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<\/a><\/p>\nPlease understand that at present my priories are necessarily:\u00a0 1. Job 2. Pub 3. Comic 4. Food, laundry, etc.<\/p>\n
I tend to do roughs while waiting for renders (that invaluable source of idleness in the visual effects industry).\u00a0 Something else I do is Scholarship.\u00a0 Some scholars search for Truth; here at 2dgoggles we search for Entertainment.\u00a0 Something I was surprised to discover was that Charles Babbage was really, REALLY famous, back in the day, if by famous you mean, useful as a punchline in popular comedy.\u00a0\u00a0 A few highlights of my researches:<\/p>\n
– Celebrity Chef fears Babbage’s army of steam-automota line-cooks!<\/a><\/p>\n – ‘Charles Babbage’ as useful shorthand for ‘really smart person’<\/a>.\u00a0 Nowadays you’d use Stephen Hawking for that kind of gag, who oddly enough holds Babbage’s old position of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge.<\/p>\n -Babbage the logarithmetical Frankenstein! :D<\/p>\n – How was Babbage’s autobiography received by his peers?\u00a0 Yeeeeaahh.. that’s about right.<\/a><\/p>\n And I’m not even touching on the street music thing, which was HUGE.<\/p>\n Ada coverage from the period is far fewer and farther between, as a Lady only appears in the papers on her birth, her wedding, and her death, and that time they publish a huge paper on computer programming.\u00a0 I did find an interesting entry in an 1860 encyclopedia<\/a> (about 9 years after her death), which gets in the ever-popular horse-racing but also remarks on her as excelling in chess. \u00a0 She turns up as a footnote in Hereditary Genius<\/a> (with special section on Oarsmen<\/a>, which are no insignificant part of the community!) under her father’s footnote of “strange, proud, passionate, and half-mad.”<\/p>\n Babbage AND Lovelace miscellany:<\/p>\n – Great little bunch of anecdotes about both them<\/a>— she’s too mathematical for one guys taste, but Babbage ‘loved to talk of her’; kids made fun of Babbage at school– you just wait till I get my time machine you little bastards!<\/p>\n Babbage to Michael Faraday: Ada Lovelace is an enchanted math fairy!<\/a> I can’t cope with the whole Enchantress thing, which is why I needed a stiff drink or twenty to get through much of her correspondence.<\/p>\n – The\u00a0 motherlode of Babbage anecdotes!<\/a> with special Lovelace cameo! A ‘Babbage’ search turns up, among plenty else, “Charles Babbage: Hot or Not?”<\/a>, Babbage taking some ladies up to his place to see his etchings<\/span> Ada Lovelace’s math,<\/a> and proof that I’m PSYCHIC as his place is described as “crammed with books, papers, and apparatus in apparent confusion.”\u00a0 Stereotypes: never wrong!<\/p>\n Man, when I read too much about Lovelace and Babbage’s unhappy ends I get so depressed I can hardly carry on with the comic.\u00a0 However, I shall RESCUE THEM and keep them safe in a pocket dimension, where they will have a giant difference engine to play with in exchange for being made to do funny things.<\/p>\n Anyways– not too many more days until the Client Pt2, depending on how many gags I can throw overboard to lighten the load..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did I say two weeks?\u00a0 Erm… here!\u00a0 Look at some process art! Please understand that at present my priories are necessarily:\u00a0 1. Job 2. Pub 3. Comic 4. Food, laundry, etc. I tend to do roughs while waiting for renders (that invaluable source of idleness in the visual effects industry).\u00a0 Something else I do is […]<\/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-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanwhile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}