So here’s a little tale for you.  As it features ME, it is of course a gripping, hair-raising story of FUN and COOL and… okay, it’s a tale of.. LIBRARIES.
So I’ve been tromping all over London in search of a few bits and bobs of books on Babbage, and a public library catalogue search for [...]

My purpose in this episode is get all the computer gags out of the way.

This episode is dedicated to my husband, who keeps asking, “When are they going to FIGHT CRIME?”
Notes Bonanza!!
-Queen Victoria: totally took over the world!
-Charles Babbage: totally fought crime!
-Ada Lovelace: totally swore while debugging: “.. for it is damnably troublesome work, and [...]

Long renders and an itchy Google finger turn up a strange, sudden little window into the past:
So, what DID Babbage talk about when he talked about Ada? WHOA.
I found that little story amazing for a few reasons-
-I’m kind of staggered by the fact that Babbage is telling this stuff to a complete [...]

It’s actually taken this long for Minion to get through all of Queen Victoria’s titles..

So historically accurate IT’S PRACTICALLY A DOCUMENTARY!
-Babbage lists some of the annoying questions he got asked about his engines here.  He ascribes the question about the wrong numbers sometimes to ‘ladies’ and sometimes to ‘members of Parliament’;  having lost count of [...]

Did I say two weeks?  Erm… here!  Look at some process art!

Please understand that at present my priories are necessarily:  1. Job 2. Pub 3. Comic 4. Food, laundry, etc.
I tend to do roughs while waiting for renders (that invaluable source of idleness in the visual effects industry).  Something else I do is Scholarship.  Some [...]