Comments on: Lovelace and Babbage Vs. The Client Pt 2

By: 2D Goggles » Babbage and Lovelace Vs The Client

2D Goggles » Babbage and Lovelace Vs The Client — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:27:49 +0000

[...] On to The Client Part 2! [...]

By: John LeMaitre

John LeMaitre — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:13:10 +0000

I really dig your comic! It is now my favorite, having surpassed “Ambush Bug”.

And you DO know the geek in me; one of my first questions upon reading this comic was, “WHAT is that FONT?!?!?” Thanks!

By: Joao Retratos

Joao Retratos — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:28:31 +0000

The characters design have a slight resemblance of the disney style. I like your characters expression as well.

By: Sydney, NSW (9/12/09) « Postcards from Oz

Sydney, NSW (9/12/09) « Postcards from Oz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:05:23 +0000

[...] Queen Victoria. Did you ever even go to Australia? I have no idea, but they sure love making statues of you. The [...]

By: Ed Falk

Ed Falk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:40:06 +0000

I once had a debugging crowbar. My inspiration was a story by Stanislov Lem, in which he talked about an ancestor who thought you could beat computers into submission. He claimed that he never sat down to program without a crowbar handy.

After reading that, I went to Sears, bought the biggest crowbar they had, then took it to the gift department and had it engraved “Official IBM Debugging Tool” and kept it by my desk.

By: TuringTest

TuringTest — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:29:31 +0000

And the face of Babbage when Lovelace says “Let us move on to the demonstration!” Lovely!

By: TuringTest

TuringTest — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:51:24 +0000

Heh! I think nobody’s mentioned the hilarious “not a bug, it’s a feature” line yet. You’ve been socializing with programmers, ain’t you? I’ve never seen it so elegantly put before. I think I’ll use this line “one of the most ingenious *features*” sometime with my own clients. (“Fail-safe jamming mechanism”! That’s pure gold!).

By: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:17:47 +0000

Say, are you aware of Bob Godfrey’s 1975 musical animated biography of Brunel, “Great?” It won an Oscar and a BAFTA award.

It was practically unobtainable for years, but I just searched for it and found that it’s now on Youtube. Thanks to Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew for pointing this out.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/bob-godfreys-great-1975.html

By: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:59:53 +0000

Ah, you have found M. François Carquillat's silk portrait of Jacquard, woven on the Jacquard loom-- Babbage owned a copy. But are you aware of the Jacquard Jacquard Jacquard? It's even more recursive! Here's a picture. That Carquillat was a stitch. (As far as I know, Babbage didn't own this Jacquard Jacquard Jacquard.) Some time ago I found a trove of information on the Jacquard loom, which might serve as interesting reference material for you. I once was contacted by a gent in Montana who owns a copy of the Jacquard Jacquard. I answered some of his questions, and he was kind enough to send me photocopies of the front and back of the picture. It is extremely high resolution. I shudder to imagine the size of the deck of cards used to generate it.

By: Sung

Sung — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:29:23 +0000

I love this. Are you thinking about publishing sometime in the future? I’d love to see antics of Babbage and Lovelace in book form.