"Bat*21" (1988)
US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton: Birddog, Bat two one, over. Birddog, Bat two one, how do you read, over. Birddog, this is Bat two one, come in. I'm on the sixth hole, Birddog, do you copy? Birddog, this is Bat two one.
From 5/14/1929 ( ) To 10/21/1988 ( premiere USA film "Bat*21" ) is 21710 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/11/2025 ( Today - Friday ) is 21710 days
From 2/7/1922 ( ) To 4/11/2025 ( ) is 37684 days
37684 = 18842 + 18842
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/2017 ( ) is 18842 days
From 5/8/2024 ( debut "Dark Matter" AppleTV+ streaming-video series ) To 4/11/2025 ( ) is 338 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/6/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Enemy Within" ) is 338 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19290514-01.2.19&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19220207-01.2.25&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Nora
The Book of Nora
From Wikipedia
"The Book of Nora" is the series finale of the HBO drama television series The Leftovers.
It aired in the United States on June 4, 2017.
She enters the machine's event chamber, where she is slowly submerged in a metallic fluid. Nora is heard screaming out as the liquid reaches her head.
The episode cuts to a farmhouse in rural Australia years later, where an older Nora
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: 02/25/10 3:33 PM
but other times I think he was organic and then that leads me to thinking about how I wonder what is the real difference which then leads me to think about how that devalues life itself, or at least, those of use who have been duplicated. So the clone of me the clone shows up and he gives me instructions that he types out on a non-internet and non-wireless equipped computer and from those instructions I know where to find the teleportation device that will transport me into the virtual world that belongs to me, which I have been thinking for a while, contains no mirrors and there is nothing in there where I can see my reflection. So I go to that transportation device and I read through the instructions for activating it and a new aspect of the process, which I now think of from "The Terminator" is that I have to take off all my clothes before I am transported and then I am transported to my virtual world. The reason for the clothes is simply that, for me, there are factors constructed into the virtual world that creates a minor sense of hardship and indeed when I transport I am in the same location where the device is stored but there are no clothes there, or any people for that matter, and I have to walk outside in the freezing rain to find shelter. I am transported to the same location I remember but many of the buildings and structures that I would see at that location are gone in the virtual world. The road is still there but there are power lines or gas stations or many other structures that are useless in that virtual world. There are automobiles but only in new car lots and they don't require gasoline.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me - H.V.O.M at 7:55 AM Monday, October 11, 2010
I was thinking extensively about that again last night.
The existence is okay for a while but then it becomes tormenting enough to look for a way back to the real world. There is always something important missing that eventually becomes unbearable.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: July 15, 2017 11:11 pm
The Leftovers - The Book of Nora - television series episode Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Jun 04, 2017 on HBO (Comcast On Demand 15 July 2017)
Answers are elusive in the series finale.
Nora Durst: I knew there was a chance it would kill me, but I made my peace with that. And I said goodbye to my brother and I climbed right in.
Kevin Garvey: And then you changed your mind.
Nora Durst: No. I didn't change my mind. I went through. I was in the parking lot, naked curled up like a baby. It was the same parking lot I'd just been in, except there were no trucks no people, no nothing. It was cold, so I started to walk. I walked by empty houses abandoned buildings. And I found a store, so I went in and there were clothes there-- clothes hanging on racks-- so I got dressed and I got back to walking. I walked long enough to convince myself that I was the only thing alive in that place. And then night came, and I saw lights, so I went to them. It was a house, and there was a man and a women there. They were kind and they told me the man told me that seven years earlier, he was in a supermarket and every single person disappeared except for him. And the women told me that she lost her husband, her three daughters, and all eight of her grandchildren. And that's when I understood. Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us.
Nora Durst: They were happy. And I understood that here in this place, they were the lucky ones. In a world full of orphans, they still had each other. And I was a ghost. I was a ghost who had no place there. And that, Kevin, is when I changed my mind. The physicists who sent me through told me the first person to use the machine was the guy who invented it. His name was Dr. Van Eeghen. I'm pretty sure they were making fun of me, but they said when I went over that I should look him up, so I did. That took a long time, too. But I found him and I asked him to make another machine because he already knew how. And he asked me if I had come all that way, why in God's name did I wanna go back? And I told him it's because I didn't belong there. So, he built it. And I came back through. I came back here. Did I think about you? Did I wanna call you? Did I wanna be with you, Kevin? Of course I did. But so much time had passed. It was too late. And I knew that if I told you what happened that you would never believe me.
Kevin Garvey: I believe you.
by me, Kerry Burgess: 21 June 2015
She went before I did but I was already there.
I thought about that extensively. I think I wrote here before about how I tried to find again what I thought I wrote in my journal about it but could not find anything.
I had been there for months or longer. One day, I was passing through New York and I had the urge to drive through New York City. I was thinking that my mind was laboring with the notion I would be leaving there on that day going back to the real world and so I had taken out of my luggage my dress white US Navy uniform I was wearing that day months and months ago I found myself there in my new world. I had parked somewhere in the massive urban city and was walking along when I saw her there on the sidewalk, thinking she was a mannequin. I thought extensively of how only certain new vessels remained and I operated one US Navy ship to cross the Atlantic. We parted at a doorway after stating I would return to Charleston and I walked through a doorway before I even thought to say goodbye turning to find myself alone again.
The Leftovers (2014) s03e08
"The Book of Nora"
Nora Durst: And that's when I understood. Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us. So, I went and did what I came there to do. I went to find my kids. Planes don't really fly over there. They have enough resources, just not enough pilots. So, I found a boat that would take me. No boats go directly from Australia to New York, so it took me a long time to get there.
"The Book of Nora" - The Leftovers
Nora Durst: The physicists who sent me through told me the first person to use the machine was the guy who invented it. His name was Dr. Van Eeghen.
"The Book of Nora" - The Leftovers
Nora Durst: I'm pretty sure they were making fun of me, but they said when I went over that I should look him up, so I did. That took a long time, too. But I found him and I asked him to make another
From 10/19/1954 ( premiere USA TV series "The Halls of Ivy" ) To 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) is 18842 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/2017 ( ) is 18842 days
From 2/25/2010 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal ) To 6/4/2017 ( ) is 2656 days
2656 = 1328 + 1328
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/22/1969 ( Judy Garland dead from drug overdose ) is 1328 days
From 11/4/1986 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Date Completed - US Navy Fire Control Technician Class "A", Service School Command, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, - 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 6/4/2017 ( ) is 11170 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/2/1996 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Space: Above And Beyond"::series finale "...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best" ) is 11170 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 6/4/2017 ( ) is 10182 days
10182 = 5091 + 5091
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/11/1979 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"UFO Australia" ) is 5091 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5338044/
IMDb
The Leftovers
The Book of Nora
Episode aired Jun 4, 2017
S3 E8
HBO's synopsis for this episode is: "Nothing is answered. Everything is answered. And then it ends."
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 Pirou '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."
Star Trek - "The Enemy Within" - television series Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired Oct 06, 1966
(from internet transcript)
MCCOY: He'll be regaining consciousness soon, and not knowing what his physical state is, I don't think I dare give him a tranquilizer of any kind. I think we'd better bind him.
KIRK: Yes. yes, all right. What's the matter with me?
SPOCK: Judging from my observations, Captain, you're rapidly losing the power of decision.
MCCOY: You have a point, Spock?
SPOCK: Yes, always, Doctor. We have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man. His negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence, and his positive side, which Earth people express as compassion, love, tenderness.
MCCOY: It's the Captain's guts you're analysing. Are you of that, Spock?
SPOCK: Yes, and what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see indications that it's his negative side which makes him strong, that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength. Your negative side removed from you, the power of command begins to elude you.
KIRK: What is your point, Mister Spock?
SPOCK: If your power of command continues to weaken, you'll soon be unable to function as Captain. You must be prepared for that.
MCCOY: You have your intellect, Jim. You can fight with that!
KIRK: For how long?
by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/15/2025 03:56 AM
Nobody cares about sleeping-dreams of other people
And I certainly do not care about *you* and your pathetic and pointless and meaningless life
Some of you think that Jesus Christ cares about *you* and that just proves my point: your pathetic and pointless and meaningless life
You, and every other religion dim-wit, think you have an Imaginary Friend "up there" in the clouds and It thinks you are the most special monkey in the entire Universe, of which you are so tragically ignorant.
The point of this note is an update to another blog-post by me
Those notes by me were caused by a sleeping-dream I had
Today, I am re-examining the topic
I did not start with this calendar-day as the subject of this note
I started because of the serial "Dark Matter", continuing on that topic I have worked on extensively the past few days
My process begins with the first result. That first results causes me to look for other topics, based on the thoughts in my mind caused by that first result:
Search Date variable: 05/08/2024
Search Date variable: 11/04/2024
Result, Event Date variable: 11/04/2024 (sleeping-dream by me, from my notes, fully referenced previously)
From 5/4/1906 ( ) To 5/8/2024 ( ) is 43104 days
43104 = 21552 + 21552
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/4/2024 ( ) is 21552 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19060504-01.2.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 31, Number 51, 4 May 1906
DR. PATTON'S ADDRESS
Before the Philadelphian Society Last Evening on "Our Calling in Life.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21158452/
IMDb
Dark Matter
S1.E1
Are You Happy in Your Life?
Episode aired May 8, 2024
Physics professor and family man Jason Dessen is abducted from everything he loves.
Joel Edgerton as Jason Dessen
Jennifer Connelly as Daniela Vargas Dessen
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/04/2024 04:27 AM
Because it reminds me of a very vivid sleeping-dream from over a decade before and that I have described here a few times, I sit down here at this desk and think of visions I saw just before waking a few minutes ago
Event Date variable of my original-work code-pattern becomes 11/04/2024
Target Date variable is not present in my conscious mind
Today is Monday and there is nothing in particular I am aware of at this moment. Yesterday was "From" s3e7 and I have not yet watched the streaming-video and I don't know anything about the content. That's the only new content I am tracking presently and that could possibly cause me to think of any Target Date variables, of which I have none
In my sleeping-dream, I am driving a vehicle on a highway in a place I never recognized
A later visualization suggests the vehicle was Cadillac brand, white in exterior color. A type of vehicle I never owned nor cared to own
Suddenly, I notice the highway ahead is covered with water
I cannot stop in time and as I remain in the floating vehicle, my vehicle plows into the water and the inertia drives me forward
Floating along, the power-steering remains operational and the front-wheels serve as a sort of double rudder on the front of the vehicle and I travel above the flooded roadway and navigate a curve in the roadway
To the left side, terrain rises sharply and is thickly covered in trees
Around that bend, the inertia drives my car up onto a small island, only a few feet wide and across
The power-steering fails then and I stop on that very small dune of dirt and step out of the car and look around
I noticed the dashboard clock still is active and the time is a few minutes after 11:30 AM
Ahead of me, the highway is deeply flooded and there is a wide channel of water to the right-side.
I seem to be on a very small slip of land between that highway and a flooded railway, parallel to the highway on my right-hand side, and the point ahead of me seems to be an intersection with the highway and a smaller road that crosses the railroad tracks
That point seems traversable by me on foot and that's my objective
Because beyond that channel of water covering the railroad tracks, I can see dry land
There are many signs of motion over there.
I see several vehicles moving around
And I know that's my destination because somewhere over there, out of my sight in my present location, is my home
I know during the sleeping-dream that I own a house over there somewhere
So I am going to wade across that channel of water.
The water is clear enough I can see the bottom
The weather seems warm enough that I am clad only in athletic shorts. I know the water is probably going to be cold so that's a concern in my mind
That's where I'm going. The sleeping-dream ends and I drag myself out of bed to sit here at this desk for another day
first watched by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/14/2024
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/11/today-is-11142024-post-2.html
Calendar-day 14 November 2024
Bat*21 (1988)
Quotes
Col. George Walker: You know anything about golf, Clark?
Capt. Bartholomew Clark: No, sir. Golf wasn't big in my neighborhood.
Bat*21 (1988)
US Air Force colonel George Walker: We've pulled our share of pilots out of there but never a fifty three year old lieutenant colonel.
US Air Force captain Bartholomew "Bird-Dog" Clark: A fifty three year old lieutenant colonel?
Walker: That's right. The navigator on that E.B.
Clark: They just gave me crew codes and no names and ranks.
Walker: Well, I am told that Hambleton is one of our top people. He's an electronics countermeasures expert. I am told that the communists will have a dossier on him that thick. So in the morning when we get our birds back we're going to go in and get him. The Seventh Air Force does not want Charlie getting their hands on him.
Clark: We'll get him tomorrow then, sir.
Walker: In the meantime, I want you to go back out there tonight.
From 12/9/1992 ( premiere USA film "A Few Good Men" & official State of South Carolina documents: "the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto Kerry Wayne Burgess" the house I owned at Country Club Estates in South Carolina {a particular place I no longer care about so that's not what this is about} ) To 4/11/2025 ( ) is 11811 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/5/1998 ( Bill Clinton, {puppet-in-chief} 42nd President of USA: Remarks Announcing the Selection of Lieutenant Colonel Eileen M. Collins, USAF, as the First Woman Space Mission Commander ) is 11811 days
Bat*21 (1988)
US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton: Bird Dog, this is Bat twenty one. I can't go any further. Good vantage from this position.
US Air Force Captain Bartholomew "Bird-Dog" Clark: Copy, Bat two one.
Hambleton: What about the others? Anybody else make it out?
Clark: Uh, none reported. We're still looking. Just stay calm.
Hambleton: I'll try.
Clark: Don't worry, Bat two one. We'll get you out. But it's not going to happen today. All choppers busy evac'ing fire base at Quang Tri. The company of grunts overrun by Charlie. Jolly Greens will pick you up in the morning.
Hambleton: Say again your last transmission.
Clark: Repeat. Jolly Greens will pick you up in the morning. There will be no pickup today. Copy, Bat twenty one?
Hambleton: I copy, Bird Dog.
Clark: Okay, listen, Bat two one. I'm running low on juice. Have to return to base.
Hambleton: Bird Dog, thanks for your help.
Clark: That's what I'm here for.
Hambleton: Bird Dog, are you going to be back?
Clark: That's the plan. Bird Dog signing off. Keep your head down. See you later.
Hambleton: Bat twenty one, out.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 09:56 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 04/11/2025
