by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/10/2023 2:36 PM
Because of visions during my sleep a few hours ago today and because of other observations today by me after waking
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/10/2023 12:14 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe
Identification friend or foe
From Wikipedia
Identification, friend or foe (IFF) is an identification system designed for command and control. It uses a transponder that listens for an interrogation signal and then sends a response that identifies the broadcaster. IFF systems usually use radar frequencies, but other electromagnetic frequencies, radio or infrared, may be used. It enables military and civilian air traffic control interrogation systems to identify aircraft, vehicles or forces as friendly, as opposed to neutral or hostile, and to determine their bearing and range from the interrogator. IFF is used by both military and civilian aircraft.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/09/2023 4:01 PM (7:01 PM New York City)
New episode tonight of Saturday Night Live. Still haven't figured out if they broadcast it directly to us or if they record it during Saturday afternoon to an audience that is watching it - hence the "live". I would bet on the latter. People in New York City would know for certain, but they aren't talking
Not sure if I can stay awake that long. Even after 12 cups of strong coffee today from my coffemaker. At least, the broadcast begins here now at 8:30 PM on this west-coast USA.
Why it matters, don't know. Just thowing this stuff out and describing it in my journal these observations.
first read by me, Kerry Burgess, today 12/10/2023
"Shift" - book 2 of the "Silo" collection by Hugh Howey, author
"Second Shift - Order"
page 850
"Did you know him before?" Donald asked.
Erskine nodded. "We worked together. Well, in the same hospital. We orbited each other for quite a few years until my discovery."
"What discovery?"
"I am the one who discovered the great threat," he said. It sounded more an admission of guilt than a proud claim.
"The nanos." Donald remembered.
"We were working on ways to keep soldiers safe, to keep them patched up. And then I found someone else's handiwork in a sample of blood. Little machines trying to do the opposite. Machines made to fight our machines. An invisible battle raging where no one could see. It wasn't long before I found the little bastards everywhere."
From 2/6/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) To 11/12/2012 ( ) is 3202 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/9/1974 ( Richard Nixon resigns abruptly as 37th President of USA ) is 3202 days
"Shift" - book 2 of the "Silo" collection by Hugh Howey, author
page 849
Erskine paid his final respects. Only five of them present to mourn this man who had killed billions. Donald felt Anna's presence beside him and realized the lack of crowds was in fact due to her. The five present were the only ones who knew that a woman had been woken.
Anna donned a cap, her hair in a bun that bulged noticeably through the top. It was little disguise for what she was, useful perhaps at a distance
See also:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2023/12/today-is-12092023.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me at at 10:34 AM , December 09, 2023
2023-12-09_the-genesis-order_10
"Shift" - book 2 of the "Silo" collection by Hugh Howey, author
page 854
"Thurman keeps saying we were already dead," he told Erskine, attacking the question head-on. "Is that true?"
"I never saw a design with a hundred per cent efficiency," Erskine said. "We weren't there with our own work, and everything from Iran and Syria was much cruder. Now, North Korea had some elegant designs. I had my money on them. What they had already built could've taken out most of us. That part's true enough."
He resumed his walk through the field of sleeping corpses. "Even the most severe pandemics burn themselves out," he said, "so it's difficult to say. I argued for countermeasures. Victor argued for this." He spread his arms over the quiet assembly."
"And Victor won."
"Indeed."
William A. Mitchell
From Wikipedia
Dr. William A. "Bill" Mitchell (October 21, 1911 - July 26, 2004) was an American food chemist who, while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and 1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang
In 1957, he invented a powdered fruit-flavored vitamin-enhanced drink mix that became known as Tang Flavor Crystals. NASA started using Tang in 1962 in their space program.
In 1956, he tried to create instantly self-carbonating soda, which resulted in the creation of Pop Rocks.
From 10/21/1911 ( from Wikipedia on the global internetwork: William A. Mitchell ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 20474 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/22/2021 ( ) is 20474 days
From 5/4/1984 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my Ashdown Arkansas High School Class of 1984 awards ceremony when I was awarded the Dekalb Agricultural Award ) To 11/22/2021 ( ) is 13716 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/23/2003 ( premiere USA film "Bruce Almighty" ) is 13716 days
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates - the world-famous actress & from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 11/22/2021 ( ) is 21314 days
21314 = 10657 + 10657
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/6/1995 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Biography"::"Milton Hershey: The Chocolate King" ) is 10657 days
From 7/26/1947 ( Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America is established ) To 8/15/2003 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Birthright" ) is 20474 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/22/2021 ( ) is 20474 days
From 2/28/1953 ( James Watson and Frances Crick announce the discovery of DNA ) To 3/20/2009 ( premiere USA film "Knowing" & premiere USA TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::series finale episode "Daybreak" ) is 20474 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/22/2021 ( ) is 20474 days
From 12/11/1963 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Remarks to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to Officials of the Department of Defense ) To 11/22/2021 ( ) is 21166 days
21166 = 10583 + 10583
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/24/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) is 10583 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 11/22/2021 ( ) is 8512 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/21/1989 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs" ) is 8512 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1
Artemis 1
From Wikipedia [ Retrieved by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/16/2021 ]
Launch date 22 November 2021
https://farming-simulator.com/newsArticle.php?&news_id=237
Farming Simulator
Release-Date and Trailer for Farming Simulator 22 - pre-order now!
June 22, 2021
Farming Simulator 22 releases November 22nd
Farming Simulator 22 will be available for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Stadia. To celebrate the release date, there's also our first cinematic trailer. You can watch it below to get an atmospheric taste of the game.
"It's a calling" - so, let the good times grow!
excerpts
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2023/11/today-is-11182023.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me at 4:38 PM , November 18, 2023
Battlestar Galactica s04e19
"Daybreak"
(from internet transcript)
Gaius Baltar: Over there, between those two peaks, I saw some terrain that looked good for cultivation.
Caprica Six: Cultivation?
Gaius Baltar: Yes. You know, I know about farming. (SOBBING)
Caprica Six: I know. I know you do.
From 7/16/2004 ( premiere USA TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) To 12/10/2023 ( Today , Sunday ) is 7086 days
7086 = 3543 + 3543
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/16/1975 ( ) is 3543 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Dragstedt
Lester Dragstedt
From Wikipedia
Lester Reynold Dragstedt (2 October 1893 – 16 July 1975) was an American surgeon who was the first to successfully separate conjoined twins.
Stargate Atlantis - "Rising" - tv series premiere 07/16/2004
(from internet transcript)
SHEPPARD: Dial it up, Lieutenant.
(In between the two seats is a smaller version of the dialling device in the Control Room. Ford punches in the Gate address. In the Gateroom, the Stargate dials out and kawhooshes. Above the Gate, the ceiling irises open and the Puddle Jumper hovers slowly down until it is lined up with the Gate, then moves forward and through the event horizon. Weir and McKay watch it go.)
WEIR: Be safe.
PUDDLE JUMPER. The ship is through the Gate and in orbit around the Wraith planet. It cloaks.
SHEPPARD: Wow, this is cool.
FORD: Looks like you got the hang of it.
SHEPPARD: Tell you what, Lieutenant, a lot of fighter pilots would kill to fly this thing. It's like it reads your mind.
(Almost immediately, readouts appear superimposed over the front windshield.)
FORD: Did you do that?
SHEPPARD: I-I was just wondering where we go from here.
FORD: I'll take that as a yes. So how do we find them once we land?
SHEPPARD: Well I've been thinking about that too ... (On the wall beside him, a panel opens to reveal a small hand-sized device with a screen on it. He takes the device off the wall, looks at it and then puts it into his jacket pocket.) Now I'm thinking about a nice turkey sandwich.
(Sheppard and Ford look around the cabin but nothing else materialises.)
FORD: Worth a try.
WRAITH CELL. The Wraith and its guards return and walk into the cell. The Wraith walks over to Colonel Sumner, looks at him disparagingly for a moment, then snarls before turning and leaving. Sumner looks back at the others, then resolutely walks out with the guards.
Stargate Atlantis - "Rising" - tv series premiere 07/16/2004
(from internet transcript)
WRAITH HALL.
WRAITH Queen: What do you call yourself?
SUMNER: Colonel Marshall Sumner, United States Marine Corps.
WRAITH Queen: So little fear. Is it valour ... or ignorance?
SUMNER: We travelled through the Stargate as peaceful explorers.
WRAITH Queen: You must eat, yet you resist your hunger. Why?
SUMNER: Why have you taken my people prisoner?
WRAITH Queen: You trespassed upon our feeding ground.
SUMNER: Feeding ground?
WRAITH Queen: All living things must eat. In this I'm sure we are similar. You feel hunger even now -- I can sense it. Yet you resist. Why?
SUMNER: Why do you care?
WRAITH Queen: Hunger is distasteful.
SUMNER (looking at Toran's corpse): Looks to me like the food didn't agree with him.
WRAITH Queen: There we are quite dissimilar, Colonel Sumner. (She leans over Toran, running a long fingernail down his head.) We don't require our food to agree with us.
(Nearby, Sheppard -- with the help of his scanner -- is searching for the colonel.)
WRAITH Queen: What do you call your world?
(Sumner refuses to answer. The Wraith repeats the question but this time her mouth doesn't move and the sound of her voice reverberates. She's clearly exerting telepathic force on Sumner, who struggles under the pressure.)
WRAITH Queen (silently): What do you call your world?
SUMNER (struggling not to speak, but unable to resist): Earth.
WRAITH Queen: It is not among our stars.
SUMNER (still struggling): No.
WRAITH Queen: Tell me of Earth. How many more are there of your kind? (Again, Sumner tries not to let her into his mind.) Thousands? Millions? (delighted) More. Our feeding ground has not been so rich in ten thousand years.
(Sheppard is still making his way towards the hall.)
WRAITH Queen: Your will is strong. (She points at Toran.) This one begged for his life.
SUMNER: Is that the kind of treatment I can expect for myself and my people?
WRAITH Queen: As I have said, all living things must eat.
SUMNER: Then we're done talking.
WRAITH Queen: I think not. Kneel. (Sumner doesn't move. She reaches towards his head. He grabs for her hand but she runs a fingernail down the side of his face. Her voice echoes in his mind.) Kneel. (Sumner falls to his knees.) I have not tasted such strength in so long. (She reaches down and rips his shirt open.)
SUMNER: Go to hell.
WRAITH Queen: Earth first.
(She bends down and slams her open palm onto his chest over his heart, her nails piercing his skin. He screams.)
(Nearby, Sheppard hears the scream and hurries towards the sound.)
WRAITH Queen: How many years must I take from you before you tell us what I wish to know? (Sumner is visibly ageing in front of our eyes.) Or shall I take them all?
(Sheppard is still trying to find the source of the sound. Sumner screams again -- in the few seconds since we last saw him, he has got even older.)
WRAITH Queen: Where is this new feeding ground?
SUMNER (his teeth gritted against her onslaught): I won't.
Stargate Atlantis - "Rising" - tv series premiere 07/16/2004
(from internet transcript)
WRAITH Queen: You must feel hunger by now. (She snarls.)
WRAITH CORRIDORS. A guard stomps down the corridor. After it has passed, Sheppard and Ford come out of hiding.
SHEPPARD: Thought getting in was going to be the hard part.
FORD: That's the first one we've seen. (He attaches some C4 to a wall.)
(Sheppard gets the hand device out of his pocket and looks at it. There's a moving dot on the screen.)
SHEPPARD: Little dot should be him. Go over there. (Ford walks in the direction he indicated, then comes back. A corresponding dot shows on the screen.) Yeah, that's you.
FORD: So we got ourselves a life signs detector. (He grins.)
SHEPPARD: We can name it later.
From 11/22/2021 ( debut "Farming Simulator 2022" by Giants Software ) To 12/10/2023 ( Today , Sunday ) is 748 days
748 = 374 + 374
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/11/1966 ( disguised, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy officer and astronaut was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft US Navy astronaut entering orbit of the planet Earth ) is 374 days
From 3/25/2005 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"Kobol's Last Gleaming - Part 1" ) To 12/10/2023 ( Today , Sunday ) is 6834 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Remarks at a Summit Conference of Caribbean Heads of State at the University of South Carolina in Columbia) is 6834 days
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X12 - KOBOL'S LAST GLEAMING (1)
Original Airdate: March 25, 2005 (USA)
(from internet transcript)
Galactica - CIC
Gaeta: Whenever they're within a certain proximity to one another, they send off a short I.F.F. Burst. Essentially, they're Cylon transponders programmed to identify themselves as any other Cylon transponder.
Tigh: Damn nice work, lieutenant.
Adama: That's very good. Now that we know what they are, I wanna test one in the raider.
Dualla: Dradis contact, Raptor 275, sir.
Tigh: Back early.
Adama: Something's wrong.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-summit-conference-caribbean-heads-state-the-university-south-carolina-columbia
The American Presidency Project
RONALD REAGAN
40th President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at a Summit Conference of Caribbean Heads of State at the University of South Carolina in Columbia
July 19, 1984
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X12 - KOBOL'S LAST GLEAMING (1)
Original Airdate: March 25, 2005 (USA)
(from internet transcript)
Starbuck: I'm putting an autopilot in the raider. Jump him to the baseship, engage the autopilot, punch out get picked up by a raptor. The raider heads to the baseship. Picks up the transponder, allows the raider to approach, nuke goes off. Boom, sir.
Apollo: Might work. Might get you killed.
Starbuck: Would you miss me, sir?
Apollo: I need every pilot I have. Even the screw-ups.
Starbuck: Captain... I'm really sorry.
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19890331-01.2.10&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
From 2/14/1977 ( from Princeton Weekly Bulletin publication, Princeton University: New Book By Jaynes On Origin Of Consciousness Is Sure To Spark Controversy ) To 12/10/2023 ( ) is 17100 days
17100 = 8550 + 8550
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1989 ( ) is 8550 days
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X12 - KOBOL'S LAST GLEAMING (1)
Original Airdate: March 25, 2005 (USA)
(from internet transcript)
Starbuck: You can't be serious.
Roslin: All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. The Cylon you interrogated, he quoted that bit of scripture. He also said that we would find Kobol and Kobol would show us the way, did he not?
Starbuck: Yes, he did.
Roslin: Well, we have found Kobol. Do you believe in the gods, Lieutenant?
Starbuck: Not that it's any of your business, but, yes, I believe.
Roslin: Lieutenant, I'm not trying to put you on the defensive, I just-- I would like you to think this through with me. If you believe in the gods, then you believe in the cycle of time, that we are all playing our parts in a story that is told again, and again, and again, throughout eternity.
Starbuck: That's the way I was raised. But that doesn't mean that my part in the story is to go off on some crazy-ass mission against orders.
Roslin: May I tell you the part of the story that it would seem, I am playing? I am dying.
Starbuck: What?
Roslin: I have terminal breast cancer. I have six months at the outside to live and I've only told three people so I would appreciate it if you kept it to yourself.
Starbuck: Of course. Are you saying that you're--
Roslin: The scriptures tell us that a dying leader led humanity to the promised land. If you go back to Caprica and bring me the arrow, I will show us the way.
Starbuck: This is crazy.
Roslin: You keep using that word. It is crazy, perhaps. But it doesn't mean it isn't true. And it may be our only chance, our only chance to find Earth.
Starbuck: The old man is our last chance to find Earth. He knows where it is, he said so, you were there. The location is a secret but he is going to take us there.
Roslin: Commander Adama has no idea where Earth is. He never did, he made it up in order to give people hope.
Starbuck: You're lying.
Roslin: Go ask him.
Starbuck: I will.
Galactica - Hangar
Starbuck: I'm gonna need one more in-flight test for the autopilot and nav systems before we jump for Kobol.
Adama: Right.
Starbuck: Can I ask you a question, boss?
Adama: Shoot.
Starbuck: How much longer 'til we reach Earth?
Adama: It's hard to say.
Starbuck: You got a guess?
Adama: You know I don't like to guess.
Starbuck: We getting closer?
Adama: I'm sure we are. Good luck on the next test.
Raider and Viper - Space
Starbuck: Apollo/Starbuck, I'm ready over here.
Apollo: Okay, Starbuck, the board is green.
Starbuck: Copy that. Powering up for the autopilot test. This is Starbuck, request permission to speak with Galactica actual.
Galactica - CIC
Dualla: Starbuck wants to speak to you, sir. She's-- she's on a scrambled channel.
Adama: Go ahead.
Raider - Space
Starbuck: I believed you, believed in Earth.
Galactica - CIC
Adama: What are you doing, Starbuck?
Raider - Space
Starbuck: Bringing home the cat, sir.
Galactica - CIC
Adama: We can talk about this.
Raider - Space
Starbuck: No, I don't think so.
Galactica - CIC
Adama: I want you to, remember one thing. I do not regret anything that I did. Be sure that whatever you're gonna do, you don't regret it later, do you understand me?
Raider - Space
Starbuck: I guess we'll find out.
Galactica - CIC
Gaeta: Commander, she's spinning up the raider's F.T.L. Drive.
Tigh: What? This is an autopilot test, what the hell is she doing?
Viper - Space
Apollo: What are you doing, Kara?
The raider jumps away
Apollo: Galactica/Apollo, she just jumped away. Repeat, Starbuck and the raider just jumped away.
Galactica - CIC
Tigh: She wasn't scheduled for a jump test. Where the hell did she go?
Adama: Home.
[ tv-series episode s1e12 ends ]
From 10/24/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 12/11/2023 ( Tomorrow , Monday ) is 10640 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 12/15/2023 ( next Friday ) is 10640 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: 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 US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:52 PM Pacific-time USA Sunday 12/10/2023
