With a new font choice and months of experience making gifsets for Burke’s later show, I tilted at the windmill called Connections for another bunch of gifset posts, now archived here for what posterity may be achieved…

(13 August 2014)

“So let’s say that finally somewhere far out into the country, you come across a place that looks right. And let’s say that you’ve had the good sense and the good luck to look for a farm. Because that’s where food comes from, doesn’t it? Okay, so it’s a farm, so you decide to stop. Has anybody got there first? Or are the owners still here? Because you’re going to need shelter, and people don’t give their homes away.” ”“ James Burke, Connections

And we’re back! And we’re taking on the series that really kicked things off, the original Connections.

There isn’t much in the way of light and fluffy in the first episode, so you get this. Yet it’s just as relevant today as it was several decades ago

(14 August 2014)

“And yet, whether or not you dress up technology to look local, the technology network is the same. And as it spreads, will it spread the ability to use machines as we do: without understanding them?” ”“ James Burke, Connections

This, from the tail end of the introductory Connections episode, “The Trigger Effect.”

All of these programs are worth watching, it’s true. This one hits the mark quite well, all things considered, in a world where the specter of catastrophic weather events and dramatic climate change may send modern Western civilization scrambling to rediscover how to function on the most basic of levels.

Next up, we’ll find a selection or two from the first “regular” episode of the series, “Death in the Morning.” Bombs away!