Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

This is at the upholstery shop next door. Very cool.

triumph5 wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: I kinda dig "steampunk"..

Is that a difference engine?

Yup. Designed by Charles Babbage in 1849, finally built by the London Science Museum in 2002.

Googled it. Interesting stufff, in a ahead of his time, but not quite there way.

And the first programmer was ... a woman. Augusta Ada Lovelace:

They made me learn that when they tought me to program in Ada.

From a British car show last weekend.

Jensenman got first in class with his Jensen. DA me didn't get a picture of it.

I think the appropriate meme is, "Damn nature, you scary"

triumph5 wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: I kinda dig "steampunk"..

Is that a difference engine?

Yup. Designed by Charles Babbage in 1849, finally built by the London Science Museum in 2002.

Googled it. Interesting stufff, in a ahead of his time, but not quite there way.

Gibson (neuromancer) and sterling (snowcrash) wrote a good alternate history steampunk novel where difference engines worked as well as babbage envisioned. Basically, it assumed that the information age started in the victorian era. Fun read

The exotic car thread lead me to this... ahhhhh.

Scary, but spectacular nature!

Looks like a spider, but just a scary plant

Show this to your kids when they are bad....

Looks like a fly to fish with...

Can't wait to see some of the Halloween pics that come up.

.00001 second of a nuclear detonation.

.00003 second of a nuclear detonation.

slantvaliant wrote: And the first programmer was ... a woman. Augusta Ada Lovelace:

Any relation?

This is the first Lovelace I think of. Maybe I'm showing my age.

triumph5 wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: I kinda dig "steampunk"..

Is that a difference engine?

Yup. Designed by Charles Babbage in 1849, finally built by the London Science Museum in 2002.

Googled it. Interesting stufff, in a ahead of his time, but not quite there way.

Can't blame anyone for doing what they could with the tech they had. Makes me wonder what the man could have done if the transistor (or even tubes) had been invented back then..

JoeyM wrote: I think the appropriate meme is, "Damn nature, you scary"

Bah. Turn around and shoot it. John's about to skin this one..

Go play it, y'all. There's a reason I skipped two weeks of the Triple Awesome League.

So i went down to my appartment garage and next to my rx8, where a newer GTi usually sits, I see one of these: It's a little rough around the edges, has some minor rust here and there, ya know, good charachter. I don't know the guy who parks next to me, but I now know he is awesome.

I absolutely LOVE Red Dead Redemption.

Anyone pick up the zombie DLC yet?

Woody wrote:

914Driver wrote: No. 1967 911R.

Is it wrong that I'd rather have the bus than the 911?

Nope, not here.

Racer1ab wrote: I absolutely LOVE Red Dead Redemption. Anyone pick up the zombie DLC yet?

I did, and have been enjoying it. It's a bit random, but...

Wild West + Zombies = Awesome

Zip ties, now for shoe repair too.