Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Tuesday, January 03, 2012 :::
I just saw a headline "Demi joins Lovelace biopic" and got pretty excited about what I assumed would be a movie about Ada Lovelace . Nope. Apparently there was a pornstar who shared her last name.
My husband has a computer named Lovelace, which I also assumed was named after Ada. I hope I haven't been making the same mistake there.
I set up Lovelace my computer on Ada Lovelace's birthday; that's where the name is from. Want to guess on which day of the year I set up the laptop called "Groundhog"?
I had heard of Linda Lovelace, though, because a team in the 70s or early 80s developed an early object-oriented programming language called "Ada" and a later team developed a multi-threaded language called "Linda".