Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy New Year!!! Hope yours was great. Mine sucked.




Jan 1, 1983: The ARPANET officially switches over to using Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP) standard, the Internet Protocol, marking the birth of the modern-day Internet. The engineers called it the TCP Transition.





January 1, 1951: Chicago broadcaster Paul Harvey begins his national radio program "Paul Harvey News and Comment" from WENR-AM for the ABC network. At the peak of his career, he reached more than 24 million listeners on more than 1,200 radio stations & charged $30,000 per speech.

"The Rest of the Story" was introduced in 1976, this segment was a series where Harvey would tell stories with a twist at the end, revealing famous people or events in an unexpected light. It became immensely popular, leading to books and even a television adaptation.

"Paul Harvey News and Comment" held the title for the longest running network radio show of its kind, with Harvey continuing to broadcast until his death in 2009.





Hello darkness my old friend came to visit me again at the end of 2024 and still with me now in 2025. Damn this cold flu!! I'm sick & tired of being sick & tired!

USA #1 on this day in 1966: Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence




January 1, 1972: America's Gatekeeper, a federal agency named Defense Investigative Service was created. In 1999, the agency changed its name to the Defense Security Service. In July 2019, DSS was reorganized as DCSA or Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, located on Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia. It is the largest counterintelligence and security agency in the federal government and has 167 field offices across the United States.

The National Access Elsewhere Security Oversight Center or NAESOC (Yea, it's a thing) provides consistent security oversight and security management for select companies in the National Industrial Security Program (NISP) that do not possess classified information onsite..."access elsewhere". DCSA administers the NISP on behalf of the Department of Defense and 34 other federal agencies. There are approximately 12,500 contractor facilities that are cleared for access to classified information under DCSA’s security oversight responsibilities.

These nispy-wispy characters and their acronyms. Learn more: DCSA Special Access Programs (SAP) Office is located in National Operations, Industrial Security Directorate.

The first issue of the 2023 DCSA Gatekeeper magazine (PDF) featuring a cover story on expanded Field Operations and Support.


Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency


Jan 1, 1962: the U.S. Navy SEALs were established. The SEALs were an extension of the Underwater Demolition Teams created in 1943 after submerged obstacles had caused heavy casualties during the amphibious assault on Tarawa. Now, even sea lion pups want to be SEALs.




January 1, 1973: The UK officially became a member of the European Economic Community (EEC). The Daily Mail was very enthusiastic about Britain’s entry at the time.





Jan 1, 2000: As part of a bold new reality TV social experiment called Castaway 2000, where 36 British men, women, and children are placed on Taransay, a remote uninhabited Scottish island, about 2 miles off the west coast of Harris, Outer Hebrides, where they will remain for one year. The castaways were to build a sustainable self-sufficient community from scratch (apart from some buildings which were already there, and some which had been placed there for them). They were to grow their own vegetables, kill their own animals and become a community for the year.

Candidates for the program were selected and trained by survival expert John "Lofty" Wiseman (retired British special forces unit, SAS) to represent a cross-section of British society.

Off to a rough start there was an outbreak of flu early in the year and soon afterwards they were offered antibiotics because of a nearby outbreak of meningitis. Some were transferred off island to a nearby warm hotel. Due to a diverse number of participants from many varying ways of life, there were many arguments on the island. One notable clash was between a family of devout Seventh-day Adventists and a gay man. the oldest man, the gay man, and a black family had enough and quit early. The gay man later sued the BBC & the TV station and won.



How Castaway made my life hell

The groundbreaking social experiment that created TV's first reality stars (March 2024)

Here's episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLsceo8pwow

And here's Charlie Brooker's Daily Mail Island (parody clip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA


You come at the king, you best not miss.


2 Oregon men searching for Sasquatch found dead

That whole area in the winter time is extremely treacherous even if you're well prepared.


Well, the New Year rolls in with bloodshed & a Bang.

A Tesla Cybertruck blew-up in flames in front of Trump Tower Vegas, questions swirling, and speculation running wild.

New Orleans is reeling from an attack by a U.S. Army veteran, Shamsud Din Jabbar, with IEDs and reports of an ISIS flag in his truck. New Orleans Terror truck crossed Eagle Pass, TX border on Nov 16th.



Official FBI Statement

Moment Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump hotel

Fox News vid: https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1874610639823335781

Just a couple of crazy desert dudes with too many fireworks.


Helluva a cool shot of a stealth bomber flying over the Rose Bowl parade this morning...




Ships on vigor of the waves are skimming
Barren summits to the verdant plains
Each horizon is a new beginning
Rise and reign

Far from the fjords and the ice cold currents
Ravens soar over new frontiers
Songs and sagas of a fate determined
Shields and spears

Vows of favour or the thrill of plunder
Pull together for the clan and kin
Clank of hammers and the crash of thunder
Pound within

Oh-ho-oh
The echoes of eternity
Oh-ho-oh
Valhalla calling me

Into 2025 we go...