by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/18/2025 6:19 PM
Now for another completely random choice by me
Wonder what sort of non-obvious nonsense I shall discover if I look closer
Making this note only because of my random choice yesterday, described by me yesterday in a blog-post here on this blog by me
"28 Days Later". Fairly certain I saw that when it was new in the theatres. Have seen it more times since then. Forever since I last viewed it, before settling on it today
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The Matrix (1999)
Quotes
Neo: The Matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
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 1/27/1937 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: DOCTOR BOHR OF DENMARK WILL LECTURE NEXT WEEK ) To 9/2/1964 ( ) is 10080 days
From 4/29/1942 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: PRINCETON'S AIR RAID ) To 9/2/1964 ( ) is 8162 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, {1987-1990} USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) is 8162 days
From 9/2/1964 ( ) To 10/7/1997 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"Coma" ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 ) is 12088 days
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000206/bio/
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Keanu Reeves
Biography
Born September 2, 1964 Beirut, Lebanon
Birth name Keanu Charles Reeves
Credits:
The Matrix as Neo
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:44 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
I think I remembered it because I had another accident on Dec. 23, 2001, when I was biking around Lake Washington. At the 30 mile point of that 60 mile trip, I hit a patch of ice and went down hard and fast. One minute I was riding along, the next minute I was looking at my feet as I went sliding across the road. Damn that hurt. I dislocated my shoulder because my elbow hit first or right about the same time as my knee. I could barely raise my arm if at all for weeks after that. It was pretty uncomfortable riding the remaining 30 miles back home. And the whole way there and for a time afterwards, I could almost hear something, it was unusal, the way you can feel like there is something on your tongue as that saying goes, but with this, I could almost hear a "thud" sound for a while after, the sound of me hitting the ground.
Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic
From Wikipedia
The Seattle to Portland, or STP, is an annual one- or two-day supported bicycle ride from Seattle, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The STP "is considered one of the 10 biggest recreational bicycle rides in the country, drawing riders from across the nation and from other nations", and has been operating since 1979. The ride is organized by the Cascade Bicycle Club. It is approximately 206 miles (332 km) in length.
From 5/7/2003 ( premiere USA film "The Matrix Reloaded" ) To 10/18/2025 ( Today , Saturday ) is 8200 days
8200 = 4100 + 4100
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/23/1977 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Roots" ) is 4100 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/18/2025 6:59 PM
You know, this sort of thing would really mess up a person.
Conflicted again, continue the video, go to sleep. Not sleepy.
Sidetracked searching for STP 2002 results. Couldn't find anything. One website gave me a calendar-day: 07/13/2002
Now I remember: I finished that course in years 2000 and 2001. Right?
Right. Must have been. Because I finished the 200-mile bicycle ride in about 15 hours, decided I was ready for the Ironman triathlon, having made in my 30s already several bicycle excursions in less than one day at 100-miles and greater.
Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:31 AM Monday, March 05, 2012
I remember the summer of 2001 I had made the bicycle trip by myself from Seattle to Portland by myself in one day, the well-known regionally STP bicycle course of 200 miles. In the year 2000, I covered that bicycle course with two women I worked with at Microsoft and one woman and I covered about seventy five per cent of that distance in one day. I don't recall the precise distance. The next year I covered the course by myself and I covered the full course of 200 miles in less than one day. The following year was Ironman Utah.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/18/2025 7:37 PM
"He's completely humourless"
There's a familiar face, it seems, with an illustration I am thinking of to support looking more at it, if I work on the premiere date of "28 Days Later", which is the same as the tv-series premiere of "Dead Like Me"
From my other computer, found a website that has the date for STP 2001.
There are two dates for it but for me, it is only the first that is personally relevant. Both dates have compelling associations
The year 2000 I participated with a couple friends and it was their idea. Second year, in 2001, I did it all by myself, at my own choice.
https://www.teamfischbach.com/event.php?event=bike_STP_2001&year=2001&standard=STANDARD&who=kelly
From 2/25/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA federal government 1953-1961: Remarks and Address at Dinner of the National Conference on the Foreign Aspects of National Security ) To 10/30/1993 ( ) is 13031 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/7/2001 ( ) is 13031 days
From 4/17/1959 ( premiere USA film "Imitation of Life" ) To 12/20/1994 ( ) is 13031 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/7/2001 ( ) is 13031 days
From 7/7/2001 ( ) To 2/6/2004 ( IN THE FUTURE from 07/07/2001: as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 944 days
944 = 472 + 472
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/17/1967 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: EX-PRESIDENT'S VIEW -- NSA – CIA Tie Was Flexible ) is 472 days
Los Angeles Times
Space Shuttle Astronauts Pedal Around World
October 30, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. The space shuttle Columbia's astronauts got an orbital workout Friday as they pedaled at full speed around the world to see how their bodies were holding up after nearly two weeks in space.
One by one, the crew members worked their way from 30% of maximum exercise capacity on the shuttle's stationary cycle to 60% and then to 100%. They breathed into a tube connected to a gas analyzer as they cycled; their heart rates and blood pressures also were monitored.
"This may not feel so good to do, but it's very important in understanding the absolute capacity of our cardiovascular system to deliver oxygen to the tissues of the body, particularly the muscles," astronaut-physician David Wolf said before hopping on the cycle.
Muscles weaken in weightlessness, as do bones. Wolf and the three other scientist-astronauts aboard ingested and injected one another with calcium Friday to see how it is absorbed by the body in space.
Researchers involved in Columbia's 14-day medical mission want to know whether bone loss in weightlessness is caused by increased bone destruction, decreased bone formation, or both.
The dissections today of some of the 48 rats aboard the shuttle--a space first--should help answer that question.
The remaining animals will be killed for dissection after the flight.
The flight, the longest ever for a shuttle, is due to end Monday with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Medical Research in Space
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia have been performing experiments in medical disciplines ranging from neuroscience to cardiovascular physiology during their two-week mission. Some of the notable projects include:
Weightlessness: A study of the effects of weightlessness on the cardiovascular system. The experiment requires astronauts to spend time in a vacuum sack that forces blood and other body fluids from their chests into their legs. Researchers want to see if the treatment keeps them from becoming dizzy once they are back on Earth, a common complaint of returning astronauts.
Muscle mass: A determination of how protein metabolism is changed in space--an effort to determine why muscle mass decreases during long space flights. Each crew member is weighed daily and a log is kept of all fluids and total nitrogen intake, among other things.
Body fluids: An examination of how space flight affects body fluids and disturbs body electrolytes. Zero gravity causes a fluid shift toward the head, which causes a perceived increase in the body's blood volume. Measurements of blood, urine and saliva are being taken.
Calcium loss: Tests to determine how space flight causes a loss in the body's calcium level. Researchers believe that significant changes in hormones may be associated with calcium loss.
Sensory organs: A probe into how the body handles the loss of information, such as the loss of the sense of gravity, when it has redundant paths of such information. Space sickness, which affects many astronauts, is believed to be related to the brain's confusion when it receives conflicting information from the inner ear and from other sensory organs.
Animal testing: The Columbia carried 48 rats into space as part of a study of life processes in zero gravity. Astronauts will use a laboratory guillotine like this to behead and dissect six of the rats in space so that their systems will not readjust to gravity. The other 42 rats will be kept alive for examination on Earth. Among other things, NASA wants to see how zero gravity affects calcium levels and hormones in the rats' internal systems.
From 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 7/8/2001 ( ) is 2820 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/1973 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the 1969 medical-doctor graduate of Princeton University and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England, passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) is 2820 days
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28 Days Later (2002)
Quotes
[Selena tells Jim how the infected began to spread]
Selena: It started as rioting. And right from the beginning you knew this was different, because it was happening in small villages, market towns, and then, it wasn't on the TV any more. It was in the street outside. It was coming through your windows. It was a virus, an infection. You didn't need a doctor to tell you that. It was the blood. There was something in the blood. By the time they tried to evacuate the cities, it was already too late. The infection was everywhere. The Army blockades were overrun and that's when the exodus started. The day before the TV and radio stopped broadcasting there were reports of infection in Paris and New York. We didn't hear anything more after that.
From 3/23/1945 ( ) To 6/27/2003 ( ) is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 7/9/1987 ( as me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, enlisted US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 2nd Class (FC2)(E-5), following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia, I arrived at my second US Navy fleet assignment the USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, for permanent duty until 1990 - 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) ) To 6/27/2003 ( ) is 5832 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/21/1981 ( IMDb: released in USA "Stargate" video game ) is 5832 days
From 6/17/1918 ( ) To 10/3/1993 ( the Battle of Mogadishu Somalia begins ) is 27502 days
27502 = 13751 + 13751
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/27/2003 ( ) is 13751 days
From 12/18/1926 ( ) To 6/27/2003 ( ) is 27950 days
27950 = 13975 + 13975
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/6/2004 ( IN THE FUTURE from 06/27/2003: as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 13975 days
From 11/22/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 6/27/2003 ( ) is 2408 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/6/1972 ( United States Patent 3,668,658 - International Business Machines Corporation - the magnetic record disk cover ) is 2408 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/releaseinfo/
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28 Days Later
Release info
United States June 27, 2003
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556085/
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Dead Like Me
S1.E1
Pilot
Episode aired Jun 27, 2003
Georgia, 18, a college dropout in Seattle, gets a filing job. She gets killed by a falling Mir toilet seat on her first workday. Two grim reapers have her join their rank.
Ellen Muth as Georgia 'George' Lass
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/subject-guides/pdf/world-war-one.pdf
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19450323-01.2.13&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon
Photon
From Wikipedia
A photon (from Ancient Greek 'light') is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force. Photons are massless, so they always move at the speed of light in vacuum, 299792458 m/s (or about 186,282 mi/s).
Arthur Compton used photon in 1928, referring to G.N. Lewis, who coined the term in a letter to Nature on 18 December 1926.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:07 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 10/18/2025
