Today is 08/06/2026

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Quotes

Eugene Kittridge: So. Why don't we quietly get out of here onto a plane. I can understand you're very upset.

"Cosplay Ethan Hunt": Kittridge, you've never seen me very upset.









From 5/20/1996 ( premiere USA film "Mission: Impossible" ) To 8/1/2026 ( ) is 11030 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/14/1996 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Two Bad Neighbors" ) is 11030 days









"Two Bad Neighbors" [ The Simpsons ]

Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Jan-96

(from internet transcript)

"Here's a little something we learned in CIA," George H.W. Bush grins.









The American Presidency Project

RONALD REAGAN

40th President of the United States: 1981 - 1989

Remarks at the National Defense University on Signing the Department of Veterans Affairs Act

October 25, 1988

It's an arbitrary ruling elite telling them how much they can charge for their crops. It's a knock on the door at midnight because someone in the family casually criticized the regime. It's the defacement or destruction of the local church or mosque or synagogue. It's the intrusion of an armed and ruthless party into the realms of life that every human being knows in his or her soul should be inviolable.

And so, these simple farmers have taken up arms, an act of almost inconceivable courage. For to be a freedom fighter-whether in Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua, Cambodia, or elsewhere is to face large forces equipped with some of the most terrifying weapons any army has ever faced and to fight against all odds.

We Americans know something about that kind of courage. More than 200 years ago, Americans came out from "every Middlesex village and farm," and from villages and farms all over the 13 Colonies, to face the greatest imperial army in the world-and to defeat it. We learned then that the God-given love of freedom that fills every human heart with strength is the greatest force the world has ever known. No empire, no tyrant, no ruling party can resist it forever. To stand on the side of human freedom is truly to stand on the side of history.

And yet we also found during our own Revolution that when a free people are young and struggling, they need friends. We could not have won our independence without help. Today others cannot win their freedom without help from us. And thanks in part to our help, they are winning. Today in Afghanistan, Angola, and Cambodia, we're seeing moves toward peace and freedom that would have been unthinkable even a few short months ago. In each country, the Soviets and their allies have said they will withdraw, and the reason is clear. In each country, we helped freedom fighters obtain the supplies that, together with their own courage, evened the odds. We were strong and steady friends, and we see once again in the news from those countries that American strength is indeed the greatest force for peace on the face of this Earth.









Book Typography: The Crystal Goblet by Beatrice Warde

November 10, 2011

There are a thousand mannerisms in typography that are as impudent and arbitrary as putting port in tumblers of red or green glass! When a goblet has a base that looks too small for security, it does not matter how cleverly it is weighted; you feel nervous lest it should tip over. There are ways of setting lines of type which may work well enough, and yet keep the reader subconsciously worried by the fear of “doubling” lines, reading three words as one, and so forth.









https://patents.justia.com/patent/4255811

Justia Patents

Key controlled block cipher cryptographic system

Mar 25, 1975 - IBM

The sequence of operations occurring at an arbitrary round i will now be described where: 1.ltoreq.i.ltoreq.n where N is the number of rounds to be carried out.

At beginning of round i, we have

y.sub.i-1 =[y.sub.(i-1).sup.128, . . . , y.sub.(i-1).sup.2, y.sub.(i-1).sup.1 ]

from the output of adder 10. 128-bits are gated from key processor 50 to the exclusive-or circuit 20 having the form:

b.sub.i =[b.sub.(i).sup.128 . . . b.sub.(i).sup.1 ]

and at 20 an exclusive-or operation takes place









From 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 1/14/1996 is 390 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/27/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Bonanza"::"A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town" ) is 390 days









The Outer Limits

"Resurrection"

Season 2 Episode 2

Aired Jan 14, 1996

Episode Summary

Life on planet Earth has been wiped out by biological warfare, leaving behind only androids. Two of those androids, Martin and Alicia, have a secret project: Cain, a human being grown from the DNA of a single human hair. Martin and Alicia must keep Cain's existence hidden from the military androids, led by Moloch, a power-mad machine who is determined to stamp out any trace of the human race before it rises again.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:25 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 08/06/2026