{"id":3,"date":"2009-04-19T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-04-20T09:04:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T09:04:49","slug":"messing-around-with-babbage-and-lovelace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/messing-around-with-babbage-and-lovelace\/","title":{"rendered":"Messing Around With Babbage and Lovelace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Babbage<\/p>\n

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I’d like to thank everyone for your kind reception to the Ada Lovelace Bio Comic.<\/a> I love drawing comics, but it’s not something I’d normally put up on this site<\/strike> my official portfolio site, which is supposed to present me as a person of high seriousness single-mindedly devoted to excellence in visual effects. Billions of blistering benedictions on Suw<\/a> for organizing Ada Lovelace day<\/a>, thanks for blowing my cover!<\/p>\n

A common theme in the comments on the original Lovelace post<\/a> was the possibility of a Babbage and Lovelace series. As I’ve wanted to mess around with comics for a while, and as this wild goose has presented itself to be chased, I figured I may as well spin off a separate blog for these shennanigans, being as they are very tangentially related to my bread-and-butter work. Thanks to my better half for the title– you’ll pry a pun from his cold, dead hands.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if this will be exclusively Babbage and Lovelace comics. Until three weeks ago I would not have guessed I had a steampunk historical satire in me…. but it is tempting to kick stuff around. An in-depth story session produced the following:<\/p>\n

    –vampire poets!!!!
    –Napoleon– cyborg?
    –Isimbard Kingdom Brunel, sexy, hat?
    –The Organist! <\/em><\/ol>\n

    Not that this comic exists, but in doing some procrastination<\/span> research I read the extraordinary Charles Babbage’s comic masterpiece of an autobiography<\/a>. I urge everyone to read it immediately. It has charts. CHARTS! <\/p>\n

    \"babbage<\/p>\n

    Also of interest is On the economy of machinery and manufactures<\/a>, where he invents the checklist, notes down every technique ever for doing anything with a spring, and: <\/p>\n

    \"Postal <\/p>\n

    Babbage! I’m being a bit unkind to him, he wasn’t that funny looking: <\/p>\n

    \"Babbage\" <\/p>\n

    Anyways, I’m not really doing a Babbage and Lovelace comic. Just, maybe, you know, some panels here and there. Maybe some model sheets. A few pages with Educational Historical Interest. A whole freakin’ separate blog. <\/p>\n

    Teaser:<\/p>\n

    \"Wellington\"
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    In which the Author Undertakes a Wild Goose Chase; Babbage Invents the Cable-strewn Skyline; and the Duke of Wellington Makes an Appearance.<\/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-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanwhile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","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=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}