Comments on: The Origin of Ada Lovelace http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Tue, 21 May 2013 03:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/comment-page-1/#comment-114343 Johanna Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:53:17 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=6610#comment-114343 Yes. According to Wikipedia, “She was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron but had no relationship with her father, who died when she was nine. … Her mother’s obsession with rooting out any of the insanity of which she accused Lord Byron was one of the reasons that Lovelace was taught mathematics from an early age.” That’s my favorite part of her story. Math as a cure for insanity!

]]> By: Joseph Wexler http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/comment-page-1/#comment-114342 Joseph Wexler Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:12:00 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=6610#comment-114342 Was Ada Lord Byron’s daughter?

]]> By: 4thletter! » Blog Archive » Staying Wide Awake With Ada Lovelace http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/comment-page-1/#comment-103732 4thletter! » Blog Archive » Staying Wide Awake With Ada Lovelace Thu, 07 May 2009 19:01:00 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=6610#comment-103732

[...] Johanna Draper-Carlson wrote a post about another new webcomic. 2D Goggles is a comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, Grandparents of modern computing. It’s a fun little ditty about equations, numbers, and science, but manages to be amazingly entertaining despite all of the gross science involved. [...]

]]> By: Fleen: Enjoy Our Semi-Abusive Opinion Mongering » No, For Real This Time http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/comment-page-1/#comment-103696 Fleen: Enjoy Our Semi-Abusive Opinion Mongering » No, For Real This Time Wed, 06 May 2009 17:55:31 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=6610#comment-103696

[...] My friend Brett sent me a link to a webcomic I’ve been enjoying the crap out of the last couple days: the experimental series known as 2D Goggles goes all difference engine on us with the totally awesome adventures of Ada, Lady Lovelace. Thrills! Spills! Swashbuckling adventure! And Babbage totally hates musicians, as confirmed by a completely different creator! Start at that first link and work your way forward as Ada kicks so much ass and Twitters about it (and fie! Fie, I say, upon Johanna Draper Carlson for finding it before I did). [...]

]]> By: Kelson http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/comment-page-1/#comment-103656 Kelson Wed, 06 May 2009 06:21:10 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=6610#comment-103656 Fantastic! I’m definitely going to have to read more of this!

Trivia item: Ada Lovelace has a programming language named for her: Ada. Sadly, it wasn’t used to create Twitter.

]]> By: david brothers http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/comment-page-1/#comment-103623 david brothers Tue, 05 May 2009 16:13:12 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=6610#comment-103623 The look on her face when she realizes that Twitter doesn’t exist yet is wonderful. This was a great find.

]]> By: Ed Sizemore http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/04/the-origin-of-ada-lovelace/comment-page-1/#comment-103618 Ed Sizemore Tue, 05 May 2009 10:43:11 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=6610#comment-103618 That’s hysterical. I loved it. I knew about Babbage, but not Lovelace. Now I’m going to have to go read a biography of her.

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