Comments on: Metaphysical Speculation Into The Nature of This Comic, or: Lovelace and Babbage vs The Salamander People

By: Kit

Kit — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:37:24 +0000

I would be careful around the problem of convection. Babbage actually was rather reckless around a volcano, but there’s only so reckless before you star to cook from the heat.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:53:18 +0000

Babbage reminds me of Bilbo Baggins. On an expedition to an active volcano, only a hobbit would bring biscuits.

By: Roberto Keller

Roberto Keller — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:47:22 +0000

Your website has GIANT ANTS!

Nah, it just happens to be a very small website.

P.S. love the meta-analysis going on here.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:18:27 +0000

The story which you linked to is quite fascinating, and a remarkably good read I might say! To think with what precision Babbage encountered the volcanic eruptions, he was quite the fellow it seems!

By: sydney

sydney — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:37:08 +0000

Your website has GIANT ANTS!

By: Roberto Keller

Roberto Keller — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:46:50 +0000

Oh please, please you have to include in the story a part were Lovelace and Babbage take back a specimen or some notes about the salamander-people to anatomist Richard Owen for study!

By: 2D Goggles » The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

2D Goggles » The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:20:27 +0000

[...] At present the only complete comic is Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Economy. A more representative half-baked episode is Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Salamander People. [...]

By: Elzevier

Elzevier — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:15:05 +0000

Babbage would totally wear the hat – he’s adventuring. But when entering the Salamander king’s abode proper, he would of course remove it.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:04:10 +0000

Salamanders are always good, of course. They don’t bother with hats and tend to have interesting spots. Hattifatteners are also good, but must be borrowed from someone else’s alternate world; barometers are a natural connection with Babbage, yes. Your tophat, your drawings and everyone’s comments have me noticing hats, thinking about hats, and following links to hats on the internet even more than usual. If I win the lottery, I am so going to indulge in more hats and boots. And Lovelace merch.

By: Smallpotato

Smallpotato — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:28:37 +0000

I’ve looked it up… (I’m such a frood!)

“More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”

See what I mean?

Eddie Izzard may claim that the British build their empire with the cunning use of flags, I say they did so with the cunning use of Hats!