Comments on: Lovelace and Babbage vs The Economy, Part 3

By: Barrie

Barrie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:44:04 +0000

Love it! Got pointed here by a female (practical) engineer of my acquaintance. Don’t dare tell her but she would make a good Brunel. Babbage and Brunal were amoung my teenage heros/role-models.
Please keep it up!

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:04:56 +0000

I have been loving L&B since running across it in my search for all things steampunk. I just can’t get enough. Ada is awesome and all little girls should learn about her or at the very least, read L&B because she’s so cool. Brunel is a sexy beast! And Babbage, the uber genius, is just great.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:11:22 +0000

I can’t decide. Is it bad that my mother said, “It’s a shame for Ada she was already married, cuz her and Big B [Brunel (yes, she really called him "Big B")] would’ve been great.”

By: S2

S2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:29:59 +0000

Brilliant. :)

I followed a link from Rabett Run ([url=http://rabett.blogspot.com/]http://rabett.blogspot.com/[/url) to get here, and I’m glad that I did – it’s a great place to spend time that you can’t really afford to.

I’ve ordered a mug despite the price (which is quite high in the UK), if you ever do publish the collected works I would buy multiple copies as they would make excellent presents for the other geeks in the family.

Thanks!

By: doIreallyNeedanAlias

doIreallyNeedanAlias — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:55:48 +0000

In reference to your remark that you do not know anything about economics- Balderdash, my child! You know everything that anybody (actually, everybody) needs to know about economics. Carry on!

By: ubiquitouspitt

ubiquitouspitt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:31:43 +0000

I actually heard Indiana Jones music playing in panels 7-9. Did you put that there or was it just me?

Engineers are hard sorts compared to mathematicians. I see that now.

I love how parliament looks like a bunch of sock puppets.

>US government which pretty much started out with a bank bail-out.

Yes, I learned that in my American Revolution class, last semester, and chuckled and chuckled and cried.

By: subliminalfox

subliminalfox — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:18:34 +0000

ooops, apparently Brunel shirts are available! my mistake! whooo!

By: subliminalfox

subliminalfox — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:17:08 +0000

Brunel shirts would seriously be awesome. Great to see his appearance. I love the Lovelace and Babbage comic. Please continue!

….and more Brunel, lol.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:04:25 +0000

I mention Davy because: he's a poet and a scientist, according to Wikipedia his "friends would often say: ‘This boy Humphry is incorrigible. He will blow us all into the air,’ and his eldest sister complained of the ravages made on her dresses by corrosive substances"; he was addicted to laughing gas; and he has a Vesuvius connection. Sadly, he died in Switzerland 8 years before your story, although I think we all know that's a kind of code. Oh man, now I'm all over your comments like a cheap suit. Sorry, next time I will order my thoughts before posting.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:16:00 +0000

…it does my heart good to see Brunel, too: as a child I traveled regularly over Brunel’s Tamar bridge, and my father went to school at Clifton. I know he’s a little outside the period, but I don’t suppose there’s any chance of a cameo for Humphry Davy?