I'll vote Alan Turing, but Babbage is interesting too.
Yay!Yay, I get explaining!
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
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.
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.
Sue - Nov 22, 2005 5:19:51 pm PST #6559 of 10006
hip deep in pie
I think we see light vibrate at the same frequency or whatever it is that makes colours colours, but I have had shirts that I would classify as blue that other people called purple, and have the same confusion with yellow and green and pink and purple.
Is fuschia a purple or a pink. I always say pink, but a lot say purple.
Trudy Booth - Nov 22, 2005 5:20:52 pm PST #6560 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
How do you accidentally put poison on your apple?
amych - Nov 22, 2005 5:21:47 pm PST #6561 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Turing machines! The halting problem! Computability! Breaking Enigma! The Turing test!
I love it when you talk dirty.
Allyson - Nov 22, 2005 5:27:12 pm PST #6562 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Hairpats! Need hairpats! Bad day. Terrible day. Getting worse.