You know that must be a really crappy place to have to work, with all their filthy little animals tracking their dog crap all over the place
You people are so pathetic to be so dependent on those filthy little animals
And you know those mainstream-media parrots are sitting around wondering when I will make a post about yesterday's crash at Spokane small airport
He picked *that day* to crash at that Spokane airport. That tv news station made it "Breaking News" yesterday. Just some guy, crashed his airplane at a small airport.
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:21 PM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 12/03/2024
Hard to taken seriously someone wearing a suit like that.
What the hell is the deal with that gal they replaced Nicole Hernandez with?
Is that some sort of "war paint" cosmetics make-up? She's Native American? She's the KREM Talking Head that I discovered peddling the "Pet Sematary" pattern a while back
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/24/1975 ( ) is 3490 days
From 10/18/1902 ( ) To 12/17/2020 ( premiere CBS adaption of Stephen King's "The Stand" ) is 43160 days
43160 = 21580 + 21580
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/2/2024 ( ) is 21580 days
From 12/1/1945 ( premiere USA film "Dick Tracy" ) To 12/2/2024 ( ) is 28856 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) is 14428 days
From 11/8/1944 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Bronze Tiger To Be Palmer '03 Memorial ) To 12/9/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries finale episode "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 21580 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/2/2024 ( ) is 21580 days
From 11/22/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 12/2/2024 ( ) is 10237 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/12/1993 ( premiere USA film "The Philadelphia Experiment II" ) is 10237 days
Pascual Jordan, in full Ernst Pascual Jordan (born Oct. 18, 1902, Hannover, Ger.—died July 31, 1980, Hamburg), German theoretical physicist who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.
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(Colonial One, interstellar spaceship - Dr. Gaius Baltar is alone, with paperwork spread out before him)
Six: I see they've put you to work. (He looks over, sees her sitting next to him.) Ignoring me won't help.
Baltar: No, I've decided you're an expression of my, uh, subconscious mind playing itself out through my waking states.
Six: Oh, I'm only in your head?
Baltar: Exactly.
Six: Hmm. Have you considered the possibility that I could very well exist *only* in your head? Without being a hallucination? Maybe you see and hear me, because while you were sleeping, I implanted a chip in your brain that transmits my image right into your conscious mind.
Baltar: No, no, see that's me again. My subconscious self is expressing irrational fears, which I must choose to ignore.
Six: (moving closer to him) What are you working on?
Baltar: If you were really a chip in my head, I wouldn't have to tell you, now would I?
Six: Indulge me.
Baltar: I'm trying to figure out how you managed to pull this kind of an attack. You virtually shut down the entire defense network without firing a shot. Entire squadrons lost power just as they engaged the enemy. The CMP's a navigation program, but you, uh, you made changes to the programs that you were building in, backdoors for your company to exploit later.
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/24/1975 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: The last naturally occurring case of the smallpox virus variola major was found on a woman found ill at a railway station in Karimganj in the Assam state of India ) is 3490 days
From 2/19/1981 ( ) To 2/3/1994 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Bart Gets Famous" ) is 4732 days
4732 = 2366 + 2366
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/25/1972 ( introduction of Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera, the original Polaroid instant camera ) is 2366 days
From 2/19/1981 ( ) To 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) is 8883 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: while inport at anchor Monaco and departing the continent from Toulon, France, my permanent transfer from US Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 to Naval Station Charleston, South Carolina, for active duty separation processing and Honorable Discharge from active duty US Navy ) is 8883 days
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 2/19/1981 ( ) is 5934 days
5934 = 2967 + 2967
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/17/1973 ( premiere USA film "Sleeper" ) is 2967 days
From 5/15/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Brain Center at Whipple's" ) 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 United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 11176 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/19/1981 ( ) is 5588 days
From 2/19/1981 ( ) To 6/26/2003 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Modern Marvels"::"Gunslingers" ) is 8162 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted United States 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 ) is 8162 days
From 6/3/1958 ( premiere USA TV series "The Investigator" ) To 2/19/1981 ( ) is 8297 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/21/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Small Arms Operator, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy ) is 8297 days
From 2/19/1981 ( ) 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 5846 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/4/1981 ( premiere USA TV series "The Fall Guy" ) is 5846 days
A miscarriage of justice occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: JANUARY 07, 2015
You Should Know (better)
I wonder if he pays someone to watch this stuff. Because you know *he* isn't watching it. Can you imagine some kind of out-of-touch-old-guy sitting around on the couch at 8 PM at night watching CBS broadcast television?
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/29/2024 06:28 AM
Still yet to make my blog-post about Biden's apology from the other day. You guys are really bad: taking advantage like that of some feeble old guy like him.
Address at Commencement Exercises at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey
May 21, 1983
Because this graduation year is so similar to that one of 50 and 51 years ago, in the depths of that Great Depression, I remember, diploma in hand, going back to my summer job that I'd had for 7 years, lifeguarding on a river beach out there in Illinois. And I remember all—you didn't think of career, listening to those announcements I mentioned a little while ago on the radio—all you thought about was how, how when the beach closes this fall, where do I go? What job is there?
And I was fortunate. A man who had survived the Great Depression until then, and was doing well out in the business world, gave me some advice. He said, "Look, I could tell you that maybe I could speak to someone and they might give you a job. But," he said, "they'd only do it because of me." And then he said, "They wouldn't have a particular interest in you." He said, "May I tell you that even in the depths of this depression," and so I will say to you even in the depths of this recession, there are people out there who know that the future is going to depend on taking young people into whatever their undertaking is and starting them out so that—whether it's business, industry, or whatever it might be—it will continue on.
"Now," he said, "a salesman has to knock on a lot of doors before he makes a sale. So," he said, "if you will make up your mind what line of work you want to be in, what industry, what business, whatever it is, profession or other," he said, "and then start knocking on doors, eventually you'll come to one of those men or women who feels that way. And all you have to do-don't ask for the particular job you want; tell them you'll take any job in that industry or that business, whatever it may be, because you believe in it and its future and you'll take your chances on progressing from there."
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/17/1969 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Address to the Nation on the Rising Cost of Living ) is 1445 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 6769 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted sailor ) is 6769 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 6769 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) is 6769 days
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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.
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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."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:10 AM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 12/02/2024
Today I am thinking there is a strong possibility I read this book again at least once after I first discovered it 40 years ago.
Lately, read so far only to page 182 of 346 in the Kindle edition
Today, 12/01/2024, could not recall any reference in the text to Las Vegas. The reference to the game of dice is verbose, but I suspect there is something else
A keyword search for 'vegas' delivers no results
The first people he encounters, as I recall, have no names in the text.
Milt and Ann he meets in Manhattan, New York City. This today is a variation of that scene, as there are other variations, as there should be, from the original text
For the briefest moment, sampling those luxury clothing items, she made me think of Lucy Too. That was briefly
So, I am looking at the angle of his visit to Las Vegas.
Not wasting my time with the past references I made to Al Gore, as apt as those may seem to be.
WHY WHY WHY THEY needed to make that reference is baffling!
NOBODY CARES!
YOU are never NEVER NEVER! going to profit from my work! NEVER!
I don't care about you!
I don't need your work!
Nearing the end, I am wondering if they did this BECAUSE of my brilliant reporting about real-life events and that tv-series from those Jesus-bunkers titled "Extinct"
They are simply a greedy, mega-corporation
So nothing I find THEY are doing will ever possess any sort of artistic-merit from them
Their work is simply gratuitous and meaningless to me.
Sheesh. And I did just say that here *first* before it showed up in the video several minutes later. One of those "Dark Matter Doors" must be opening behind me as I sit here at this desk, without my awareness of it happening, and it's causing me to decide to continue following that streaming-video serial. It's really lousy and that's the only possible reason I now want to watch at least the next episode, next week.
Deliberately.
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From 12/17/2020 ( premiere CBS adaption of Stephen King's "The Stand" ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 1445 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/17/1969 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Address to the Nation on the Rising Cost of Living ) is 1445 days
From 9/2/1914 ( ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 40268 days
40268 = 20134 + 20134
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/17/2020 ( premiere CBS adaption of Stephen King's "The Stand" ) is 20134 days
From 10/1/2017 ( premiere USA TV series "Extinct" ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 2618 days
2618 = 1309 + 1309
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/1969 ( "Turnabout Intruder" was the final episode of the tv-series "Star Trek" ) is 1309 days
From 5/7/1992 ( 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 ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 11896 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/29/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"Mary 25" ) is 11896 days
From 5/7/1992 ( 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 ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 11896 days
11896 = 5948 + 5948
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1982 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"The Television Explosion" ) is 5948 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 - previously referenced ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 6769 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a US Navy enlisted sailor ) is 6769 days
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 - previously referenced ) To 12/1/2024 ( ) is 6769 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) is 6769 days
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After months of isolation, Isherwood "Ish" Williams, learns that most of the world has fallen to a mysterious illness.
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The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 4
It was an hour past nightfall.
Starkey sat alone at a long table, sifting through sheets of yellow flimsy. Their contents dismayed him. He had been serving his country for thirty-six years, beginning as a scared West Point plebe. He had won medals. He had spoken with Presidents, had offered them advice, and on occasion his advice had been taken. He had been through dark moments before, plenty of them, but this…
He was scared, so deeply scared he hardly dared admit it to himself. It was the kind of fear that could drive you mad.
On impulse he got up and went to the wall where the five blank TV monitors looked into the room. As he got up, his knee bumped the table, causing one of the sheets of flimsy to fall off the edge. It seesawed lazily down through the mechanically purified air and landed on the tile, half in the table’s shadow and half out. Someone standing over it and looking down would have seen this:
OT CONFIRMED
SEEMS REASONABLY
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CAMPION, (W.) SALLY
ANTIGEN SHIFT AND MUTATION.
HIGH RISK/EXCESS MORTALITY
AND COMMUNICABILITY ESTIMATED
REPEAT 99.4%. ATLANTA PLAGUE CENTER
UNDERSTANDS. TOP SECRET BLUE FOLDER.
ENDS
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Starkey pushed a button under the middle screen and the picture flashed on with the unnerving suddenness of solid state components. It showed the western California desert, looking east. It was desolate, and the desolation was rendered eerie by the reddish-purple tinge of infrared photography.
It’s out there, straight ahead, Starkey thought. Project Blue.
The fright tried to wash over him again. He reached into his pocket and brought out a blue pill. What his daughter would call a “downer.” Names didn’t matter; results did. He dry-swallowed it, his hard, unseamed face wrinkling for a moment as it went down.
Project Blue.
He looked at the other blank monitors, and then punched up pictures on all of them. 4 and 5 showed labs. 4 was physics, 5 was viral biology. The vi-bi lab was full of animal cages, mostly for guinea pigs, rhesus monkeys, and a few dogs. None of them appeared to be sleeping. In the physics lab a small centrifuge was still turning around and around. Starkey had complained about that. He had complained bitterly. There was something spooky about that centrifuge whirling gaily around and around and around while Dr. Ezwick lay dead on the floor nearby, sprawled out like a scarecrow that had tipped over in a high wind.
They had explained to him that the centrifuge was on the same circuit as the lights, and if they turned off the centrifuge, the lights would go, too. And the cameras down there were not equipped for infrared. Starkey understood. Some more brass might come down from Washington and want to look at the dead Nobel Prize winner who was lying four hundred feet under the desert less than a mile away. If we turn off the centrifuge, we turn off the professor. Elementary. What his daughter would have called a “Catch-22.”
He took another “downer” and looked into monitor 2. This was the one he liked least of all. He didn’t like the man with his face in the soup. Suppose someone walked up to you and said: You will spend eternity with your phiz in a bowl of soup. It’s like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.
Monitor 2 showed the Project Blue cafeteria. The accident had occurred almost perfectly between shifts, and the cafeteria had been only lightly populated. He supposed it hadn’t mattered much to them, whether they had died in the cafeteria or in their bedrooms or their labs. Still, the man with his face in the soup…
A man and a woman in blue coveralls were crumpled at the foot of the candy machine. A man in a white coverall lay beside the Seeburg jukebox. At the tables themselves were nine men and fourteen women, some of them slumped beside Hostess Twinkies, some with spilled cups of Coke and Sprite still clutched in their stiff hands. And at the second table, near the end, there was a man who had been identified as Frank D. Bruce. His face was in a bowl of what appeared to be Campbell’s Chunky Sirloin Soup.
The first monitor showed only a digital clock. Until June 13, all the numbers on that clock had been green. Now they had turned bright red. They had stopped. The figures read 06:13:90:02:37:16.
June 13, 1990. Thirty-seven minutes past two in the morning. And sixteen seconds.
From behind him came a brief burring noise.
Starkey turned off the monitors one by one and then turned around. He saw the sheet of flimsy on the floor and put it back on the table.
“Come.”
It was Creighton. He looked grave and his skin was a slaty color. More bad news, Starkey thought serenely. Someone else has taken a long high dive into a cold bowl of Chunky Sirloin Soup.
