Today is 04/27/2025

by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/27/2025 11:43 AM

See, if the past is an illusion then nothing is real

Except for this present moment, and now that's gone

Today CAUSED me to think of Novocain

Now I am wondering if I will see anything interesting today

Reality shifts to match

The entire content of this note is because today I suddenly, unexpectedly thought of Novocaine









Procaine

From Wikipedia

Procaine is a local anesthetic drug

It is most commonly used in dental procedures to numb the area around a tooth

Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain (without the "e" in the original German patent) or Novocaine (with the "e" in the US patent), in some regions, procaine is referred to generically as novocaine.









Star Trek Generations (1994)

(from internet transcript)

[Veridian III mountaintop]

PICARD: You don't need to do this, Soran. ...I'm sure we could find another way of getting you into this Nexus.

SORAN: I've spent eighty years looking for another way. Believe me, this is the only one.

(Soran presses some buttons on a keypad and a rocket reveals itself on the launcher)

PICARD: What you're about to do Soran, is no different from when the Borg destroyed your world. They killed millions too, ...including your wife ...and children.

SORAN: Nice try. ...You know, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came. And they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe. ...It's death. ...Afterwards I began to realise it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when. You will too, Captain. Aren't you beginning to feel time gaining on you? ...It's like a predator. It's stalking you. ...Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies, but in the end time is going to hunt you down, ...and make the kill.

PICARD: It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence.

SORAN: What if I told you I've found a new truth.

PICARD: The Nexus?

SORAN: Time has no meaning there. The predator has no teeth.









From 11/17/1994 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek Generations" ) To 4/27/2025 ( Today - Sunday ) is 11119 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/12/1996 ( premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"R & R" ) is 11119 days









Space: Above And Beyond

"R & R"

12 April 1996

Episode 15

Paul Wang: Got a bogey about 10K klicks out.

Shane Vansen: I.F.F. says... it's the Bacchus.

Paul Wang: Bacchus. It's like Vegas, New York City and Oz all rolled into one.

Vanessa Damphousse: Right now, I'd settle for a night in Buffalo.

Shane Vansen: Hold the chatter. We're still on patrol.



Shane Vansen: West! West! West, look alive!

Nathan West: Damn! Damn. I don't know how that happened.

Vanessa Damphousse: I do. Six back-to-back sorties at four hours a shot.

Cooper Hawkes: Man, it's getting weird. I'm seeing rabbits and squirrels and stuff hopping around my wings.

Shane Vansen: Keep your head screwed on.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:55 AM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 04/27/2025