How Small is small.

 

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,367 

Lurking: 

 

 

Ezra Stiles around the year 1680 was considered the smartest guy in New England. He was minister of the 2nd Congregational church here in Newport and went onto become President of Yale. He said, the world would be much better off if the Bible was printed in Chinese. I think he was on to something. 

 

Every once in a while, I need a dose of John Adams “Grand Pianola”. It is a complex piece of music that somehow comes together in a pleasing, energetic way. 

 

The wealthy guy brought fully grown bushes and trees for his estate fencing and landscaping. He found the extra money in his hedge fund. 

 

Exactness was not so exact after all. The furlong was concluded to be what a good ox team could plow without resting, Somehow, they figured that an ox team could plow 8 furlongs in a day without turning (Hard to turn an Ox Team) An acre was how much land an ox team could plow in a day. They called the 8 furlongs a mile. Just think they could have called 8 furlongs an Edward or a Katherine. A foot was the measurement of a man's foot, about twelve inches. Think if they used a woman's foot. The mile would be shorter, and my health walk measuring watch wouldn’t yell at me as much. Think about what affects history.  

 

I wonder if Garman knows about ox teams.  

 

The Question: 

Who was Blanche S. Scott? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Stocks Rebounding After Morning Plunge.  

--8 Repubs Making Teir Pitch for Speaker. 

-- Israel Lets Small Aid Convoy Enter Gaza Then Strikes; Hamas Releases Two Israeli Hostages. 

--Mary Lou Retton Revcovering; “Thank you Jesus”, Says Family. 

--Auto Union Launches New Surprise Attack this Time Hitting Stelantis Plant.  

 

Evolution is all about survival. 

 

Mosad Husein Yousef son of the founder of Hamas says Hamas is far more dangerous than ISIS and is incapable of negotiating. He has renounced them and is warning that logic doesn’t matter in the pursuit of their objectives.  

 

A tree walks into a bar. The bartender says, “What’ll you have?” The tree says, “Anything but a lager.” 

 

If I knew anything about music, I think I could make Schuman's 4th symphony a little better. It has a lot of good going for it, but.  

 

One of my great all-time friends died this weekend. It was tough seeing him lying there in the dark hours before he went. You just hope he heard a little of what I said. I hope he laughed. He was a wonderful human being and liked the Tids.  

 

To be honest with you, not that honesty isn’t the only policy with this mess of opinions... but I think that Robert Bork would have been a great addition to the Supreme Court. He would have brought it to life.  

 

There are 200-400 billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy, our galaxy. 40 billion of them are earth like Planets but with varying characteristics. There are 200 billion more galaxies beyond ours. Feeling small yet. This is to point out that a billion s a lot. If you stacked one-billion-dollar bills atop each other it would reach a little over 65 7 miles into space or 512 rested plowing ox teams. 

 

A billion minutes ago there was excitement in 109AD Rome with the completion after a decade of the great Emperor Trajan -- “Aqua Traiana”. It takes abot ua decade to fix the potholes on the Newport Bridge.  

 

When I listen to post game College Football results shows, the news isn’t about whether or not they won or lost but only if they “Covered”. God help us. 

 

My town used to look like a wonderful old City before the 1960s when Government redevelopment programs sucked places into bad decisions and worse designs. 

 

In all of our lives there is so much pure value that doesn’t have greenbacks attached to it. And in our new society that wonderful attribute of living seems to go right over the heads of many seeking something they already have and don’t know it.  

 

I read story this Saturday about a developer who was turned down by the community. His lawyers said, “(Developer) almost dropped dead. He has been working incredibly hard”. Probably he was working hard because he was trying to push through something the public repeatedly told him they never wanted in the first place. I never feel bad for developers. 

 

Will be back tomorrow with 1959! 

 

I always had way more to do than available time when I was a kid. And I don’t look back and say, I wish I had a video game.” 

 

The Answer: 

Blanche in 1910 in Fort Wayne Indiana became the first woman to make a solo Flight. Sometimes the achievements of the unknown are forgotten, but not in the Tids.  

 

I remember playing in creeks and mudhole ponds and being worried about leeches. Must have been the African Queen syndrome.