{"id":430,"date":"2010-02-28T22:39:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-09-24T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T08:15:29","slug":"the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

So although I finished up on the virtual Giant Monsters a couple of weeks ago, I still had to face ACTUAL Giant Monsters in the form of a live audience at The Story<\/a> last Friday. A great time was had by all, including even me when I emerged from my haze of terror!<\/p>\n

I’ve assembled a slideshow of my talk– with the warning that THIS POWERPOINT CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE ORGANSIT! It’s about 15 minutes long; that incoherent high-pitched squeaking you hear is me erming and ahing and forgetting all my brilliant punchlines.<\/p>\n

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I believe you can see it a bit bigger onsite at myplick.<\/a><\/p>\n

I also did a little comic for their handout newspaper thingie (click for larger):<\/p>\n

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Footnotes to the comic!<\/p>\n

–“Make ’em laugh, make ’em cry, make ’em wait” was the motto of Wilkie Collins<\/a>; he was pretty good at it, as anyone kept up until 3 in the morning by the last chapters of “No Name” can attest. Personally I’ve nailed the ‘Make ‘Em Wait’ part.<\/p>\n

–Charles Babbage did indeed propose writing a three-volume novel, as he describes in his autobiography: “solely for the purpose of making money to assist me in completing the Analytical Engine.”<\/a> On consulting with a poet friend, he received the dispiriting news that it was likely to cost him more to publish a novel than he would ever earn back from it. <\/p>\n

–The Classics gag (Latin and Greek) is shamelessly robbed from Alice in Wonderland; Laughing and Grief are amongst the subjects (along with Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils) included in the excellent education of the Mock Turtle.<\/p>\n

–In her Notes on the Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace speculates that the Engine could potentially “compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”– that is, ” supposing that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations”. Computer-composed music has been achieved; the world still awaits scientific storytelling.<\/p>\n

AND, if that’s not enough crazy overexposure, I’m going to be on the ShiftRunStop<\/a> podcast this week, where they have inexplicably asked me to appear despite<\/em> having heard my Smooth Dulcet Tones at The Story.<\/p>\n

This entry has been heroically posted inbetween hockey periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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