Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Client Pt 3

Published at: 12:08 pm - Friday August 21 2009

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 [...]

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Lovelace and Babbage Vs. The Client Pt 2

Published at: 09:08 am - Monday August 10 2009

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 [...]

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Babbage and Lovelace Vs The Client

Published at: 11:07 pm - Sunday July 05 2009

Took me a while but.. prepare for A TALE OF TERROR! DRAWN FROM LIFE!!!

Notes! Beautiful notes!
–Footmen were selected for their fine physiques, so that drawing of Minion is of historical, not prurient interest, or course!
–Speaking tubes! Babbage advocates for them in Machines and Manufactures, along with his proto-twitter signal lights and steeple-borne [...]

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