What’s the Vector, Victor? Or Whose 4th was it, anyway?

These lazy days of summer are turning out to be anything but lazy for me.  One of the problems with writing a blog is keeping it up, and I’m so buried in the new American Music Festivals series that the blog has languished.  I did promise you some comments that were running on the AMPPR Listserv but they petered out and frankly were not very substantial, so I decided not to bother.

Thanks to Jeff Skibbe of KXMS in Missouri for writing a guest post on programming.   With apologies to the movie Airplane! here it is:

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Guest Post on Programming – Must Read

One of our own, General Manager Jeff Skibbe from KXMS in southern Missouri has written this guest post on programming.  Mille grazie, Jeff!

“Qube Connections” by Jeff Skibbe

I have always been a fan of British TV’s James Burke, the science historian whose episodes of the series “Connections” famously began with a thread of an idea upon which Burke would weave a rich tapestry of cause and effect in the worlds of science and technology.  If you haven’t seen the 1978 original or any of its sequels, you should investigate getting a subscription to Netflix soon.

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