Babbage Engine Tech Support

Posted by John Farrier in Art & Design, Comics & Cartoons on May 16, 2011 at 6:55 pm

Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is consistently one of the funniest and most intelligent webcomics available. Today’s, though, was especially good. A Nineteenth Century British owner of an analytical engine is contacting tech support, which apparently wasn’t any better back then.

I would like to add that Mr. Weiner is a gentleman. A year or so ago, I emailed him, asking for permission to use one of his cartoons for a project at my day job. He responded favorably in literally under a minute, and even offered to track down and send a high-resolution version of the cartoon in question.

Link via Boing Boing

Previously: The World’s Most Addictive MMO

 
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How We Get Breakthroughs in Science

Posted by John Farrier in Comics & Cartoons, Science & Tech on March 25, 2009 at 6:34 pm


This panel from Zach Weiner’s webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal reveals what I’ve always suspected about physicists.

If you’ve never read SMBC, you’re missing out on a treat. Check it out.

 
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