by me, Kerry Burgess, 09/24/2026 10:25 PM
For you, this means nothing.
For me, I don't know if it is meant to deter me or to encourage me.
I mean, I read these books and watch these videos because I am not doing it to cause more work for me.
And yet, it seems this is forced upon me as another puzzle to solve.
For you, this means nothing.
For me, this is very, very real.
None of this would work out this way except that my brain is being forced - by unseen external force - to drive through slowly the content of the novel.
Days pass, time flows down the river through today and tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k
Dial Up Modem Sounds, from 300 bps to 56K
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/19/2006 4:40 PM excerpt from my private journals
a real problem for us
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/people/secnav/danzig/speeches/jasn0423.txt
Q: In the analogy between cyber warfare and the biological one, which is useful in some areas… I see there is a disconnect in our ability to trace to the source if you think about two examples – the Melissa Virus, when the source was traced along a relatively well-defined network of dissemination within days, relative to the example of the fecal matter, the E. coli infection, in the swimming pool and having not had a cooperative subject they may never have known it came from a kid with a diaper or something like that, and it took several weeks to identify that. It’s this trace-ability and, therefore, getting the deterrence seems to have a very big difference in cyber warfare versus biological dissemination.
A: That’s really a great question. We really know we're in trouble in cyber warfare when, following present trends, the source turns out to be the kid with the diaper in that area. [Laughter]
First of all, you're underscoring a very important characteristic of the NEW warfare that I didn't talk about, which is, the distance between the event and the determination of the source.
In my answer to the previous question I highlighted another, though I didn't remark on it as such, which is the delay in the awareness of what's happened. Let a bomb explode, and I know a bomb's exploded. Plant me a cyber virus and it may be years before it becomes apparent with an embedded virus. Give me a biological incident and I can have a lead-time like a day with anthrax or I can build myself longer or shorter lead times.
That then also amplifies the point you're making, which is, I can have more or less distance between the event and the finding of the individual who causes it. I'm not sure that in fact this is a difference between cyber war and biological warfare. I think there are a lot of cyber possibilities that can be extremely well disguised and very difficult to trace, just as there can be some that we can pretty rapidly get to. I think there can be biological incidents that are extremely well identifiable and some that are very well disguised.
On the cyber context just think about if I happen to be an Indian working in Banaras for Microsoft, I'm designing some software code and I write it in amidst several million lines of code--a real problem for us in DOD.
Having said this, my sense is that this also is an argument about the NEW thinking, because now what turns out is that your intelligence apparatus, so commonly thought of as a method of preempting attack, is also a critical part of your ability to manage consequences, to find the individual who did attack afterwards.
Suppose I'm experiencing illnesses and the like, or I get a threat from a terrorist group, knowing something about the capabilities of that group, and about what's abroad and what is being tested and so forth, gives me an enormous leg up on whether I should order Cipro[floxacin] in quantity and rush to the scene, or whether I should do some other things. So I want my intelligence to shape my consequence management and I need to recognize in all these cases that there's this junction very possibly between cause and effect and timing.
To 2/19/2006 ( ) From 3/30/1945 ( ) is 22241 days
To 9/24/2026 ( Today , Thursday ) From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) is 22241 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rose
Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Encounter at Farpoint"
TV-series season 1 episode 1, 09/28/1987 (IMDb: 09/26/1987)
From 9/28/1987 ( ) To 9/24/2026 ( ) is 14241 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/29/2004 ( ) is 14241 days
Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Encounter at Farpoint"
TV-series season 1 episode 1, 09/28/1987 (IMDb: 09/26/1987)
[Bridge]
Q: Captain, thy little centuries go by so rapidly. Perhaps thou will better understand this.
(A flash of light and he is wearing a 20th century US military uniform, with a cigarette in his hand)
Q: Actually, the issue at stake is patriotism. You must return to your world and put an end to the commies. All it takes is a few good men.
PICARD: What? That nonsense is centuries behind us.
Q: But you can't deny that you're still a dangerous, savage child race.
PICARD: Most certainly I deny it. I agree we still were when humans wore costumes like that, four hundred years ago.
Q: At which time you slaughtered millions in silly arguments about how to divide the resources of your little world. And four hundred years before that you were murdering each other in quarrels over tribal god-images. Since there are no indications that humans will ever change.
PICARD: But even when we wore costumes like that we'd already started to make rapid progress.
Q: Oh yeah? You want to review your rapid progress?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augment_%28Star_Trek%29
The Augments are a genetically enhanced group of humans in the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Enterprise.
In Enterprise, Augments are introduced in "Borderland", which also introduces the name "Augments", and are the focus of a three-episode story arc that continues in "Cold Station 12" and "The Augments".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0572179/
"Enterprise"
Borderland (2004)
Original Air Date: 29 October 2004 (Season 4, Episode 4)
From 9/29/2011 ( ) To 9/24/2026 ( ) is 5474 days
5474 = 2737 + 2737
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/1/1973 ( for me after 05/10/2006, described publicly only by me: graduation of my biological brother Thomas Reagan from the University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree for my brother Thomas Reagan the Class of 1969 medical-doctor graduate of Princeton University ) is 2737 days
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 4:18 AM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Star constellations
I wasn't going to write about a dream I just before waking up and getting out of bed but I was later in the shower and I started thinking about a possible explanation for the star pattern I saw in my dream and so I decided to write about that part and to try to write the least about the rest of the dream as I could, which I feel compelled to not write about for no real reason.
The compelling part about the dream is the pattern of stars I saw. The dream seems to have started with me and I was out in the woods somewhere and the light was dark and I had some kind of ability to radiate laser beams from my fingers or somehow create laser beams. As I think more about that as I write this now I thing again that I did not actually see the laser beams but I am vaguely aware that I could see the patterns I created on people with the laser beams. The notion of the laser beam is never really visually established in the dream but that is a notion that is strongly in my mind after waking up. The last thing I seemed to do with my laser beam power was that I saw myself form a pattern of stars on the ground to my left. The power seemed to stop working at that point. I also found my puzzled about how there were five stars in my creation when I expected only four. Since I was wearing those stars on the epaulet on my black jacket then I was thinking of how the United States Marine Corps has never had a five star general officer and I don't think the USMC should ever have a five star general officer.
What I puzzled about was how the pattern of those stars did not seem consistent with how an officer of the United States military would wear a five-star pattern on his uniform. I seemed to be wearing the winter working dress uniform of the United States Navy. What was unusual was how one of the stars was set away from the other four stars.
When I was in the shower and was thinking about that visualization in my mind of those stars that I had created on the ground and then was wearing my shoulder, on the black jacket that is the type United States Navy sailors used to refer to as the "Eisenhower" jacket, I wondered if that pattern was supposed to represent the star constellation we call the Big Dipper.
Ah, yes. That has got to be it. Just now as I wrote that word "Big Dipper" I remember dialog that happened soon later that is consistent with that notion.
So going back to what I was thinking as I decided to write this note, I thought about how my visualization of the star pattern did not match the Big Dipper very well. But then I started to wonder if I was seeing the pattern of the Big Dipper while I was standing on a planet or moon that circled a star that was very distant from our planet Earth.
I keep thinking of reasons why that all could be just a normal dream. But maybe it is not.
After my laser beam power stopped working, I saw some of the people I had been forming laser beam patterns on and they were all getting into cars and leaving in a long procession of army-type vehicles. They all seemed to be from World War 2. I noted the color pattern of one of the vehicles but I cannot think of any comment to make about it.
Then I seemed to be a sentry on a hill in downtown Seattle Washington. I was aware that I was totally alone in my role. I was also aware I was wearing a United States military uniform but I cannot visualize any details about it from the dream. I was there for a long time. Some kind of conflict started among a few local people that had walked up and I was trying to stay out of it. The next part I remember from the dream is that I was sitting in a room and there were people around me and one was the old woman whose dialog is consistent with the notion that I was seeing the star pattern of the Big Dipper constellation. Then a woman stood up and she was also wearing the winter dress uniform of the United States Navy and I saw the postal clerk rating symbol on her uniform. Then I saw a person walk into the room I was in from the room next door with the half-window walls and where I had been aware that a conference was going on that all of us had been waiting for to get finished and that person who walked out of that room was a person that I understood in the dream to by my brother Thomas Reagan and he seemed to be about eight years old. He was also wearing the winter working dress uniform of the United States Navy and I noticed just after I saw the woman's rating symbol that he was also wearing the postal clerk rating symbol. But he had the E-1 rate white symbol patch on one sleeve and the E-2 rate white stripe patch on the other sleeve, which is definitely not a uniform standard of the United States Navy. After thinking about that after waking up I decided that detail is supposed to represent the E-1 and E-2 aircraft of the United States Navy.
As he walked up to me, I asked him where he had been because I have been standing on that hill everyday. There was some unspoken dialog about me having food during that time.
There was some other stuff that happened in the dream but I decided to end this note with his response to me about how he had heard I had picked up more stars. I distinctly remember his words to me at that point. He asked me "Is it worth it?"
At that point, I took off two stars from the jacket epaulet on my shoulder, which seemed to be the type used for award stars on United States military medals and ribbons, and I was aware that left me with three stars on my shoulder.
So as I was wondering after getting out of the shower is that I could have just had a normal dream. But I could have just dreamed that final star symbol I need.
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
Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2006 2:25 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 4/6/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I hope that was her in my dream, although the woman in the dream seemed to be someone unfamilar though. But I have noticed that happening with other people I know. They are represented, somehow, by a different person, but I think of them as someone specific. I feel like that is part of the manipulation. I have noticed something similar in real dreams, but I don't think it is the same here. I think they are disquising themselves in my dream for some reason.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:17 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 09/24/2026
