From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e734a787355dd479 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.236.198 with SMTP id uw6mr70785pbc.3.1334263448295; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni48995pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: mockturtle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A bit off topic... Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7061570.582.1334263322480.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynej18> References: <32395023.598.1334262527115.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yndc3> NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.37.92.40 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1334263448 10649 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2012 20:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:44:08 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <32395023.598.1334262527115.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yndc3> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=93.37.92.40; posting-account=9fwclgkAAAD6oQ5usUYhee1l39geVY99 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-04-12T13:42:02-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:28:47 PM UTC+2, mockturtle wrote: > ...but not as much. A kickstart project that could interest someone >=20 > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airshipambassador/wollstonecraft >=20 > (at least out of curiosity). An excerpt from the newsletter: >=20 > "Inspired by his own literature-loving daughter, Jordan Stratford's W= ollstonecraft is a work of historical fiction telling the story of two unsu= ng women: Ada Byron, the world's first computer programmer, and Mary Shelle= y, the world's first science fiction author. The resulting tale mixes math = and science with mystery and adventure, transforming Ada and Mary into youn= g detectives who must use their smarts to save the day. " I reply to myself... I just checked Wikipedia and I discovered that Mary Shelley was born in 179= 7, 18 years before Ada (who was borne in 1815), however in the kickstart pa= ge the two seem to be both little girls. =20 Oh well...