Awesome.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5614 

Earth looks peaceful up here: 

 

It's time to look up from the morass of politics to the SpaceX Polaris spacewalk completed this morning. Feel the awe of human achievement. Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis opened the hatch, and floated outside while their backup team of pilot Scott Poteet and Anna Menon were with them in their depressurized cabin. All were safe in the first non-government spacewalk. We still got it.  

 

Well, it's back to the drawing board, or should I say back to the Pet shop to find nourishment for that languishing puppy. Yet it isn't surprising that this election now hinges on a cat and dog fight. Because in this world of dog-eat-dog and instantaneous communication, that it’s absurdity is what is remembered. What ever happened to statesmen and stateswomen, and leaders.  

 

You have to like WNBA rookie superstar Caitlin Clake’s answer when asked who she is going to vote for. She said that people shouldn't care who I vote for. They should make up their own minds based on what they believe. Did you hear that Taylor? 

 

An angry German group: Sauer crowd. 

 

The Question: 

Who was Jack Kilby? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Four Civilians Step Out of SpaceX Polaris for the first time without Government assistance. 

--Stock Futures ae little edgy; Rate Reduction Worries Still Casting a Shadow. 

--Francine hits West of New Orleans as Cat 2; Power Outages and Port Disruption Main Effects so far; 3 Other Disturbances seen in Atlantic. 

--Wild Fires Causing Mass Evacuations in California, Nevada and Oregon; Fire Destroys SoCal Ski Resort.  

--Winning Mega Millson $850 Millon Ticket Purchased in Texas.  

 

 

Well, the TidsPickers didn't do awful, last week at 11-5, with one miss being perfectly delightful to me -- The Pats over Cincy. This week looks odd. Tonight is a good game between Buffalo and Miami, which I see as a tossup. I'll go with Josh Allen and Buffalo. I'm just going to run down the games today. I like Balt over LV in a rather easy pick. Equally easy is The Chargers over Carolina. New Orleans is a mystery so I go Dallas based on last week's good-looking showing. Everybody is loving Detroit. TB will be a better opponent than may be expected. But the Lions will win. With Jordan Love goign down, GB and Indiana becomes a tough pick. The Pack will find a way at home. Cleveland looked bad last week and Jax should have won. They will this week. I have to pick San Fran over the Vikings and The Jets over a Tennessee, a team still looking for a personality. The Giants versus Washington has been a war for decades and this year The Skins are pretty good, and the Giants aren’t. Washington is the pick. 

 

Another tough pick is the Rams and the Cards., I really don't have a clue about these two 0-1 teams who are supposed to be contenders. I'll go Arizona. I can't walk away from KC, and they win even if the very good Burrow is on Cincy with good receivers, Pitt-Denver and Chi -Houston are tossups in my mind, Ill take Pitt and the home team Houston. They could go either way. On Monday Philly faces an Atlanta team people thought would be better. Is Kirk Cousins beginning to look like the worst contract signing ever. I'll go Eagles. That leaves my beloved Pats versus the Seahawks. I like the Pats Defense and Seattle is too much of a mystery. I og oht my heart.  

 

Hey, former movie star Alicia Silverstone is telling us that toilet paper causes cancer. How come movie stars know so much more than average intelligent people. Maybe its because they are paid to sell other products.  

 

RI is the most vaccinated state in the nation. Maybe it's to protect us all from tourists. All six New England states are in the top ten – RI, Ma Maine, Washington, Maryland, Vermont, Minn, New Hampshire, DC and Connecticut. Just in case you are interested. 

 

Some people will say the money used for the spacewalk could have built housing ofr the homeless. But futures depend on daring action in the present. 

 

Sometimes I just like to walk on piers for the halibut.  

 

Trump said yesterday morning when asked if he would seek another event that he probably wouldn’t becausee we won last night “By a lot”. His supporters are saying overwise and actually ridiculing him. He in a deep hole and he will have out dig hard.  

 

The good news about the Space X triumph today is that it looks good for a SpaceX triumph in February to bring home the stranded astronauts.  

 

In those states once flourishing though manufacturing, it appears that the Trump message of “Saving a Nation in Decline" is resonating with undecided voters. Hope always wins.  

 

The Answer: 

Jack Kilby was a Texas Instruments electrical engineer who in created the first working integrated circuit which gave us the amazing technology so prevalent today. He won the Nobel Prise for Physics in 2000. He and Robert Noyce from Fairchild Semi-Conductor combined their inventios to produce silicon microcircuitry. Kilby Patented the miniature electronic circuit. Noyce patented the Silicon based integrated circuit.  

 

Soft tissue between sharks’ teeth? Slow swimmers. Ouch. 

 

What a terrible way to end Tids that began with marvelous human achievement.  

 

Have a wonderful Thursday, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!