{"id":995,"date":"2011-03-09T22:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/?p=995"},"modified":"2011-12-05T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:18:05","slug":"another-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/another-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty swamped at work and drawing the new comic (I swear!!), so I’m kicking back and letting other people do the hard labour this post. Fortunately I have some terrific stuff from the awesome readers around here!<\/p>\n

–Firstly! I ought to have put this up ages ago– Epithumia who made the spectacular Albion: 1849<\/a> Babbage and Lovelace extravanganza sent me following: One Man Band! Click the image for the big version!<\/p>\n

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Once again this comic’s fanart has higher production values than its actual art…<\/p>\n

— Whilst you read that, you put on some cracking tunes– John Hekert of the nefarious musical collective Not A Teepee have produced a whole album of Ada Lovelace-inspired songs, you can listen to them here,<\/a> they are pretty awesome!<\/p>\n

This reminds me of an odd fact: although several people have written me nice notes to share with me that they named their daughters ‘Ada’ after Ada Lovelace, I have never once<\/em> had anyone communicate to me that they’ve named their son ‘Isambard Kingdom’ after Brunel. Odd!<\/small><\/p>\n

— I hear your concerns that many weeks have passed without a footnote<\/em>. Such a starved existence cannot be long endured! I have no comics this week to provide footnotes to, so in consideration for your plight I provide a retroactive one. Remember when Lovelace had a go at Babbage for getting dates mixed up in The Client<\/a>? Well I was perusing Lovelace’s collected letters the other day and with a thrill<\/em> of eldritch forces at work<\/em> discovered further PROOF that this comic is psychic:<\/p>\n

Dear Babbage.
\nI have not yet succeeded in getting you to comprehend that you<\/u> were asked for the 18th<\/u>, Ryan<\/u> for the 25th<\/u>.– Why you have confounded the two<\/u> together<\/u> I cannot imagine!– We hold you<\/u> to the 18th.<\/u> But if you like to come the on the 25th<\/u> also<\/u>, do<\/u>.– What a puzzle-pated phil.<\/u> you are!– I explained it clearly in my first note.– Why did you jumble it?
\nLovelace to Babbage, 1848<\/small>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book indicates a double underscore under ‘do’ but it’s to much of a pain to reproduce that in html. Note to self:<\/u> put more underscores<\/u> in Lovelace’s dialogue<\/u>. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Lady Lovelace’s eccentricities, I’ve been messing around with some new costumes for her and somehow this came out.. hard luck with the ponies again, Ada?<\/p>\n

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Why haven’t I put her in those celebrity-child dark glasses before??
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There was some skepticism on twitter when I put these sketches up as to these being an anachronism, which of course are NEVER SEEN here at the meticulously accurate 2dgoggles. Answer: awww yeah, 1855 baby:<\/p>\n

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And FINALLY, in the theme of people inspired to do MARVELLOUS things– remember the ASCII kitten at the end of Economic Model? I figured it was theoretically possible for the Analytical Engine to produce such a thing, but GENIUS commenter Tez (this was ages ago, sorry Tez!!!) brings the Pocket Universe one tantalising step closer! Making stellar use of Fourmilab’s Analytical Engine Emulator<\/a>.. BEHOLD THE AWESOME MIGHT OF THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE:<\/p>\n

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Click ‘continue reading’ for the punchcards, and you can try it yourself on the emulator Java applet!<\/a>
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Tez writes:<\/p>\n

See how Ada saved the day (The Client Pt3)
\nPaste the following set of Virtual Analytical Engine punched cards into:
\nhttp:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/babbage\/websim\/ex1.html
\nPS you need Java
\nPPS First click Clear, then Paste the cards, then click Start
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I’m pretty swamped at work and drawing the new comic (I swear!!), so I’m kicking back and letting other people do the hard labour this post. Fortunately I have some terrific stuff from the awesome readers around here! –Firstly! I ought to have put this up ages ago– Epithumia who made the spectacular Albion: 1849 […]<\/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-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanwhile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}