Comments on: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

By: cthulhu42

cthulhu42 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:39:44 +0000

I’m a history nerd – and in my *terribly informed capacity as such*, I would like to point out that I LOVE THIS COMIC. Have you ever thought about doing anything with the elder generation (i.e., the Byron, Shelley circle)? You’ll find them a fascinating group of utter madmen – for example, after the death by drowning of Percy Shelley, during his subsequent bonfire cremation, Lord Byron tore Shelley’s heart out of his flaming chest and gave it to Mary. (Who kept it among her belongings, wrapped in sheets of poetry, until her death.) Byron also tried to salvage Shelley’s skull for himself, but it disintegrated…

By: Kaaz

Kaaz — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:43:32 +0000

ThinkGeek is selling a series of “Heroine” t-shirts, of famous female scientists, and Ada L. is one of them! http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/17/ada-lovelace-and-fri.html

By: Stewart

Stewart — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:58:09 +0000

Hey! Look at this bit of news!

“Zooey Deschanel has been cast in ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS where she’ll be playing Ada Lovelace, a countess and math genius who helped Charles Babbage design an “analytical engine,” which are the ancient forerunners of our modern computers.”

http://www.joblo.com/zooey-deschanel-to-enchant-some-numbers

Being a fan of both 2D Goggles AND Zooey, I for one, can’t wait!

By: Ceridwen

Ceridwen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:03:09 +0000

Hey. Perfect place for The Organist to run his nefarious business!

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:22:18 +0000

Hi Sidney!! I’ve just discovered the blog(thanks to io9). I can’t wait for the next part of The Organist. Steampunk has never been so funny!!!!

By: Daurmith

Daurmith — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:42:00 +0000

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!

By: Amanuensa

Amanuensa — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:55:06 +0000

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.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:14:16 +0000

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!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:49:23 +0000

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!

By: noah

noah — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:27:59 +0000

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