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Sunday, September 15, 2024

Today is 09/15/2024, Post #5





https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-launches-uss-jersey-first-120329520.html

"You operate the most complex platform on the planet and you continuously strive for excellence," New Jersey’s commanding officer Cmdr. Steve Halle addressed the submarine’s crew during the ceremony.









From 6/5/1993 ( Princeton University, Commencement Week for Class of 1993, Graduate School reception ) To 9/14/2024 ( Saturday ) is 11424 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1997 ( launch 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 US NASA orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 11424 days



From 7/9/1987 ( as me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, enlisted US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 2nd Class (FC2)(E-5), following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia, I arrived at my second US Navy fleet assignment the USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, for permanent duty until 1990 - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) ) To 9/14/2024 ( ) is 13582 days

13582 = 6791 + 6791

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/6/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Interview With Walter Cronkite of CBS News in Normandy, France ) is 6791 days



From 3/6/1932 ( biographical - John Philip Sousa dead ) To 1/17/1991 ( Task Force Normandy begins Operation Desert Storm and 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 21501 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/2024 ( ) is 21501 days



From 10/24/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 9/14/2024 ( ) is 10918 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/24/1995 ( premiere USA TV series "Space: Above and Beyond" ) is 10918 days










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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWTaq-X1qEI

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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:

From: Kerry Burgess {me}

Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM

To: Kerry Burgess {me}

Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006

Kerry Burgess wrote:

I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.

I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.



by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM

As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.

and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.



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: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM

This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/

Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."

9/28/2006 7:37 PM

I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.

9/28/2006 7:47 PM

I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.

9/28/2006 8:34 PM

A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.



by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Salesman

Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:57 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 09/15/2024

Today is 09/15/2024, Post #4






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From 7/6/1948 ( the first US Navy airborne early warning squadrons established ) To 9/15/2024 ( ) is 27830 days

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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/8/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 13915 days










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From 6/25/1982 ( premiere USA film "Blade Runner" ) To 9/15/2024 ( ) is 15423 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/24/2008 ( premiere USA TV series episode "On the Up"::"Robots Replace Workers" ) is 15423 days










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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F









From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 9/15/2024 ( ) is 20302 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/2021 ( ) is 20302 days










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:25 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 09/15/2024

Today is 09/15/2024, Post #3





"Bart Gets an Elephant" [ The Simpsons ]

Original airdate in N.A.: 31-Mar-94

In her room, Lisa vacuums under the bed. She hears music from outside. Looks as though the Little White Girls have decided to do a tour while they play. Even better, President Clinton follows them, jamming on his saxophone. Moe drives by, scolding, "Hey, Clinton! Get back to work!", to which Bill retorts, "Make me!"










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From 3/31/1994 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Bart Gets an Elephant" ) To 9/15/2024 ( Today - Sunday ) is 11126 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1996 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Stardust" ) is 11126 days










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"Bart Gets an Elephant" [The Simpsons]

Original airdate in N.A.: 31-Mar-94

(from internet transcript)

Bart is inexorable: "Uh, Gentlemen, I am not leaving without my elephant." But he and Homer are both tossed out anyway. "Where's my elephant?" Bart demands at the window repeatedly. The DJs close the window, but over the song they play next, Bart's queries can still be heard faintly. At the Springfield Retirement Castle, Abe notes, "Hey, they're playing the elephant song!" Jasper loves that; it reminds him of elephants. Kent Brockman even editorializes, "So isn't that what we're all asking in our own lives -- 'where's my elephant?' I know that's what I've been asking."

At the KBBL studios, Bill and Marty's boss gives them a dressing-down.

Boss: Look, our ratings are down, and the station is being swamped with angry calls and letter-bombs. [A few letter-bombs explode in a pile] And it's all your fault!

Bill: Yes it is, ma'am.

Boss: This is the DJ 3000. It plays CDs automatically, and it has three distinct varieties of inane chatter. [presses a button]

DJ 3000: [stilted] Hey, hey. How about that weather out there? Woah! _That_ was the caller from hell. Well, hot dog! We have a weiner.

Bill: Man, that thing's great!

Marty: _Don't_ praise the machine!

Boss: If you don't get that kid an elephant by tomorrow, the DJ 3000 gets your job.

[Marty punches it]

DJ 3000: Those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.

Bill: [laughs] How does it keep up with the news like that?









Space: Above And Beyond

"Stardust"

TV-series season 1 episode 20, 04/19/1996

US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: My question isn't really about the system. It's about you.

US Marine Corps Colonel Klingman: You got a problem with me?

Cooper Hawkes: Yeah.

Klingman: Sit down.

Cooper Hawkes: You won't be there. I mean, you yourself? You seem okay to me. You seem like you know what you're doing with this stuff. But a machine - all this? It can't feel what we do out there. When we're under enemy attack and it just becomes one big hairy fur ball and you don't know up from down and your heart's pounding because you're taking enemy fire from your 6:00 and 12:00 and you barely have time to think for yourself - somehow we all just know. We feel where each other are. And I'm there for them and they're for me.

Klingman: You're talking about situational awareness.

Cooper Hawkes: Yeah! And I don't see how you can have it sitting in a closet in the Saratoga. Now, I'm not trying to rag on you but have you ever had your wingman - a good buddy - blown out of the sky then have to drive on while g-forces are tearing you out of your seat?

Klingman: I'm an engineer, Lieutenant.

Cooper Hawkes: And then puke all over yourself when you came out of the roll?

Klingman: Yes, but not in an airplane.

Cooper Hawkes: Have you ever been shot at?

Klingman: No. I've never been in a dogfight. But why must I have taken a life in order for you to trust me? This machine - these wires - will save millions of lives. This plan - my idea - is my part to bring everyone home soon. Safe. And I would think you could believe in and trust someone who's working to be able to spend a night with you back home rather than going out to look up your name on some war memorial wall.









Space: Above And Beyond

"Stardust"

TV-series season 1 episode 20, 04/19/1996

US Navy Commodore Ross: Whoa! Son, I don't know if you'll understand what I am about to say. This is "Rosalyn." You damage her you damage me. And I will make you walk all 12.6 light-years back to Fat Anthony's Guitar Parlor in Shreveport, Louisiana, to repair a single nick.

US Marine Corps General Oliver Radford: We wouldn't want that, now, because I'd have to make him walk all the way to Country Dick's Guitar Shop in Austin, Texas.

US Navy Ensign Sangers: We're all secured here, sir!

US Navy Commodore Ross: Country Dick's! Oh, man. It's been a long time!

US Marine Corps General Oliver Radford: That night in Galveston. We were bombed.

US Navy Commodore Ross: I drove those women away singing "The Ballad of Ira Hayes."

US Marine Corps General Oliver Radford: You would have driven anybody away, after six times in a row. Speaking of which: I was driving through Arizona a few years ago. I was with my people, the Navajo, and... I bought this off a guy on the Pima reservation. Claims it's an old letter signed by Ira Hayes, that he wrote at Iwo Jima. I doubt if it is, but I thought about you, and - Hell, I'd like to think it is. I've been wondering about Hayes a lot. First Pima Indian to become a Marine paratrooper. Helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima. Became a hero for a country that... had massacred Native Americans. They say he drowned in a mud puddle. Drunk. Did he ever feel he had been used? That he'd done the right thing? Would he have done it the same way again, if he had a chance?

US Navy Commodore Ross: Too bad the dead don't get a chance to redeem themselves. Is there something that's troubling you because of your new appointment? You are now the highest-ranking Native American officer in the world. Although it's hard for me to imagine you in charge of anything... called "intelligence."









From 1/17/1991 ( ) To 9/15/2024 ( ) is 12295 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/2/1999 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Seth" ) is 12295 days










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https://www.youtube.com/embed/ATz0ulWJOEM

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (Video)

Golden 80s music

from YouTube



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:13 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 09/15/2024

Today is 09/15/2024, Post #2





by me, Kerry Burgess, 09/15/2024 12:37 PM

Is the independence of Ukraine really even worth it?

I mean, what does Ukraine do?

Sure, those ditzy bubbleheads on tv always want to cheer on the underdog. (I have a memory of our division-officer Lieutenant during a port visit to county of Spain in the 1980s telling us to not cheer on the bull at the bullfights arena because that angered the locals)

But the expense of human life just seems so ridiculous

People from Texas are blustering blowhards with ridiculous hats and overinflated sense of importance

If Texas seceded from the USA, all that would happen is they would get a tremendous amount of their people killed and a lot of other people killed

And for nothing.

Texas would never be successful in seceding from the USA

Ukraine is historically Russia, as I understand it

In the 1990s, Russia didn't openly kill thousands - hundreds of thousands of people - because Czechoslovakia dropped out of communism

From what I've read, Ukraine is poor and corrupt

What possible value could they have to NATO other than to agitate Russia

All that war seems to be accomplishing is to chew up people, pointlessly

Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed - so far - and for what?

I cannot ever imagine Russia being stupid enough to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine

So there's no end in sight

Would long-range missiles cause Russia to capitulate?

If Moscow started getting blitzed by Britain's Storm Shadow long-range missiles, would that even cause Russia pause?

No way hell Russia is going to ever nuke Britain. They're not suicidal enough.










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:06 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 09/15/2024

Today is 09/15/2024, Post #1






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From 11/27/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Origin of Species" ) To 9/14/2024 ( ) is 9423 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/21/1991 ( ) is 9423 days









https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/21/obituaries/jack-ryan-dies-at-65-designer-of-barbie-doll.html

The New York Times

Jack Ryan Dies at 65; Designer of Barbie Doll

By The Associated Press

Aug. 21, 1991










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From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 - previously and extensively referenced by me ) To 9/14/2024 ( ) is 6691 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/1984 ( premiere USA TV miniseries finale episode "Lace" ) is 6691 days



From 7/9/1947 ( the marriage engagement announced of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my biological genetic paternal grandmother and grandfather ) To 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) is 21501 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/2024 ( ) is 21501 days









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Lace (1984)

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From 6/3/1983 ( premiere USA film "WarGames" ) To 9/14/2024 ( ) is 15079 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/2007 ( ) is 15079 days










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https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian20070214-01.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------









excerpts, recent reference by me:

http://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/09/today-is-09072024-post-1.html

by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: September 07, 2024

"Metamorphosis" [ Star Trek ]

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967

NANCY Hedford, Federation Commissioner: What's happening? I demand to know.










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:06 AM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 09/15/2024