by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/25/2025 10:22 AM
I just said WHAT? !
This is completely serious, folks.
More than 20 years (and counting!) in almost perfect seclusion - isolated as any free civilian in a small apartment in the city can be - and this is really happening to me.
For years, I wrote of 'time-traveler-communications' and then I am a replicant and now, last year, I discovered Blake Crouch and his novel "Dark Matter", first watching it almost completely true to the novel on AppleTV+, now waiting for season 2.
If this is the first blog-post by me you have read that references Blake Crouch the novelist then you are galactically uninformed.
I like the concept of the "superposition box" more than any other theory I have cooked up.
Means that I am just a normal, regular, biological human-being. The "Dark Matter" box, I am thinking, trying to apply it to my real-world experience, is simply a narrative device. As with the 1994 "Stargate" it does not actually exist and it is something tangible to help my mind grasp certain concepts I would not have thought of on my own.
Why this stuff I have described?
Why the fantastic details that formed in my conscious-mind and AFTER-THE-FACT are consistent with the pattern in my original-work code-pattern.
Today's installment adds another to the pile.
I write something, think something, then go back and check for anything interesting to me in the code-pattern of my original-work.
Anyone can do this for themselves.
Especially a noted Professor of Computer Science at a prestigious university.
To no one in particular, if you have not read any of my blog-posts about the 1994 "Star Trek Generations" then you are the galactically uniformed, not repeating it in this blog-post.
I have made notes before too about this 1996 film I reference here and that appears completely at random to me today, after-the-fact. The actor starring as the titular character reminded me in facial appearance of the manager of my office in South Carolina when I worked as a civilian employed as computer-technician, with the title of Field Engineer, "engineer" being interpreted by me as from latin words about cleverness and to contrive, devise
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Star Trek Generations (1994)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: You are a Starfleet Officer. You have a duty...
KIRK: I don't need you to lecture me. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. Besides which, I think the galaxy owes me one. All right, ...I was like you once ...so completely blinded by duty and obligations that I couldn't see anything past this uniform. And in the end, what did it get me? An empty house. ...Not this time.
of my original-work code-pattern
Event Date variable: 06/25/2025
Search Date variable: 11/17/1994
results
From 11/17/1994 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek Generations" ) To 6/25/2025 ( ) is 11178 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/10/1996 ( ) is 11178 days
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.
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The Cable Guy
Quotes
Chip Douglas: The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115798/releaseinfo/
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The Cable Guy
Release info
United States June 10, 1996 (Hollywood, California, premiere)
Jim Carrey as Cable Guy
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The Cable Guy
Quotes
Chip Douglas: HI! Is there a problem with your service?
Steven Kovacs: Yeah, my cable is out.
Chip Douglas: [Presents a cut cord] Really? So you call me? Ha, funny how you call when you NEED something. Is that how you treat people?
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The Cable Guy
Quotes
Steven Kovacs: [Answers the phone] Hello?
Rick: Bingo! "My Three Sons"!
Steven Kovacs: Chip and Ernie Douglas.
Rick: I have a list here of every cable installer fired in the last four years. Check out some of these names: Murray Slaughter, George Jetson, Jean Luc Picard, there's even a guy who liked to be called "The Big Ragu".
Steven Kovacs: Carmine from "Laverne & Shirley".
Rick: That's so sad that you know that. Anyway, the cable company has just fired somebody six months ago named Darrin Stephens. You may remember his boss, Larry Tate, from a little show called "Bewitched".
Steven Kovacs: So... He doesn't even work for the cable company.
Rick: Yahtzee! They booted his ass for stalking customers. This guy is deeply troubled.
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The Cable Guy
Quotes
Chip Douglas: Call it one guy doing another guy a solid.
Steven Kovacs: That is so nice!
Chip Douglas: Well you're a nice guy! You'd be surprised how many customers treat me like snot, like I'm a goddamn plumber or somethin'.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 9/3/2006 7:54 PM
I can’t find a lot about the Burroughs terminal and ATM’s There is plenty of the B-series computers, but not a lot on what I remember working on.
The ATM was the RT-750 model. It featured the same Logic Control Unit for data processing and communication as the bank tellers used in the bank offices. As part of the RT-750, the LCU was referred to as the “BMT.” Bobbilynn Michelle Townsend, an employee of the bank was impressed that I knew that acronym stood for “Burroughs Modular Terminal.” She asked me about it one day at the bank because she noticed it was the same as her initials.
posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 7:09 PM Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Universal Financial Products
Enterprise Drive
Oakbrook, IL 60523
Employer: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
From 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 6/25/2025 ( ) is 6975 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1984 ( premiere USA film "2010: The Year We Make Contact" ) is 6975 days
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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Quotes
Dr. Vasili Orlov: What was that all about?
Chandra: I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble started.
Dr. Vasili Orlov: The 9000 series uses holographic memories, so chronological erasures would not work.
Chandra: I made a tapeworm.
Walter Curnow: You made a what?
Chandra: It's a program that's fed into a system that will hunt down and destroy any desired memories.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Wait... do you know why HAL did what he did?
Chandra: Yes. It wasn't his fault.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Whose fault was it?
Chandra: Yours.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Mine?
Chandra: Yours. In going through HAL's memory banks, I discovered his original orders. You wrote those orders. Discovery's mission to Jupiter was already in the advanced planning stages when the first small Monolith was found on the Moon, and sent its signal towards Jupiter. By direct presidential order, the existence of that Monolith was kept secret.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: So?
Chandra: So, as the function of the command crew - Bowman and Poole - was to get Discovery to its destination, it was decided that they should not be informed. The investigative team was trained separately, and placed in hibernation before the voyage began. Since HAL was capable of operating Discovery without human assistance, it was decided that he should be programmed to complete the mission autonomously in the event the crew was incapacitated or killed. He was given full knowledge of the true objective... and instructed not to reveal anything to Bowman or Poole. He was instructed to lie.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: What are you talking about? I didn't authorize anyone to tell HAL about the Monolith!
Chandra: Directive is NSC 342/23, top secret, January 30, 2001.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: NSC... National Security Council, the White House.
Chandra: I don't care who it is. The situation was in conflict with the basic purpose of HAL's design: The accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment. He became trapped. The technical term is an H. Moebius loop, which can happen in advanced computers with autonomous goal-seeking programs.
Walter Curnow: The goddamn White House.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: I don't believe it.
Chandra: HAL was told to lie... by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how, so he couldn't function. He became paranoid.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Those sons of bitches. I didn't know. I didn't know!
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 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."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21158452/
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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
From 6/6/1944 ( the landings at Normandy begin during World War II ) To 11/5/1994 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a United States Navy enlisted seafarer ) To 11/5/1994 ( ) is 3826 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/24/1976 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Serpico" ) is 3826 days
From 5/15/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5194 - Missing Children Day, 1984 ) To 11/5/1994 ( ) is 3826 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/24/1976 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Serpico" ) is 3826 days
From 10/13/1953 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Executive Order 10491 - Amendment of Executive Order No. 10450 of April 27, 1953, Relating to Security Requirements for Government Employment ) To 11/5/1994 ( ) is 14998 days
14998 = 7499 + 7499
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/15/1986 ( premiere US film "Top Gun" ) is 7499 days
From 2/25/1901 ( United States Steel Corporation was incorporated by J.P. Morgan ) To 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 21190 days
21190 = 10595 + 10595
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/5/1994 ( ) is 10595 days
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/reagan-alzheimers
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On November 5, 1994, former President Ronald Reagan published a letter to the American people announcing his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
My fellow Americans,
I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.
Upon learning this news, Nancy and I had to decide whether as private citizens we would keep this a private matter or whether we would make this news known in a public way.
In the past, Nancy suffered from breast cancer and I had cancer surgeries. We found through our open disclosures we were able to raise public awareness. We were happy that as a result many more people underwent testing. They were treated in early stages and able to return to normal, healthy lives.
So now we feel it is important to share it with you. In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clear understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.
At the moment, I feel just fine. I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done. I will continue to share life's journey with my beloved Nancy and my family. I plan to enjoy the great outdoors and stay in touch with my friends and supporters.
Unfortunately, as Alzheimer's disease progresses, the family often bears a heavy burden. I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience. When the time comes, I am confident that with your help she will face it with faith and courage.
In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Thank you, my friends.
Sincerely,
Ronald Reagan
PBS
FRONTLINE Show #1407T
Air Date: January 28, 1997
NARRATOR: Before the planes could attack, Task Force Normandy would fire the first shots of the war. Its Apache gunships had been training for months. Their mission was vital: to destroy at all costs two Iraqi radar sites that would otherwise give Baghdad an early warning of what was to come.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:40 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 06/25/2025
