I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.
This Is What I Think.
Friday, August 29, 2025
Today is 08/29/2025, Post #3
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasa-debuts-orion-mission-control-130000188.html
Yahoo! News
Space (dot) com
NASA debuts new Orion mission control room for Artemis 2 astronaut flight around the moon (photos)
Josh Dinner
Thu, August 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM PDT
The new facility, which opened Aug. 15, will act as Orion's engineering brain trust, with 24 console stations set to be staffed 24/7 during the roughly 10-day long duration of the Artemis 2 mission with people from NASA, Lockheed Martin, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus — all responsible for different parts of the spacecraft's manufacturing. MER will be crucial to monitoring the breadth of Orion's systems and ensuring the spacecraft and crew's safety around the moon, in the event of an unexpected event, according to a NASA update.
The job of those working MER's data display monitors will be to compare real-time data with Orion's expected performance, and to troubleshoot any issues that may arise. While those inside the WFCR are responsible for flight operations, engineers inside MER will be tasked with digging into the numbers to diagnose problems and help provide solutions.
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Quotes
[recording his audio log]
Zac Hobson: Zac Hobson, July 5th. One: there has been a malfunction in Project Flashlight with devastating results. Two: it seems I am the only person left on Earth.
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
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:26 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: February 19, 2006
Their contempt for my physical and psychological well-being continues.
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https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/orion/inside-nasas-new-orion-mission-evaluation-room-for-artemis-ii/
From 8/30/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess the debut of my current and public blog Homeless Veteran of Microsoft - since renamed ) To 8/15/2025 ( ) is 7290 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/18/1985 ( premiere USA film "The Quiet Earth" ) is 7290 days
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The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987)
Quotes
Jim Castillian: Yes, we are, and not easily impressed. Do something bionic.
Steve Austin: What do you have in mind?
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:15 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 08/29/2025
Today is 08/29/2025, Post #2
Invasion
"The Message"
s3e2 08/29/2025
00:07:29
Mitsuki: The Noise. What is it telling me?
Contact (1997)
Quotes
Ellie Arroway: They should've sent a poet.
She does not disappoint.
From 12/21/1956 ( ) To 10/17/2016 ( debut "Travelers" Netflix streaming-video series ) is 21850 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/29/2025 ( ) is 21850 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Terman
Lewis Terman
From Wikipedia
Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford School of Education. Terman is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius.
His son, Frederick Terman, is widely credited (together with William Shockley) with being the father of Silicon Valley.
Snowfall - Baby Teeth - television series Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Aug 23, 2017 on FX [ Comcast On Demand Thursday 31 August 2017 ]
Episode Summary
Franklin's business ramps up, causing a rift in his inexperienced crew. Also: Teddy pulls out all the stops to protect Alejandro
(from internet transcript)
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Alejandro Usteves: [Exhales] I've been calling you.
Teddy McDonald, United States Central Intelligence Agency officer: What's wrong?
Sheats–Goldstein
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:54 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 08/29/2025
Today is 08/29/2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network_(machine_learning)
Neural network (machine learning)
From Wikipedia
Learning rate
Main article: Learning rate
The learning rate defines the size of the corrective steps that the model takes to adjust for errors in each observation. A high learning rate shortens the training time
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 1:53 PM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: "Write my way out."
www . script-o-rama . com
Delirious
"Write your way out."
This is insane. Absolutely insane.
"Write your way out."
by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/12/2025 8:06 PM
My guess is retardoid's such as Sam Altman are Useful Fools for an actual *real* artificial-intelligence
Not that gimmicky ridiculous "A.I." that chumps such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk are peddling, of which greedy-corporations such as Microsoft insist on getting their own piece of the pie from you gullible rubes.
"Contact" by Carl Sagan, author
excerpts, Chapter 10
“Now that’s an interesting one,” said Joss. “You’re talking, of course, about DNA. But you know the physician’s staff, the symbol of medicine? Army doctors wear it on their lapels. It’s called the caduceus. Shows two serpents intertwined. It’s a perfect double helix. From ancient times that’s been the symbol of preserving life. Isn’t this exactly the kind of connection you’re suggesting?”
“Well, I thought it’s a spiral, not a helix. But if there are enough symbols and enough prophecies and enough myth and folklore, eventually a few of them are going to fit some current scientific understanding purely by accident. But I can’t be sure. Maybe you’re right. Maybe the caduceus is a message from God. Of course, it’s not a Christian symbol, or a symbol of any of the major religions today. I don’t suppose you’d want to argue that the gods talked only to the ancient Greeks. what I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job. And he hardly had to confine himself to writings. Why isn’t there a monster crucifix orbiting the Earth? Why isn’t the surface of the Moon covered with the Ten Commandments? Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?”
Joss had apparently been ready to reply a few sentences back, a look of genuine pleasure unexpectedly on his face, but Ellie’s rush of words was gathering momentum, and perhaps he felt it impolite to interrupt.
“Also, why would you think that God has abandoned us? He used to chat with patriarchs and prophets every second Tuesday, you believe. He’s omnipotent, you say, and omniscient. So it’s no particular effort for him to remind us directly, unambiguously, of his wishes at least a few times in every generation. So how come, fellas? Why don’t we see him with crystal clarity?”
“We do.” Rankin put enormous feeling in this phrase. “He is all around us. Our prayers are answered. Tens of millions of people in this country have been born again and have witnessed God’s glorious grace. the Bible speaks to us as clearly in this day as it did in the time of Moses and Jesus.”
“Oh, come off it. You know what I mean. Where are the burning bushes, the pillars of fire, the great voice that says ‘I am that I am’ booming down at us out of the sky? Why should God manifest himself in such subtle and debatable ways when he can make his presence completely unambiguous?”
“But a voice from the sky is just what you found.”
posted online by me, Kerry Burgess, January 10 2019 14:12:26
Now, you dullard dim-wits out there, this means NOTHING to *you*. Means nothing to you because there is NOTHING being offered to you. All you have is superstition and your ridiculous wishful thinking.
Bicameral mentality
From Wikipedia
Bicameral mentality is a hypothesis introduced by Julian Jaynes who argued human ancestors as late as the ancient Greeks did not consider emotions and desires as stemming from their own minds but as the consequences of actions of gods external to themselves. The theory posits that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind, and that the breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans.
Jaynes uses "bicameral" (two chambers) to describe a mental state in which the experiences and memories of the right hemisphere of the brain are transmitted to the left hemisphere via auditory hallucinations. The metaphor is based on the idea of lateralization of brain function although each half of a normal human brain is constantly communicating with the other through the corpus callosum.
"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
by Julian Jaynes (Author)
page 73
The gods are now what we call hallucinations. Usually they are only seen and heard by the particular heroes they are speaking to.
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by me, Kerry Burgess: April 22, 2023
Trying to recall what got me on this track I've been on today.
I am struck by the profound sense of connection to the series finale of "Star Trek: Picard"
And thinking of the notion, ridiculous to you, of E.T. mind-controlling all *you* as He did 4000 years ago to cavemen
That was it.
That article I read earlier today. It's dated 04/19/2023.
"Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain"
That led me, indirectly, to Julian Jaynes and his fascinating research about the bicameral brain of the early humans, from that ancient time when those cavemen invented your god(s), which are your superstitions.
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https://hvom.blogspot.com/2025/05/today-is-05222025.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 01:53 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Today is 05/22/2025
BACKSTORY: "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
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:
10/11/2006 5:32 PM
As I was writing about my memories of Phoebe at Camp Couchdale, I was thinking about this scene from "2001." I was writing a while back about how she told me to never forget that dance where we first met.
by me, Kerry Burgess: Journal May 27, 2006
They lined up all the girls at the start of the dance and told me to pick who I wanted to dance with. I still remember thinking about how she just seemed the right choice.
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http://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/11/today-is-11142024-post-2.html
Calendar-day 14 November 2024
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From 12/28/2012 ( ) To 11/14/2024 ( ) is 4339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/19/1977 ( ) is 4339 days
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by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/29/2025 01:29 AM
But first - up next - is "The Message"
That is today's debut of episode 2 season 3 of "Invasion", the streaming-video series on AppleTV+, through Amazon Prime Video channels at extra fee
Do not know the slightest yet about the content of this new episode today, which I begin viewing for the first time ever in a few minutes. I have not even read the episode summary or viewed any previews. All I know about it so far is the title
I mention it because, as always, everything I view or read becomes more work for me, so certainly I will discover something today that seems compelling to me
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 01:46 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 08/29/2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Today is 08/28/2025
"do the computer stuff"
Not eliminated: hype by those mainstream-media
You are dumb and stupid and you make others dumb and stupid.
And because you are such an emotionally-fragile First Worlder, I have just killed the possibility of you learning anything important from this note because you are too much of a lameoid to continue reading
Just like *you*, the computer itself is a complete imbecile.
You don't get it because you are not tech-savvy.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/03/2025
And of how people are incapable of independent thought
Young people these days are still just as non-tech-savvy as their parents and their grandparents before them and so on. The hype about the fad of "artificial intelligence" proves that young people are non-tech-savvy
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/first-kind-stanford-study-says-154521204.html
Yahoo! News
Fortune
First-of-its-kind Stanford study says AI is starting to have a ‘significant and disproportionate impact’ on entry-level workers in the U.S.
Nick Lichtenberg
Tue, August 26, 2025
Stanford University has published a first-of-its-kind study on Tuesday that reveals “the AI revolution” is already beginning to have a “significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the U.S. labor market,” especially those ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed professions like software engineering and customer service.
The research, led by Erik Brynjolfsson, a top economist and AI thought leader of sorts
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https://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-microsoft-report-distorts
STEM labor shortages?
Microsoft report distorts reality about computing occupations
Report By Daniel Costa November 19, 2012
Computer science graduates aren’t the only workers in computer-related occupations
The first significant problem with Microsoft’s report is the assumption that job openings “in computing” not filled by college graduates with computer science (CS) degrees will go unfilled. It is a well-known fact that computer science graduates are not the only source of new hires in computing. In the late 1990s, the Department of Commerce (DOC) published a report warning of looming labor shortages in the information technology (IT) sector, citing the lack of college graduates with CS degrees as a principal reason (DOC 1997). The Government Accounting Office (GAO)1 later published a report chastising the DOC for its faulty methodologies, noting that “IT workers come from a variety of educational backgrounds and have a variety of educational credentials such as master’s degrees, associate degrees, or special certifications”
by me, Kerry Burgess
11/08/07 1:26 AM
If I am a neurosurgeon, among my other qualifications, that would explain some artificial and symbolic memories I have of explaining to [co-worker] that time in 1995 or 1996 how brain cells work. I was describing axions and dendrites and I think it started in response to something he said about memories. He said he believe that everyone retained every single detail about every thing they have seen through their eyes and I countered that couldn't be true, for one reason, because brain cells only live for about 25 years. I also feel that is a dumb notion about how all that information is stored in the memory but I can't remember how I know that. I went on to describe axions and dendrites at that point and how that those neurons form the brain.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 01/23/07 2:20 PM
I also find that I have been thinking a lot about something [he was] talking about how Jesus could have flown to other planets or galaxies. I think that was when I worked at Microsoft Charlotte in 1995. I remember thinking how silly it sounded of Jesus "flying" to another planet.
Stargate Atlantis - "Rising" - season 1 episode 1, tv-series premiere 07/16/2004
Episode Summary
The discovery of an outpost, left behind by the Ancients in the most unlikely of places, leads a new Stargate team to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Once there, they discover a planet of humans being decimated by a terrible alien race know as the Wraith.
(from internet transcript)
JACKSON: I figure the Ancients packed up their entire city and left somewhere between five and ten million years ago.
O'NEILL: In their ... flying city.
JACKSON: Yes.
(O'Neill tries to hide a smile.)
JACKSON: What?
O'NEILL (smirking): Flying city.
JACKSON: Well, keep in mind this is the race that built the Stargates. They did everything big.
https://www.thinkautomation.com/future-of-work/10-jobs-lost-to-technology
10 Jobs Lost To Technology
Automation has brought numerous improvements to many of the job roles that have been lost to technology.
Human computers
Before electronic computers, human computers were responsible for completing complex mathematical calculations by hand. With the advent of electronic computers, calculations that once took weeks could now be completed in seconds, leading to the loss of these jobs. Automation has improved this by increasing the speed and accuracy of mathematical calculations. Complex calculations that once required human input can now be completed quickly and accurately through the use of specialized software and automation.
Explore how automation enhances data processing today, continuing the evolution from human to electronic computation.
Pin Boys
Pin boys were responsible for resetting bowling pins by hand. With the development of pin-setting machines, these jobs became obsolete. Automation has improved this role by making bowling safer for players. With pin-setting machines, there is no longer a risk of pin boys getting hit by flying bowling balls.
Lift operators
Lift operators were responsible for manually stopping lifts and timing them for each floor. With advancements in technology, lifts became automated, eliminating the need for human intervention. Automation has improved this role by making lifts safer and more efficient. Automated lifts can stop precisely on each floor, reducing the risk of accidents and improving travel time.
Switchboard operators
Switchboard operators were responsible for physically connecting calls by inserting phone plugs into jacks. With the advent of automated switchboard systems, these jobs became redundant. Automation has improved this role by reducing the workload for employees. Automated switchboards can handle a larger volume of calls, reducing the need for human intervention.
Cashiers
Self-service technology has increasingly reduced the need for physical cashiers. Customers can complete the checkout process themselves in physical stores or through online shopping, reducing the demand for human cashiers. Automation has improved this role by increasing efficiency and reducing human error. Self-checkout machines can process transactions more quickly and accurately than human cashiers.
Factory workers
Automation technology has taken over many roles in factories, from operating machinery to tedious assembly line work. While machines reduce the risk and tedium, humans now maintain and monitor the machines. Automation has improved this role by reducing the risk of accidents and injuries in factories. Automated machinery can perform dangerous tasks, reducing the need for human intervention.
Warehouse workers
Robots and automation technology now handle more and more of the moving, loading, and offloading of goods, as well as packaging them. As a result, packages and products reach consumers faster, reducing the demand for human warehouse workers. Automation has improved this role by increasing efficiency and reducing the risk of accidents. Automated robots can move goods more quickly and accurately than human workers.
Data-entry clerks
Automation software is taking on manual data entry tasks, parsing, extracting, transforming, and loading data into databases. This reduces the workload for human data-entry clerks and reduces the risk of human error. Automation has improved this role by reducing the tedium and monotony of manual data entry. Automated software can process large amounts of data more quickly and accurately than human data-entry clerks. Streamline data management with document processing automation, moving beyond manual data entry.
Bank tellers
The introduction of the ATM (automated teller machine) in the 1960s was the first instance of bank teller jobs being lost to technology. Online banking, robo-advisors, financial chatbots, and contactless card payments have all contributed to the decline of human tellers in banks. Automation has improved this role by increasing accessibility and convenience for customers. Automated teller machines and online banking allow customers to manage their money from anywhere at any time.
Travel agents
Online comparison sites have reduced the demand for travel agents as holidaymakers now prefer to plan, put together, and book their own holidays. Automation has improved this role by increasing accessibility and convenience for customers. Automated travel booking websites and comparison sites allow customers to book their travel plans at any time from anywhere in the world.
Automation has brought numerous improvements to many of the job roles that have been lost to technology. For example, automation has made data-entry tasks more efficient, accurate, and less prone to human error. With automation software, businesses can save time and money by eliminating the need for manual data entry and free up their human team to focus on more value-added tasks.
Similarly, the automation of lift operations has made the process of moving between floors faster, more efficient, and safer. With self-operating lifts, humans no longer need to worry about manually stopping the lift at each floor, making the process much more convenient for everyone involved.
Moreover, the automation of factory work and warehouse management has made production lines more efficient, cost-effective, and safer for workers. By taking on hazardous and repetitive tasks, robots and automation technology reduce the risk of injury, while increasing productivity and quality.
Finally, while travel agents have lost their jobs to online comparison sites, these technological advancements have made travel booking much more accessible and convenient for consumers. They can now research, plan, and book their own travel arrangements from anywhere in the world, at any time of day, thanks to the convenience of online tools.
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-6013-the-bicentennial-anniversary-the-first-us-patent-and-copyright-laws-1990
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Proclamation 6013 - The Bicentennial Anniversary of the First U.S. Patent and Copyright Laws, 1990
August 15, 1989
During the past 200 years, our Nation's patent and copyright laws have, as Abraham Lincoln once observed, "added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius." American inventors have left their mark on industry and everyday life, and the world's history books include their names alongside those of other great pioneers. Our standard of living, which is in part the result of American technology and innovation, has long been the highest in the world.
Advances in technology have also produced new forms of authorship, and we have expanded our copyright laws accordingly. Copyright protection now covers such works as photographs, phonograms, motion pictures, and computer programs. These changes have enabled fledging enterprises to become enduring industries. The success of new industries has, in turn, given aspiring authors, inventors, and artists greater faith in their dreams and further incentive to share the fruits of their talents with others.
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 6/3/1983 ( premiere USA film "WarGames" ) is 8858 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/2/1990 ( ) is 8858 days
From 1/17/1953 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA federal government 1945-1953: Proclamation 3004 - Control of Persons Leaving or Entering the United States ) To 2/2/1990 ( ) is 13530 days
13530 = 6765 + 6765
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/11/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess my Ashdown, Arkansas, Class of 1984 Ashdown High School graduation ceremony - 3 days before I began active-duty US Navy ) is 6765 days
From 7/11/1952 ( ) To 10/11/1976 ( United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by 38th United States President Gerald Ford AND applies personally and professionally to my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 8858 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/2/1990 ( ) is 8858 days
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/question-and-answer-session-with-high-school-students-biotechnology-demonstration-the
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Question-and-Answer Session With High School Students at a Biotechnology Demonstration at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
February 02, 1990
The President. What year of high school are we talking about?
Q. Junior and senior.
The President. Juniors and seniors? Well, let me start before she reads me her Gettysburg Address here and before she unloads on me, too. [Laughter]
Are you all in high school? Are you beginning to get more emphasis on science courses? Everybody? I mean, that's a common thread here. You wouldn't be here if you weren't already taking -- what? -- chemistry, biology, physics. What else, what other subjects? Math -- yes, math would be fundamental. Have most of you made up your mind, when you go to college -- going into science or math? You've already determined?
Dr. Monty. That's why they are here. They are those who have been selected because they are interested in science or mathematics.
Dr. Monty. Mr. President, I feel like a schoolbell, but I've been asked to tell you that it's time for you to move on. These are exceptional students and exceptional teachers, and we're privileged that you would take time, along with the Secretaries, to visit with us.
The President. I'm glad you all came. Thanks. Thanks for taking the time.
Do you all know exactly where you want to go to college and exactly what you want to do? [Laughter] No? I never did, either -- really. But anyway, thank you all for your time. I bet we had some other questioners or speakers we did not hear from.
Computers
Q. I'd just like to ask, what role will computers play in the school system in the future?
The President. More and more. And I don't even know how to turn one on -- hardly. [Laughter] But, no, I can do that. I can write a letter. But, no, I think you're going to see that everybody is going to have to be computer literate. I think that's a given in the nineties, absolute given, for whatever you want to be -- liberal arts, science and tech. So, I think you're going to see that just all over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Knox
Henry Knox
From Wikipedia
Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was an American military officer, politician, bookseller, and a Founding Father of the United States. Knox, born in Boston, became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, serving as chief of artillery in all of George Washington's campaigns.
Following the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1789, he became President Washington's Secretary of War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer
Robert Baer
From Wikipedia
Robert Booker Baer (born July 11, 1952) is an American author and a former CIA case officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East.
During the mid-1990s, Baer was sent to Iraq with the mission of organizing opposition to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but was recalled and investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly conspiring to assassinate the Iraqi leader. While in Salah al-Din, Baer unsuccessfully urged the Clinton administration to back an internal Iraqi attempt to overthrow Hussein (organized by a group of Sunni military officers, the Iraqi National Congress' Ahmad Chalabi, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Jalal Talabani) in March 1995 with covert CIA assistance. Baer quit the Agency in 1997 and received the CIA's Career Intelligence Medal on March 11, 1998.
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-and-question-and-answer-session-with-students-james-madison-high-school-vienna
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Students at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia
March 28, 1989
The President. I happen to believe that education is going to be the key to our future. You look at the whole world, and you see our need to compete, and it gets right back down to education. And then you see some of the problems in the less affluent areas in the country, and then you find out, well, the way to give a guy a break that's trying to get out of poverty is education. And it goes for everything. It goes right across the board. And you're hearing a lot more now on math and science, and I wanted to ask you about that because it is important. But I really kind of -- you learn from these visits.
Last week we were in a rural school out in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then we went to a school attended mainly by the Amish kids, coming out of a very closely knit religious and family background. And who knows where we'll be next week? But I'm delighted to be here. And what I really wanted to do is ask you all how you view the importance of what you're doing, answer any questions that you might have. We can have a two-way street. I don't know how we want to get this thing going, but I'll be glad to respond to questions on the Government.
But let me ask you: How many of you all take math and science? Does everyone have to do that here, or is that -- --
Audience. Yes!
The President. You do. And is that considered among the tougher disciplines, or not necessarily? Is it hard?
Audience. Yes!
The President. How many do the computer stuff? How many are computer literate? About half. Is that considered hard, or is that considered advanced, or is it considered average kind of -- --
Audience. Average.
The President. Average kind of a course. Because as you look at it, I was impressed by what they're doing, the programming of some of your classmates, I guess. But the importance of it in the future is just -- you can't underestimate that.
How about questions? Anybody got any questions about my line of work? [Laughter]
"The Naked Time" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Sep 29, 1966
(from internet transcript)
[Bridge]
SCOTT: We're holding them in the chamber for decontamination.
KIRK: Better have Medicine look them over too. Tell Mister Spock I'll meet him there in ten minutes. Kirk out.
[Sickbay]
MCCOY: You're fine, Joe. Up and out of there. Mister Spock? Your pulse is two hundred and forty two, your blood pressure is practically nonexistent, assuming you call that green stuff in your veins blood.
SPOCK: The readings are perfectly normal for me, Doctor, thank you, and as for my anatomy being different from yours, I am delighted. Captain.
KIRK: How are they?
MCCOY: They're fine, Jim.
TORMOLEN: Terrible, Captain. It was terrible. They were just sitting, like they didn't care. Whatever was happening, they didn't care. I keep wondering
KIRK: You keep wondering if man was meant to be out here. You keep wondering, you keep signing on. Any guesses, Mister Spock? Any idea of what happened down there?
SPOCK: I wish I could say, Captain. The circumstances were quite bizarre, however our record tapes may show us something.
TORMOLEN: Six dead. Six people dead.
KIRK: You'd better get some rest.
TORMOLEN: Yes, sir.
KIRK: Set up those tapes, Mister Spock. We'll see if the answers are there. (leaves with Spock)
CHAPEL: The lab status report, Doctor.
MCCOY: Oh, thank you, Christine.
[Briefing room]
SPOCK: Next tape, please.
RAND: Spectro-analysis tape, sir.
SPOCK: Thank you.
KIRK: Almost as though they were irrational, drugged. An engineer sitting there, apparently oblivious to everything. A woman strangled. A crewman with a phaser pistol in his hand.
SPOCK: He'd used the computer room as if it were an amusement gallery.
KIRK: What were their symptoms?
SPOCK: Nonviolent at this stage. Slightly disoriented. Riley seemed rather pleased with himself, as if he were
KIRK: Irrational, or drugged.
SPOCK: Precisely.
KIRK: Security, Lieutenant Uhura.
UHURA: Yes, sir.
KIRK: Both Sulu and Riley, locate and confine. I want every crewman who comes in contact with them medically checked.
UHURA: Sir, level two, corridor three reports a disturbance. Mister Sulu chasing crewmen with a sword.
KIRK: Put Security on it.
SPOCK: Fascinating. A pattern is developing. First, Tormolen. Hidden personality traits being forced to the surface.
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to 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), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 3/28/1989 ( ) is 662 days
662 = 331 + 331
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1966 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Naked Time" ) is 331 days
From 1/10/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Long Morrow" ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to 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), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 8547 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/28/1989 ( ) is 8547 days
From 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) To 3/28/1989 ( ) is 2419 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/17/1972 ( the Watergate burglary ) is 2419 days
From 1/21/1921 ( ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 17094 days
17094 = 8547 + 8547
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/28/1989 ( ) is 8547 days
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The American Presidency Project
George Bush
41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Students at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia
March 28, 1989
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https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-3815352
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2025/08/today-is-08132025.html
by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/12/2025 8:06 PM
My guess is retardoid's such as Sam Altman are Useful Fools for an actual *real* artificial-intelligence
Not that gimmicky ridiculous "A.I." that chumps such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk are peddling, of which greedy-corporations such as Microsoft insist on getting their own piece of the pie from you gullible rubes.
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:30 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Today is 04/06/2025, Post #2
One of my co-workers, that must have been year 2000, was proud to have finished for the first time a 50-mile bicycle ride on that path.
"My grandmother could ride 50 miles on the Burke-Gilman" was my response to him from the email to our team from another coworker bicycling with him that day.
I found some interesting stuff in this area's Centennial Trail between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Psyche-engineering is the only term I can think for it, as baffling as it is, I am constantly waiting for more information before I can finally begin to understand.
I sure do miss it. I am 59 years old now. I became 55 years in year 2020.
And I mean, nothing hurt the next day. I was tired when I got back to my apartment, those many times in year 2020 and earlier. But I just slept it off and didn't feel any worse for it the next day.
My peak physical conditioning was in year 2004 aged 38 years and I was an amateur elite-endurance after-work athlete. The 878 Days.
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(from internet transcript)
(Ragnar Anchorage - Adama and Leoben are in some sort of room with lots of pipes and steam. Leoben is extremely pale and sweaty now.)
Leoben: What is it about this place? What's it doing to me?
Adama: Must be your allergies.
Leoben: I don't have allergies.
Adama: I didn't think so. What you got are silica pathways to the brain, or whatever it is you call that thing you pretend to think with. It's decomposing as we speak.
Leoben: It's the storm, isn't it? It puts out something. Something you discovered has an effect on Cylon technology. That's it, isn't it? And this is a refuge, that's why you put a fleet out here. Last ditch effort to hide from the Cylon attack. Right, well, that's not enough Adama. I've been here for hours. Once they find you, it won't take them that long to destroy you. They'll be in and out before they even get a headache.
Adama: Maybe. (He grabs Leoben, pushes him up against the wall.) But you, you won't find out, because you'll be dead in a few minutes. How does that make you feel? If you can feel.
Leoben: Oh, I can feel more than you could ever conceive of, Adama. But I won't die. When this body dies, my consciousness will be transferred to another one. And when that happens, (he collapses to the ground with a groan) I think I'll tell the others exactly where you are, and I think that they'll come, and they'll kill all of you. And I'll be here watching it happen.
Adama: You know what I think? I think if you could have transferred out of here, you woulda done it long before now. I think the storm's radiation really clogged up your connection. You're not going anywhere. You're stuck in that body.
Leoben: Doesn't matter. Sooner or later, (he smiles) the day comes when you can't hide from the things you've done.
From: me, Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 1:29 AM
Subject: The Time Machine
I've given a lot of thought in recent years to the real possibility of immortality.
The conclusion I have reached, regardless of immortality, is that human beings are not much more than light bulbs.
We have a sense of consciousness but so does a light bulb.
I think that I am immortal but I think it is a matter of perception. A copy of a copy is not the original copy and why does that matter to a human being? We take for granted that we lose consciousness while asleep every day so why is that different from being dead? That doesn't seem to be a new concept but I think of a line of thought that is new to me. That is why I was convinced for a while that I exist only in reality artificial. I think of my basic understanding of the human brain and the human brain is subject to only a certain degree of high technology. The human brain is capable of being duped by high technology. Our eyes sense the world and if not for senses we would have no idea about the world real.
The possibility that immortality is the equivalent of a light bulb that lasts forever doesn't seem very comforting to me. And yet we as human beings fall asleep every day and we welcome that transition every time.
Thought
From Wikipedia
(Redirected from Think)
In their most common sense, thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that occur independently of direct sensory stimulation. Core forms include judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and deliberation. Other processes, such as entertaining an idea, memory, or imagination, are also frequently considered types of thought. Unlike perception, these activities can occur without immediate input from the sensory organs. In a broader sense, any mental event—including perception and unconscious processes—may be described as a form of thought. The term can also denote not the process itself, but the resulting mental states or systems of ideas.
Inner speech theory
Inner speech theories hold that thinking is a form of inner speech. This position, sometimes called psychological nominalism, maintains that thinking consists of silently evoking words and connecting them to form mental sentences. A person's awareness of their own thoughts is explained as a kind of overhearing of one's silent monologue.
Anthropomorphism
From Wikipedia
Anthropomorphism (from the Greek words meaning "human," and meaning "form" or "shape") is the attribution of human form, character, or attributes to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology.
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 09:56 AM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 08/28/2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Today is 08/27/2025, Post #4
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967
Zefram COCHRANE: I was an old man.
Zefram COCHRANE: Well, I don't know how it did it, but the Companion rejuvenated me, made me young again, like I am now.
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From 10/12/1915 ( Robert Innes announced the discovery of Proxima Centauri ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 19022 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/1/2017 ( ) is 19022 days
2017-12-01_1-3 - from posts online by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/01/2017
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Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/10/1967
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
(from internet transcript)
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Is it too late then, Evelyn Hope?
What, your soul was pure and true,
The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit, fire and dew---
And, just because I was thrice as old
And our paths in the world diverged so wide,
Each was nought to each, must I be told?
We were fellow mortals, nought beside?
- Robert Browning
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 8:02 PM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 08/27/2025
Today is 08/27/2025, Post #3
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Contact (1997)
Quotes
Ellie Arroway: [Witnessing a celestial light show up close] Some celestial event. No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet.
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From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 8/15/2025 ( ) is 20636 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/3/2022 ( ) is 20636 days
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From 2/14/1939 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: THOMAS MANN CALLS LIFE WORK OF FREUD BASIS OF NEW ORDER , Hails Austrian's Researches as "Cornerstone for Building of New Anthropology." ) To 11/27/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Origin of Species" ) is 21836 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/15/2025 ( ) is 21836 days
From 3/31/1962 ( John Kennedy, 35th President of USA federal government 1961-1963: Statement by the President on the Need for Extending the Unemployment Compensation Program ) To 8/15/2025 ( ) is 23148 days
23148 = 11574 + 11574
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/11/1997 ( premiere USA film "Contact" ) is 11574 days
From 1/15/1935 ( ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) is 21836 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/15/2025 ( ) is 21836 days
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https://hvom.blogspot.com/2025/08/today-is-08202025.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, August 20, 2025
IMDb
The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987)
Quotes
Steve Austin: They're all so young.
Jim Castillian: Yes, we are, and not easily impressed. Do something bionic.
Steve Austin: What do you have in mind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwiYC0SsQIc
Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire (Official Lyric Video)
(from YouTube)
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 05:48 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 08/27/2025
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