Should I do my next paper on Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, or, um, other Great Figure of the last three centuries?
Babbage is the guy with the Difference Engine, right? That sounds cool.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
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Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:02:14 pm PST #6549 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 5:03:38 pm PST #6550 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Also, 'elses' is a weird word.
Pretty sure that's because it never comes up. Except maybe in literary theory: "In this way the author problematizes the character's uniqueness, creating a host of others and elses, all imbued with post-colonial notions of the exotic." Er, throw a reference to gender in there somewhere.
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:05:21 pm PST #6551 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was confused. I was thinking of possessive pronouns, which don't get the apostrophe.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 5:06:09 pm PST #6552 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Babbage is the guy with the Difference Engine, right? That sounds cool.
Yes, but Turing invented the Turing Machine! Plus? Gay. I know that shouldn't be a factor, but I can't help it. I'm sure I'm imbuing him with post-Stonewall conceptions of cool or something, but I find it so hard to overcome that bias.
The slash probably isn't helping. I probably need to go seek out really unpleasant gay people to balance my perceptions, but somehow that never manages to get a high priority on my list of things to do.
Cass - Nov 22, 2005 5:06:55 pm PST #6553 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'll vote Alan Turing, but Babbage is interesting too.
Yay!Yay, I get explaining!
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:07:30 pm PST #6554 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Being pre-Stonewall, the gay mostly made him depressed. He killed himself, right?
amych - Nov 22, 2005 5:08:16 pm PST #6555 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
He killed himself, right?
With a cyanide-laced apple, unless the play lied to me.
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:11:57 pm PST #6556 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
With a cyanide-laced apple, unless the play lied to me.
Ooh, that's kinda' cool. D'ya suppose that was symbolic of the Fall of man?
That could be a topic for a slow afternoon - rate the suicides of famous intellectuals by how cool the suicide was.
sumi - Nov 22, 2005 5:14:19 pm PST #6557 of 10006
Art Crawl!!!
See, I was thinking more Snow White than Fall of Man. . . but I suppose Snow White's poison apple was also about the Fall of Man too.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 5:18:50 pm PST #6558 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Apparently, there's a little bit of argument about whether it was intentional, but not much. But yes, death by apple.
And no, the bits of his biography to which his sexuality is relevant are not really the happy bits. But Turing machines! The halting problem! Computability! Breaking Enigma! The Turing test!
Wicked cool. Er, plus he was a character in Cryptonomicon. That probably won't make it into my paper.