excerpts
https://x.com/random_walker/status/1936066290843578538
https://x.com/random_walker/status/1936071076158882212
Arvind Narayanan @random_walker 7:38 AM June 20, 2025
Violates Kindle ToS, so no, sorry. I was jittery to even post about this.
IMDb
Weird Science (1985)
Quotes
Gary Wallace: That's not a bad idea.
Wyatt: What?
Gary Wallace: Making a girl. Actually making a girl. Like Frankenstein... except cuter.
Wyatt: You're serious?
Gary Wallace: Yes.
[Gary grabs Wyatt by the collar and pulls him towards him]
Gary Wallace: Look me in the eye. Do I look serious?
Wyatt: Gary Wallace, that's-that's gross! That's sick! I am not digging up dead girls!
Gary Wallace: No, I'm not talking about digging up a dead girl, Wyatt. I'm talking about your system, idiot, your computer!
Weird Science (1985)
(from internet transcript)
Should we give her
a brain?
Yeah. We'll play chess
with her.
Chess? Just give her
a brain.
That's all we can do
with my stuff.
Did you get a free
toaster with this, too?
The problem is,
this is a lame idea.
Your computer
is a wimp.
We need
a lot more power.
What do you suggest?
We're in.
We're in trouble, Gary.
This is highly illegal.
We got to fill this thing with data.
We'll make her
as real as possible.
I want her
to live, breathe.
I want her
to aerobicize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LR6NPpFxw4
[tv broadcast March 6, 1983]
Grace Hopper - She taught computers to talk
60 Minutes
Stargate SG-1 - "The Fifth Race" - tv series Season 2 Episode 15 - 01/22/1999
(from internet transcript)
O'NEILL
Locas.
[Daniel looks the word up.]
DANIEL
(Muttering)
Locas, locas, locas. Locatia. Location. You need a new location. You need a new location?
CARTER
Where do ya wanna go?
[O'Neill doesn't seem to know.]
CARTER
Okay, good luck you guys, I've got to get back to the computer.
[She turns then indicates the blackboard with the math equations on it.]
CARTER
Sir, I really wish you could explain all this.
[O'Neill hands her the notepad he'd been writing on.]
CARTER
'Ten equals eight'…
(Mutters)
Ten equals eight, ten equals eight…
[She picks up chalk and adds to O'Neill's work.]
CARTER
Ten equals eight. Sir, this is base eight math!
[He just looks at her like it means nothing to him. Daniel looks at O'Neill, very concerned.]
excerpts, read also:
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2025/05/today-is-05202025.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:10 AM May 20, 2025
BACKSTORY: Evelyn and Hope
IMDb
Sarge Goes to College (1947)
Release Info
USA 13 May 1947
Stargate SG-1
Season 2 Episode 15
The Fifth Race
This episode marks the first direct reference to the Ancients, the builders of the Stargates, on the series.
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:10 AM May 20, 2025]
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 27 – Casualties
USS PHARRIS
The Sea Sprite dropped a pattern of sonobuoys. Minutes passed.
"I got a weak signal on number six and a medium on number four," the sonobuoy petty officer said. Morris watched the plot. That made the contact less than three miles off.
"Drop some pingers," he ordered. Behind him the ship's weapons officer ordered the arming of the ASROC and torpedo launchers. Three miles off, the helicopter turned and swept across the target area, dropping three CASS buoys this time, which sent out active, nondirectional pings.
"Contact, a strong contact on buoy nine. Classify as possible submarine"
"I got him, bearing zero-one-five-this one's a sub, classify as positive submarine contact," said the towed-array man. "He just increased power. Some cavitation sounds. Single-screw submarine, maybe a Victor-class, bearing changing rapidly left-to-right."
The active sonar still didn't have him despite continuous maximum power pings down the correct line of bearing. The submarine was definitely under the layer.
Morris wanted to maneuver but decided against it. A radical turn would cause his towed-array sonar to curve, rendering it useless for several minutes. Then he would have to depend on sonobuoys alone, and Morris trusted his towed sonar more than the buoys.
"Bearing to contact is now zero-one-five and steady . . . noise level is down somewhat." The operator pointed at his screen. Morris was surprised. The contact bearing had been changing rapidly and was now steadied down?
The helicopter made yet another pass. A new sonobuoy registered the contact, but the MAD gear didn't confirm the presence of a submarine and the contact was fading. The noise level continued to drop. Morris watched the relative position of the contact pass aft. What the hell was this character doing?
"Periscope, starboard bow!" the talker reported.
"Wrong place, sir . . .unless we're looking at a noisemaker," the operator said.
The ASW officer had the active sonar change bearing and the results were immediate.
"Contact bearing three-four-five, range fifteen hundred yards!" A bright pip glowed on the sonar scope.
"All ahead flank!" Morris yelled. Somehow the submarine had evaded the towed sonar, then popped up atop the layer and run up his periscope That could only mean one thing. "Right full rudder."
"Hydrophone effects-torpedoes inbound, bearing three-five-one!"
Instantly the weapons officer ordered the launch of an antisubmarine torpedo down the same bearing in the hope that it would disturb the attacking submarine. If the Russian's torpedoes were wire-guided, he'd have to cut the wires free to maneuver the sub clear of the American return shot.
Morris raced up the ladder to the bridge. Somehow the submarine had broken contact and maneuvered into firing position. The frigate changed course and speed in an attempt to ruin the submarine's fire-control solution.
"I see one!" the XO said, pointing over the bow. The Soviet torpedo left a visible white trail on the surface. Morris noted it, something he had not expected. The frigate turned rapidly.
"Bridge, I show two torpedoes, bearing constant three-five-zero and decreasing range," the tactical action officer said rapidly. "Both are pinging at us. The Nixie is operating."
Morris lifted a phone. "Report the situation to the escort commander."
"Done, skipper. Two more helos are heading this way."
Pharris was now doing twenty knots and accelerating, turning her stem to the torpedoes. Her helicopter was now aft of the beam, frantically making runs with its magnetic anomaly detector, trying to locate the Soviet sub.
Tomorrowland (2015)
about 5 min
Young Frank Walker: Anything's possible.
Nix: I don't know what that means.
Frank: If I was walking down the street and I saw some kid with a jet-pack fly over me, I'd believe anything's possible. I'd be inspired. Doesn't that make the world a better place?
Nix: Well, I suppose it would. If it worked. Unfortunately, it does not.
From 12/19/1903 ( ) To 5/9/2015 ( premiere USA film "Tomorrowland" ) is 40684 days
40684 = 20342 + 20342
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/2021 ( ) is 20342 days
excerpts, by me, Kerry Burgess, posted online by me: Astro_Spook @Kerry_W_Burgess 09:40 AM July 13, 2021
1a2/
Testing this hypothesis involves a product I never purchase
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted online by me: Astro_Spook @Kerry_W_Burgess 07:08 AM July 13, 2021
Just at the moment - just now - as I started work on my next, new content, extended post of triviality, pausing to make this note, Bob-FM Spokane: U2 "Still haven't found what I'm looking for"
From 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) to 1/16/1998 ( premiere USA film "Montana" ) is 4180 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)
Identification (literature)
From Wikipedia
Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967
(from internet transcript)
(From the doorway, the three see a swirly thing which then disappears. Cochrane comes in with a tray of drinks.)
KIRK: What was that?
Zefram COCHRANE: Well, sometimes the light plays tricks on you. You'd be surprised what I've imagined I've seen around here sometimes.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/08/2023
How it all started for me.
https://youtube.com/embed/PRNkf99_3L0
YouTube
Helicopter Operations on a Navy Frigate (FFG-60)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rodney_M._Davis
USS Rodney M. Davis
From Wikipedia
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60) was an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate of the United States Navy
by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/20/205
Somewhere I wrote about the early months of 1985.
We left the shipyards for our first journey to our permanent homeport in Charleston, South Carolina
The North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras was not only very stormy but also very, very cold outside.
We had to stand there not only as the helicopter landed on that tiny flight-deck, but also remain beside the helicopter wheels until instructed to remove the chains and chock binding it to the flight deck
I was out there on that flight-deck countless times during my assignment to USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy, and that was many times I was out there.
excerpts,
From: Kerry
To: House
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007
Then I was thinking about a time in 1985.
There were two teams of two men, including me, that worked on the helo deck during landing operations
The cable. That blasted cable with the funky connector. I was the first one on the Taylor that had to run out underneath the hovering Seahawk and perform the first exercise of the RAST system.
We didn't have the other end of the cable from the helo that our cable connected to so on my first test, I only had the advice of my Chief Boatswains Mate. Standing there under that helo, I nailed it perfectly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Taylor_(FFG-50)
USS Taylor (FFG-50)
From Wikipedia
USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was a ship of the United States Navy
excerpts
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/lanham_act
Cornell Law School
Lanham Act
A trademark that is categorized as descriptive is only protectable as a trademark if it has acquired a secondary meaning in the minds of the consuming public.
Secondary meaning is also necessary to establish trademark protection for a personal name or a geographic term. Generic terms are never eligible for trademark protection because they refer to a general class of products rather than indicating a unique source. A mark may be generic ab initio and refused registration, or it may become generic over time through use.
False advertising
From Wikipedia
False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, and also distributing or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally, or recklessly, to promote the sale of property, goods or services. A false advertisement can be classified as deceptive if the advertiser deliberately misleads the consumer, rather than making an unintentional mistake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/content/lanham-act.html
Lanham (Trademark) Act
The Lanham Act (also known as the Trademark Act of 1946) is the federal statute that governs trademarks, service marks, and unfair competition. It was passed by Congress on July 5, 1946, and signed into law by President Harry Truman. The Act took effect on July 5, 1947.
A trademark is a word, phrase, logo, graphic symbol, or other device that identifies the source of a product or service and distinguishes it from competitors. Some examples of trademarks are Ford (cars and trucks), Betty Crocker (food products), and Microsoft (software). A service mark is the same as a trademark, except that it promotes a service, such as FedEx (delivery services).
The Lanham Act sets out procedures for federally registering trademarks, states when owners of trademarks may be entitled to federal judicial protection against infringement, and establishes other guidelines and remedies for trademark owners.
The Lanham Act
The Lanham Act, also known as the Trademark Act of 1946, is codified at 15 U.S.C. §1051 et seq.
You can find the Lanham Act, as amended today, at Cornell University Law Schools Legal Information Institute.
From 7/5/1946 ( the Lanham Trademark Act signed into law of the United States of America by Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA 1945-1953 ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 13188 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/11/2001 ( ) is 13188 days
From 10/1/1946 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: OUT OF CONFUSION, CLARITY ) To 12/11/2001 ( ) is 20160 days
20160 = 10080 + 10080
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 11/26/1997 ( premiere USA film "Alien: Resurrection" ) To 12/11/2001 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 2/26/1984 ( premiere USA TV movie "Lace" ) To 12/11/2001 ( ) is 6498 days
6498 = 3249 + 3249
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/25/1974 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: One small step for Princeton ) is 3249 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian20011211-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19461001-01.2.13&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
IMDb
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Quotes
Purvis: [shouting] What's in-fucking-side me?
Dr. Wren: A parasite! A foreign element.
Ripley: There's a monster in your chest. These guys hijacked your ship, and they sold your cryo tube to this... human. And he put an alien inside of you. It's a really nasty one. And in a few hours it's gonna burst through your ribcage, and you're gonna die. Any questions?
Purvis: Who are you?
Ripley: [smiles] I'm the monster's mother.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:32 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 06/21/2025
