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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Welcome!

If you are new you probably want to start with Lovelace: The Origin. You can then read the episodes/half-baked ideas/pointless ramblings chronologically by clicking on the link to the next post in the upper right of the post pages.

At present the complete comics are:

Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Economy.
Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Client
Depending on how you define ‘complete’: The Person From Porlock

More representative half-baked episodes would be Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Salamander People,, or Porlock Revisited. These are filed under Meanwhile…

There is also the Complete Episode List for convenient time-wasting.

Questions are addressed at the FAQ.

The latest episode is immediately below this one.

This entry was written by sydney , posted on Saturday October 10 2009at 11:10 pm , filed under Meanwhile.. . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

21 Responses to “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage”

  1. el forastero, on July 9th, 2009 at 6:13 pm Said:

    I now officialy have a new favorite web comic…..

  2. Christopher, on July 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm Said:

    Noticed your visit (must’ve been you because it was from your WP admin panel!) – hope I managed to do your comic justice :) Look forward to The Next Thrilling Instalment Of…

  3. mike stone, on July 14th, 2009 at 6:19 pm Said:

    Regarding Brunel: if you haven’t seen ‘Great’ — an animated short feature about IKB, his personality and career — you must. It’s on YouTube at:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHg1W9kArwQ

  4. Ceridwen, on July 15th, 2009 at 1:30 am Said:

    ‘Great’ was a big one, all right! :D

  5. Marion Delgado, on July 16th, 2009 at 6:39 pm Said:

    I’m not afraid to say this is brilliant.

    If you’ll excuse me, I’m off to a succession of parties … what’s all these messages on my answering machine … why did someone leave a propellor beanie on my doorstep … what do they mean, not really invited … good heavens

  6. Kim, on July 18th, 2009 at 12:43 am Said:

    Hmmm… mysterious! I’ll have a look tonite!! Sorry about that!

  7. Ray Girvan, on July 18th, 2009 at 4:44 pm Said:

    Brilliant

    Seconded! I got heavily into L&B ten years ago when Felix Grant and I co-wrote a Scientific Computing World column in their personas.

  8. t3knomanser, on July 21st, 2009 at 12:45 am Said:

    Dear Sir or Madam or Neuter or Genetic Hybrid or Alternate Inhumanly Gendered Being that Looks upon the Mammillian Conception of Gender with Mild Disgust and a Slight Tinge of Curiosity, in the Same Sense in which Goatse Creates Curiosity,

    WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I mean, aside from this. Because, honestly, IT’S NOT IMPORTANT. Curing cancer? Don’t care. Raping babies? Pleasant hobby, but not terribly important in the scheme of things. Unraveling the greatest mysteries to puzzle the human mind? Booooring.

    I. Want. More. Of. This.

    Please, re-establish your priorities along the lines of what actually matters, and continue more of this. I think three panels a day is perfectly reasonable, but if you feel driven to do more, I certainly wouldn’t complain. Perhaps an 8-panel, full color Sunday installment.

    A perfectly reasonable request. Please continue. I’ll be monitoring your RSS feed for progress updates, and expect nothing but positive progress reports. You’re a smart individual, I’m sure we won’t have any trouble.

  9. Brian Gates, on July 29th, 2009 at 7:49 pm Said:

    Please find a way to bring Charles Wheatstone in, best known for not inventing the Wheatstone Bridge he was also a cryptographer and invented the concertina (as used by street musicians).

  10. Bella Green, on July 29th, 2009 at 11:39 pm Said:

    Wit and hilarity! And my teenaged daughter *loves it*! (She’s a math baby too) We had a bonding moment! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Wheeee!

  11. ted, on July 30th, 2009 at 5:00 pm Said:

    Is it me or does everyone check this website everyday at least 3 times for updates? I know you are busy with work and that saddens me because I miss Babbage’s adventures. :) Hope to see some soon.

  12. sydney, on July 30th, 2009 at 8:40 pm Said:

    OH geez I’m sorry.. I’ve just been swamped and the next episode keeps mysteriously sprouting gags. You could always subscribe to the RSS feed so it will come to you when it’s ready.. or I do have a Twitter feed if you REALLY want to track the progress..

  13. Ceridwen, on July 31st, 2009 at 3:40 am Said:

    And gags are bad?

    I check, too. Often. I even check for new comments, hence me making a new comment in response to new comments. (This will, of course, curtail itself down to a dull roar once school starts up again.)

    Hope work evens out soon!

  14. jalf, on August 26th, 2009 at 7:14 pm Said:

    The navigation is a bit wonky. The ‘next’ link starting from ‘the origin’ seems to work up to http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/the-person-from-porlock/, where it mysteriously vanishes.

  15. sydney, on August 29th, 2009 at 9:49 pm Said:

    Ghu.. thanks jalf.. I’ll see if I can hunt down the cause. It might be related to the mystery sidebar bumping which arises around the same time I think. At some point I might have to outsource this webby stuff it sure eats up a lot of time!

  16. Xcott, on September 18th, 2009 at 10:38 pm Said:

    I would pay hella money for a proper print of the panel in Origins when Ada tries to Twitter her discovery of the analytical engine, and realizes that she only has a fan.

    I humbly suggest you consider adding such things to your store: I don’t really need a coffee mug or babydoll hoodie, but I decorate my house with prints of ingenious webcomic art. I see a great need!

  17. noah, on October 5th, 2009 at 10:27 pm Said:

    you’re my new favorite comic. this is freaking amazingly brilliant what you’ve been doing here. can’t wait for more!

  18. Jamie, on October 11th, 2009 at 7:49 pm Said:

    Important point: These comics are fabulous!

    Unimportant but hopefully helpful point: When I tried to subscribe to the RSS feed using Firefox by clicking the little blue icon that shows up at the right-hand end of the navigation bar, it didn’t work because there’s a space in the URL between ‘feedburner.com/’ and ’sydneypadua’; same problem with the Atom feed. Not a problem with the orange icon at the top of your right-hand menu, though.

    Brief recap of important point: Fab!

  19. Tom, on October 22nd, 2009 at 3:14 am Said:

    I’m just agreeing with Jamie’s comment above. I’d love to add your feed to my reader, but I’d rather use your url and not feedburner directly. Unfortunately, the forwarder from your wordpress feed url to feedburner has an errant space messing up the redirection!
    I’ll be checking back often until it’s fixed though! Awesome comics!

  20. Amanuensa, on January 3rd, 2010 at 7:55 pm Said:

    I certainly hope the real-work Monsters have not consumed you physically as well as psychic-ly. I need more Ada and the Bab. My geek-nerd-IT daughter directed me to your comic and I have spent the past four hours navigating and chortling through it when I should be de-Christmas-ing my house and preparing classes for tomorrow. I have been writing a book about Byron for about a third of my life and direct you to my FAQs about him deep in my pages at http://www.byronmania.com. MORE! I NEED MORE. Annabella as a shaded spectre, Ada’s fan – useless for Twitter, and Queen Vicky’s ornate vocabulary are my faves. I laughed aloud at the dot matrix kitty – ah! those were the days. You are a comic genius and I hope you are getting sufficient reward.

  21. Daurmith, on February 12th, 2010 at 10:42 pm Said:

    More? Please? I hope you will continue with this. I’ve just discovered the blog (thanks to Pharyngula), and now I pounce on anyone I know and start telling them about the Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. And when they tell me they didn’t have any, I go “Bah! Humbug!” and return here to twitter things on fans. Thank you very very much for the comic, the laughs, and the science!

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