I wrote about that somewhere in more detail. I was still a full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle suburbs. I found her on classmates dot com. First time we had communicated in about 10 years. I sent her a recent photo of me participating in one of several local triathlons. She sent me the photo of her and her Withem family.
I rarely if never tried to keep in touch with people from my youth. Ashdown, Arkansas, simply represented to me another infuriating failure in a long-string of Thedia's failed marriages. It was a bastion of her selfishness from when I was a youth.
This post is another entry in a string of posts pointing to a blog-post I have been working on the past week and that I intend to post here sometime in the future from now
by me, Kerry Burgess, May 01, 2007
Lesa Jewell was the woman who sent me the photos of her family with her three children.
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:
01/13/07 10:18 PM
explained that it was a problem with the master cylinder. He showed me how to fix it temporarily and I don't think I ever it got it permanently fixed. The problem was that when the weather was really hot, the pressure would build up in the hydraulic lines and cause the brakes to lock. The temporary solution was to bleed off the pressure by using a wrench to loosen a fitting on the side of the master cylinder while pushing the brake pedal down to the floor. At first, it required two people, but since the master cylinder was on the left side of the engine compartment side of the firewall, I could raise the hood and then get back in that cab and stand on the brake pedal while loosening the fitting on master cylinder under the hood. I have also written about how the shifting rod would lock up sometimes and there was that memorable day in particular when I was on my way to pick up Lesa Jewell for our date to the Senior prom, when we were Juniors, and I had to get out in my white tuxedo in the busiest intersection in Ashdown and un-stick the shifting rods under the hood so I could continue driving. I wonder what all that means in reality.
01/13/07 10:56 PM
I have been thinking for a while that one of the scars on my abdomen is from a bullet that hit the bullet-proof vest I was wearing. If left an imprint on the vest which broke my skin.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/13/2024 ~ 12:13 AM
"The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974)
Oscar Goldman: Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.
From 11/28/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day launched from the Jupiter moon Callisto to return to the planet Earth ) To 8/6/1991 ( ) is 5364 days
5364 = 2682 + 2682
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/7/1973 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) is 2682 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 8/6/1991 ( ) 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 2/6/1942 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: MARINE CORPS OFFICER WILL VISIT PRINCETON ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 9408 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/6/1991 ( ) is 9408 days
From 3/15/1938 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: "Profoundly Moving Creature" On Boards As Reviewer Praises Intime's "Falstaff" ; Commending Smoothness Of First-Night Performance, Professor Gerould Cites Difficulty In Complete Portrayal Of "Fat Old Man Moving In A World, The Standards And Codes Of Which He Defied." ) To 9/19/1989 ( premiere USA TV series "Doogie Howser, M.D." ) is 18816 days
18816 = 9408 + 9408
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/6/1991 ( ) is 9408 days
From 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) To 8/6/1991 ( ) is 1246 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/1/1969 ( NASA director of engineering and development at the Manned Spacecraft Center Maxime Faget proposes design of the space shuttle ) is 1246 days
From 10/31/1940 ( biographical - from Wikipedia: John Renshaw Carson dead ) To 5/7/1992 ( IN THE FUTURE: the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 18816 days
18816 = 9408 + 9408
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/6/1991 ( ) is 9408 days
https://time.com/21039/tim-berners-lee-web-proposal-at-25/
Time magazine
The Web at 25: Revisiting Tim Berners-Lee's Amazing Proposal
BY HARRY MCCRACKEN MARCH 12, 2014 8:35 AM EDT
On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee distributed a document to his colleagues at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. His unprepossessing title, "Information Management: A Proposal," indicates that he wasnt trying to change the world. He just knew that CERN had vast quantities of valuable information stored all over the place, and that it would be easier to find if it were all linked together in a way that made it accessible from any computer. So returning to concepts he had started exploring in 1980 during an earlier tour of duty at CERN he recommended creating a networked hypertext system to manage all that knowledge.
The idea floated out there for a while before it became reality, at CERN or anywhere else, but what Berners-Lee was proposing came to be known as the World Wide Web.
Several other early dates in web history matter as much as this one does. On November 12, 1990, for instance, Berners-Lee and a colleague, Robert Cailliau, returned to the idea from the 1989 document with a meatier proposal that coined the name "WorldWideWeb." By December 25, they had the WorldWideWeb software up and running at CERN in its most basic form. On August 6, 1991, people outside of CERN got access to the web as a public Internet service for the first time.
Even then, the web was a text-only service that didn t bear that much resemblance to the one that became a phenomenon a few years later. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina s NCSA Mosaic, announced on January 23, 1993, made the web fully graphical; once that happened, it started to catch on, fast.
excerpts, see also:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/01/today-is-01022024-post-2.html
Posted by Kerry Wayne Burgess at 10:31 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
Today is 01/02/2024, Post #2
NANCY: I insist you make your scheduled rendezvous with the Enterprise.
KIRK: Miss Hedford, we'll do what we can, when we can. At the moment, we're helpless. You might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.
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 journals: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:24 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 27, 2006
Went to Camp Couchdale in the summer of '81, after graduating 9th grade.
Met a girl named Phoebe, took her out on the lake in a boat and paddled around. We wrote letters for a long time afterwards.
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess at 10:31 AM January 02, 2024]
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 3/13/1974 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Administrators Predict Passing Of Streaking Craze ) is 5489 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/1980 ( ) is 5489 days
From 5/28/1961 ( Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" inspired the founding of Amnesty International ) To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe, 27 days before his strike to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening exctinction by death and destruction to all life on this planet Earth ) is 5489 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/1980 ( ) is 5489 days
From 6/24/1961 ( John Kennedy, 35th President of USA: Letter to the Vice President on the Need for Developing Operational Communications Satellites ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) is 5489 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/1980 ( ) is 5489 days
From 7/21/1979 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan and my sister-in-law Phoebe Cates are lawfully married in the state of Vermont ) To 11/12/1980 ( ) is 480 days
480 = 240 + 240
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/30/1966 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Remarks at the Swearing In of Richard Helms as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ) is 240 days
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/history/80s/Voyager1_1980.htm
Voyager 1
November 12, 1980
Flying 64,200 kilometers (40,000 miles) above the planet's cloud tops, Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Saturn
https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/bmd_death/?name=Lesa_Withem&birth=1966&death=2011
Name Lesa Lynette Withem
Birth 30 Jun 1966 Little River County, Arkansas, United States of America
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/gcms/news/2011/04/17/lesa-withem-306979.php
Texarkana Gazette
LESA WITHEM
ASHDOWN, Ark. Lesa Jewell Withem of Ashdown
http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lesa-l-withem/63524242
Lesa L Withem (1966 - 2011)
LESA L WITHEM'S BIOGRAPHY
Lesa was born on June 30, 1966.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-swearing-richard-helms-director-the-central-intelligence-agency
The American Presidency Project
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
36th President of the United States: 1963 ‐ 1969
Remarks at the Swearing In of Richard Helms as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
June 30, 1966
Mr. Helms, Members of the Cabinet, distinguished Members of the Congress, my friends:
It was a little more than a year ago that I asked Admiral Raborn to come out of a hard-earned retirement in California to take on one of the most critical tasks in Government and to succeed a great Director, John McCone, as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
I knew that I was asking a great deal of this good man. He had already served his country--and he had served it long and well. He had capped his career by playing a vital role in the development of the Polaris missile system. But once again I felt that his country needed him and the President needed him, and he complied, though reluctantly, with my request. He agreed to make still one more contribution to the security of his country and he attached only one condition, that he could leave as soon as we decided upon a permanent successor.
We have come to the White House this morning because both Admiral Raborn and I are satisfied that we have found the best man available as that successor. Both of us have worked closely during the past 14 months with the very able public servant whom we are swearing in today as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and who became a partner of Admiral Raborn as his Deputy by appointment at the same time the Admiral was selected.
I am extremely proud of both of these men and their colleagues. The nature of their work does not often allow public acknowledgment. Praised or damned (and we are living in an era where men who spend all their time concerned with the protection of the security of their country are frequently damned more than they are praised, I regret to say) these men must go about their work without standing up for bows and sometimes are not even permitted to speak out in their own defense. Their role is misunderstood by some of their supporters, and I never read a morning paper without seeing it being distorted by their critics.
In 2½ years of working with these men I have yet to meet a "007." I have met dozens of men who are moved and motivated by the highest and most patriotic and dedicated purposes--men who are specialists in economics, and political science, and history, and geography, and physics, and many other fields where logic and analysis are crucial to the decisions that the President of their country is called upon to make. Through my experience with these men I have learned that their most significant triumphs come not in the secrets passed in the dark but in patient reading, hour after hour, of highly technical periodicals.
In a real sense they are America's professional students; they are unsung, just as they are invaluable.
I do not want this opportunity to pass without at least this President paying great tribute, high respect, absolute complete confidence, and all the recognition that I am capable of giving to patriots like Alien Dulles and John McCone and Admiral Raborn.
In naming Richard Helms to the post of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on the eve of this hopeful event and wishing Godspeed to Admiral Raborn, we pause to give them the Nation's thanks for a job well done. A little later at his convenience Admiral Raborn will return to the White House to receive a very high recognition and award from the President in the company of the Cabinet and others for the outstanding job he has done.
It is a very special pleasure to me, to one who has spent 35 years in the Federal Government (not always under the protective arm of the Secret Service or the Civil Service) to see one of the high positions in this Government filled by a man who has devoted his entire career to the public service of his country. Dick Helms, the man we are naming to this post, is such a man.
Although he has spent more than 20 years in public life attempting to avoid publicity, he has never been able to conceal the fact that he is one of the most trusted and most able and most dedicated professional career men in this Capital. No man has ever come to this high and critical office with better qualifications.
I think it was Patrick Henry who said, "The battle is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant and to the active and to the brave," and it is to Dick Helms and to the Agency that he will now head that we must look for this vigilance. His own record and the past achievements of his Agency give us full confidence in the future operation of the Central Intelligence Agency with judgment, with intelligence, and above all with great public integrity.
Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 10 a.m. in the East Room at the White House.
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:
04/09/08 5:29 AM
I received that American Legion award toward the summer of 1983.
I had been class president that junior year of high school, before I graduated in 1984.
Tammie Hood had been a good friend to my that junior year of 1982 and 1983. My only artificial memory that refers to Phoebe Cates is something that Tammie Hood commented to me one day. We had every class together except 6th period when I practiced with the baseball team and she was on the cheerleading squad.
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:
04/13/08 2:24 PM
In 1983, I had my clone in Ashdown ask Lesa Jewell to go to the prom, as friends, because her boyfriend, who had already graduated from high school, could not make it back to town for the senior prom, that Lesa Jewell and I could go to because we were juniors. My clone was also class president that year and was in charge of producing the senior prom.
04/13/08 2:26 PM I cannot remember the name of that guy she was dating but I think he was Tim Reed's older brother.
I think it was in the 10th grade when I had been dating his sister, Rebecca "Becky" Reed.
I "remember" that Lesa was clear to me that she just wanted to go to the prom as friends
Reverse psychology
From Wikipedia
Reverse psychology is a technique involving the assertion of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what is actually desired. This technique relies on the psychological phenomenon of reactance, in which a person has a negative emotional reaction to being persuaded, and thus chooses the option which is being advocated against. This may work especially well on a person who is resistant by nature, while direct requests work best for people who are compliant. The one being manipulated is usually unaware of what is really going on.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583433/
IMDb
Friends
S10.E17
The Last One
Episode aired May 6, 2004
The cast members were very emotional filming this episode. Their crying was genuine.
From 12/25/1991 ( 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 as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 5/6/2004 ( ) is 4516 days
4516 = 2258 + 2258
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/8/1972 ( premiere USA TV movie "The Astronaut" ) is 2258 days
From 8/20/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Executive Order 10779 - Directing Federal Agencies To Cooperate With State and Local Authorities in Preventing Pollution of the Atmosphere ) To 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 14065 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/6/2004 ( ) is 14065 days
From 1/30/1960 ( premiere USA TV series "Man from Interpol" ) To 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) is 14065 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/6/2004 ( ) is 14065 days
From 12/6/1953 ( premiere US TV series episode "You Are There"::"Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)" ) To 5/6/2004 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 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 ) To 5/6/2004 ( ) is 3425 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/20/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Statement Supporting Senate Resolution on Voluntary Energy Conservation ) is 3425 days
From 9/22/1964 ( premiere USA TV series "World War One"::series premiere "The Summer of Sarajevo" ) To 5/6/2004 ( ) is 14471 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( IN THE FUTURE: as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) is 14471 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583433/
IMDb
Friends
S10.E17
The Last One
Episode aired May 6, 2004
The final episode drew an audience of 52.5 million people, when it was first shown in the USA. This was the fourth most watched finale in US television history.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Cut to a tv screen, where a reporter, whose name is given as Kellan Brody, is talking to a man, Dr. Gaius Baltar.)
Brody: For those of you just joining us from the pyramid game on Geminon, welcome to The Spotlight, our weekly interview program devoted to people making news on Caprica.
(Gaius is looking out the window and then looking at his watch.)
Brody: Today, we're talking to Dr. Gaius Baltar, winner of three Magnet Awards over the course of his career, a media cult figure and a personal friend of President Adar's.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:40 PM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 02/13/2024
