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This is the longest Friday ever. Holy god.

Also, I discovered today that there are companies out there which make whiteboards framed in mahogany. This seems to be...somewhat unnecessary to me. Whiteboards are inherently untidy-looking things, and no amount of mahogany can hide that.

I've also started writing a Brand New Big Book. The Big Book for my old job is fine and good, but the new job has many new skills to learn and document. Part of me is very excited to be learning all these new things and organising them in a digital file. Another part of me wants to weep at the idea of starting from scratch. Nil desperandum, though; putting it all in a book is better than continually losing it all, anyway.

twirlynoodle reminded me just now that today is Ada Lovelace Day, which is a day dedicated especially to celebrating and promoting women in science and technology (not that we should not do that every day!). And, if you're a fan of the webcomic Lovelace & Babbage, they have in honour of the day released an iPad app for the comic which also contains linked annotations and primary documents.

I solemnly swear I read up on these websites this time. :)

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I remember reading about her for the first time in the Happy Mutant's Handbook when I was a high school sophomore and being blown away, and wondering why nobody had ever taught me about her.