ohio Valley, triggering the North American fighting in what would become the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).
From: Kerry Burgess
Date: 3/26/19 3:26 PM (GMT-08:00)
and I don't want to be Homer Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: year 2006
I think I wrote his name as William Homer Burgess, but I was thinking later that it was actually Homer William Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: October 02, 2020
The oldest person I knew when I was child was Homer Burgess.
After a life-time of menial-labor, he had a crippled arm and a few acres with a crappy little house-trailer in the snake- and tick-infested woods of Antlers, Oklahoma.
I've written before about the "context" of people living in the USA as technology booms.
That article makes me think of Homer Burgess in the year 1919. I have no idea what life was like for him, because none of them ever talked much about it
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 9:51 PM October 03, 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlow_Shapley
Harlow Shapley
From Wikipedia
Conversion to Hubble's ideas
He reportedly told a colleague, "Here is the letter that destroyed my universe."
in early 1947, Shapley became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). At the time, the AAAS's choice appeared to be a "rebuke" of HUAC and a positive championing of scientists.
In his inaugural address, Shapley referred to the danger of the "genius maniac" and proposed the elimination of "all primates that show any evidence of signs of genius or even talent".
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 9:47 AM October 03, 2020
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
Walking Distance (1959)
Quotes
Robert Sloan: Martin, is it so bad where you're from?
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 9:46 AM October 03, 2020
IMDb
The Twilight Zone
Walking Distance (1959)
Quotes
Narrator: [Closing Narration] Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things, but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives - trying to go home again.
From 1/3/1906 to 11/2/1965 is 59 years, 303 days
http://okobits.tributes.com/obituary/show/William-Burgess-54056501
https://sortedbybirthdate.com/1900-2020.html
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 10/19/2006 9:21 PM
I have also been thinking lately about a “memory” I have of Sirius. I asked Homer Burgess one time when I was a kid and I was on their farm in Antlers what was the meaning of the expression about “dog days of summer.” He told me it had something to do with rattlesnakes and you always needed to have a dog with you when you were in the woods during the summer, something about the rattlesnakes could not see during that time. Later I read that it had something to do with the Sirius star, also known as the Dog Star being present in the sky during the summer.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 02:40 AM Pacific-time USA Wednesday 02/02/2022
