Another Miscellany
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 Babbage and Lovelace extravanganza sent me following: One Man Band! Click the image for the big version!
Once again this comic's fanart has higher production values than its actual art…
– 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, they are pretty awesome!
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 had anyone communicate to me that they've named their son 'Isambard Kingdom' after Brunel. Odd!
– I hear your concerns that many weeks have passed without a footnote. 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? Well I was perusing Lovelace's collected letters the other day and with a thrill of eldritch forces at work discovered further PROOF that this comic is psychic:
Dear Babbage.
I have not yet succeeded in getting you to comprehend that you were asked for the 18th, Ryan for the 25th.– Why you have confounded the two together I cannot imagine!– We hold you to the 18th. But if you like to come the on the 25th also, do.– What a puzzle-pated phil. you are!– I explained it clearly in my first note.– Why did you jumble it?
Lovelace to Babbage, 1848
The book indicates a double underscore under 'do' but it's to much of a pain to reproduce that in html. Note to self: put more underscores in Lovelace's dialogue.
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?
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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:
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.. BEHOLD THE AWESOME MIGHT OF THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE:
Click 'continue reading' for the punchcards, and you can try it yourself on the emulator Java applet!
Tez writes:
See how Ada saved the day (The Client Pt3)
Paste the following set of Virtual Analytical Engine punched cards into:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/websi...
PS you need Java
PPS First click Clear, then Paste the cards, then click Start
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