{"id":212,"date":"2009-07-09T21:08:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-09-24T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T08:10:26","slug":"babbage-and-lovelace-in-glorious-technicolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/babbage-and-lovelace-in-glorious-technicolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Babbage and Lovelace in Glorious Technicolor"},"content":{"rendered":"

OH FAME THOU GAUDY BAUBLE! Charles Babbage Foresees the Future on BBC’s Techlab!<\/a> When they asked me to do this I read their little intro where it says it’s a forum for “The World’s Leading Thinkers” to speculate about the future, and I thought, if that’s me, boy are we in trouble.<\/p>\n

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There’s footnotes (of course!!) on the comic but of NOT ENOUGH FOOTNOTES FOR ME!! So–<\/p>\n

The expression on the front page comes from this drawing<\/a> (scroll down). The pose on page 2 is based on my least favorite portrait of Babbage<\/a>, where he conspires with Samuel Laurence to make himself look like a pompous ass. Not that he couldn’t be a pompous ass, but when I saw the ‘Laurence’ I momentarily thought it was Thomas Lawrence<\/a>, and was like, “Geez, way to phone that one in, Lawrence!”.<\/p>\n

For the record, my favorite image of Babbage is this one<\/a>. He looks downright hot there. Well, kind of. As a rule, Babbage looks way happier in photographs than he does in portraits<\/a>, I guess because there’s a gadget in the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OH FAME THOU GAUDY BAUBLE! Charles Babbage Foresees the Future on BBC’s Techlab! When they asked me to do this I read their little intro where it says it’s a forum for “The World’s Leading Thinkers” to speculate about the future, and I thought, if that’s me, boy are we in trouble. There’s footnotes (of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanwhile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}