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Friday, August 14, 2026

Today is 08/14/2026





by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/14/2026 3:28 PM

Continuing.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook

Tim Cook

From Wikipedia

He was appointed chief executive of Apple on August 24, 2011, after Jobs resigned.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook

Tim Cook

From Wikipedia

in March 2015 he said he planned to donate his fortune to charity.









IMDb

A Few Good Men (1992)

Quotes

Lt. cmdr. Galloway: Tell your friend not to get cute down there, the Marines at Gitmo are fanatical.

Lt. Weinberg: Fanatical about what?

Galloway: About being Marines.










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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39182946/

IMDb

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Radio

Episode aired Aug 14, 2026










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From 12/9/1992 ( premiere USA film "A Few Good Men" AND official State of South Carolina documents: "the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto Kerry Wayne Burgess" that house I owned at Country Club Estates in South Carolina - that specific house I no longer care about ) To 8/24/2011 ( ) is 6832 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/17/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: Date Enrolled - Basic Electricity and Electronics School, Service School Command, Naval Training Center, Orlando, Florida AND Ronald Reagan, 40th president of USA federal government 1981-1989: Remarks on Signing a National Minimum Drinking Age Bill ) is 6832 days









From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 8/24/2011 ( ) is 5392 days

5392 = 2696 + 2696

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/21/1973 ( Richard Nixon, 37th president of USA federal government 1969-1974: Statement About Summer Job and Recreation Programs for Youth ) is 2696 days









From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 11/11/1998 ( ) is 16731 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/24/2011 ( ) is 16731 days









From 4/5/1978 ( premiere USA film "Pretty Baby" ) To 8/24/2011 ( ) is 12194 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/1999 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Sesame Street"::"Rosita Takes Pictures with Her Camera" ) is 12194 days









https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2011/08/24Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-Apple/

Apple

PRESS RELEASE

August 24, 2011

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board

CUPERTINO, California—August 24, 2011—Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Baby_(1978_film)

Pretty Baby (1978 film)

From Wikipedia

Release date April 5, 1978 (U.S.)

Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film

it caused significant public outcry and media controversy due to its depiction of child sexual exploitation, as well as the nude and semi-nude scenes featuring Shields, who was 11 years old at the time of filming, and whose character was a child being exploited for prostitution.









Chicago Tribune

Intel Exec Stands By Testimony

November 11, 1998

His notes of a November 1995 meeting quote a Microsoft official as saying the company planned to "kill HTML by extending it."









From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to 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), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 8/24/2011 ( ) is 8846 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1990 ( premiere USA TV series "The Ben Stiller Show" ) is 8846 days









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)

Severance (TV series)

From Wikipedia

Severance is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Dan Erickson, and executive produced and primarily directed by Ben Stiller.



The series follows employees at Lumon Industries, a sinister biotechnology corporation, that have undergone "severance"—a procedure that splits a person's memories between work and their personal life. This creates two separate identities for employees: the "innie", who has no knowledge of the outside world, and the "outie", who lives their life outside without any knowledge of their job.

Erickson and Stiller first developed Severance in 2015, with the series being greenlit by Apple TV in 2019









Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

(from internet transcript)

[Montana settlement bar]

(rock and roll music is blaring out of a jukebox)

RIKER: Deanna! ...Deanna! Deanna!

(Riker rips out the power lead silencing the music)

TROI: No! No, don't turn it off that...

COCHRANE: Who is this jerk? ...And who told him he could turn off my music?

TROI: Will Riker. ...Zefram Cochrane.

COCHRANE: Is he a friend of yours?

TROI: Yes.

COCHRANE: Husband?

TROI: No.

COCHRANE: Good! ...Now this, Deena...

TROI: Deanna.

COCHRANE: This ...is the good stuff.

RIKER: Doctor Cochrane...

COCHRANE: To the Phoenix. ...May she rest in peace.

(Cochrane and Troi knock back their slugs with some reaction)

COCHRANE: Okay, that wasn't so good.

TROI: Will, I think we have to tell him the truth.

RIKER: If we tell the truth the timeline...

TROI: Timeline! This is no time to argue about time. We don't have the time! ...What was I saying?









by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/14/2026 4:22 PM

Summer of 1985. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

My ship was newly constructed and commissioned in December 1984. We left the shipyards in Maine and arrived for the first time in our homeport Charleston, South Carolina. We were at sea a lot in year 1985 and in summer 1985 we were in shakedown for that newest warship and that happened in Gitmo.

I was still working for the Boatswain's on the ship.

Cheating was farthest from my mind on anything.

"You're still ugly". That was the response from a kid years earlier during my school organized football practice. Moments earlier I was criticizing him for cheating when the coach was not looking at us as he called out repetitions during weight-lifting training. Only reason I liked being on the football team was the weight-lifting. It was always well organized and I enjoyed seeing my improvements over time.

Gitmo was a great liberty-port. We were at sea for shakedown over a period of time and sometimes we returned to the US Navy base there on that big beautiful bay from the ocean. They did not sell cold beer at the base store. So drinking warm and old Budweiser in cans was not very fun, too impatient to wait for it to chill in the ice-chest.

One day, several of us on liberty took off from the ship and towards the marina on the base there for US Navy where they rented power-boats. On a previous liberty excursion we rented on the Boston Whaler type of power boat. This next time over there on libery, along with the small power boats, someone wanted to rent two pontoon boats and they wanted me to rent one of those from the marina. The difference was it required an examination and there was a study guide for it. Don't worry, one guy said, we will tell you the answers. The shop operator let me sit outside on a bench and complete the exam.

I was still 19 years old at the time. Place was a lot of fun for liberty. Plenty of hard work at sea.

This was well over a year before 11/4/1986

I had never in my life inhaled marijuana or any sort of narcotics for recreation.










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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:53 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 08/14/2026