Haiku for Ada Lovelace:
You had a vision
With numbers you’d make music
play eternally
Countess, as I toil into the night on my computing machine listening to the unlimited* stream of my Pandora channels with my lady-ears, I give thanks to the first computer programmer and fancy lady that you were. Yay, math!
Additionally, big ups for having a perfectly incorrigible and possibly greatly disturbed father and yet not becoming a useless Mrs. Havisham type, wringing your hands as you wandered the moors. And sorry about the big C and the blood-letting ‘cures’…if only you had lasted longer than your 36 years, what might you have accomplished?
Also, from a style perspective, seems like you were pretty fabulous.
* Or only 40 hrs a month
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- Smart AND Pretty.
