So I’m avoiding Fridays, the better to not bump up against my other scheduled posting thing, the 3WA. Which, hopefully, this archival project will not distract too much from.

And this is one of those cases where my site’s format differing so much from Tumblr’s dashboard makes my image layout choices seem a bit odd. Welp. I had to do what I had to do…

(7 January 2014)

“There was not much point slaving over a hot colony for all this if you couldn’t keep it, was there? Which brings us to the last English thing. The magic word: Property.” ”“ James Burke, The Day The Universe Changed

Oh, the timing on this drove me batty. Trying to fit into a 1000KB file size required the second image to be slowed down to an abysmal frame rate. Such is life, I suppose. The other bit I was considering working with from the first half of the episode turned out to be even harder to slice up into usable bits. So there’s that.

Here’s the possibly-long-awaited first image set from the sixth episode of the series, “Credit Where It’s Due,” about how England went from a “bunch of seagoing farmers to a nation of technocrats.”

(9 January 2014)

“I mean, look at it from a cash register point of view. In the old days, it rained, the roads got muddy, the transportation costs went up. Now? The more water the better!” ”“ James Burke, The Day The Universe Changed

No matter how I fiddled with this one, the segment in question was bound and determined to come out with an odd number of images. So I tried something different, a big cropped-down fifth image. I’m moderately happy with this solution

Mind you, the better part of this scene comes immediately afterward but that bit absolutely refused to slice up neatly. Go watch “Credit Where It’s Due,” the sixth episode of the series, to see it for yourself.

Next up? The rise of modern medicine.