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Blog: Life of Sophie

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    Never thought i would read something about Byron in this Forum...On of my all time favourite writers. I'll never Forget this sentence:

    "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after."

    I think i own every book he ever wrote, including an original Version, 100 years old, of Don Juan. :lol:
     
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    Sophie is achieving some success in raising the tone of this place! ;)
     
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    I've just discovered that the name Saoirse is pronounced, "Sur-Sha"! Who would have guessed? :cool:
     
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    I've been missing, it's a four letter word thing = work.
    & the site being blocked here and i've been out in the evening with pre-Christmas drinking.

    Love that! "Mad, bad and dangerous to know", i love Byron (and boy could he party) ok he was not the greatest of Father material.
    He abandoned his wife and baby (his wife making sure he'd never seen his daughter) and went onto a sad end.

    Ada was amazing and so far ahead not only of her time in the 19th Century, but pretty much for most of the 20th century.
    Yes she is one of my heroes, and yet in her time could only show her genius via a talented (but much less talented than Ada)
    man, Charles Babbage...

    https://www.famousscientists.org/ada-lovelace/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...uter-programmer-forgotten-women-a8557416.html

    That Ada wrote in the early 19th Century the foundation of computer programming is incredible.
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    Like her Father, Ada had a sad end, dying tragically young (and addicted to gambling, some say in frustration to not being
    able to fully develop her skills) there's a fascinating connection to her over a hundred years later to Alan Turing, who as a young
    man had read Ada's work.

    Turing was the man at Bletchley Park in England during the World War who build the Colossus computer which broke the Nazi's Enigma code.
    Using the basis of Ada Lovelace's computer programming.

    Thank you!!! But i'm sure i can bring it down again in my "Ask Sophie" thread like we did in the Summer and would confirm all
    my Sister's fears about me lol.

    I could say Saoirse all day and all night to her if she let me.
    [​IMG] [​IMG]

    Meanwhile
    Going to Dublin this weekend, sadly not with Saoirse.

    Love this, Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Saoirse Ronan in one post:)

    "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after." Yes!!!!!
     
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    Excellent! I've missed you, Sophie!
     
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    Well at least he inspired Friedrich Nitsche, Edgar Allan Poe, William Turner and Alexander Puschkin, and last but not least Mary Shelley ;)

    In May 1816, Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, and their son travelled to Geneva with Claire Clairmont. They planned to spend the summer with the poet Lord Byron, whose recent affair with Claire had left her pregnant.The party arrived at Geneva on 14 May 1816, where Mary called herself "Mrs Shelley". Byron joined them on 25 May, with his young physician, John William Polidori, and rented the Villa Diodati, close to Lake Geneva at the village of Cologny; Percy Shelley rented a smaller building called Maison Chapuis on the waterfront nearby.They spent their time writing, boating on the lake, and talking late into the night.

    "It proved a wet, ungenial summer", Mary Shelley remembered in 1831, "and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house".Sitting around a log fire at Byron's villa, the company amused themselves with German ghost stories, which prompted Byron to propose that they "each write a ghost story".Unable to think of a story, young Mary Godwin became anxious: "Have you thought of a story? I was asked each morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative."During one mid-June evening, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". It was after midnight before they retired, and unable to sleep, she became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the grim terrors of her "waking dream", her ghost story:

    I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

    She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818. She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".The story of the writing of Frankenstein has been fictionalised several times and formed the basis for a number of films.

    In September 2011, the astronomer Donald Olson, after a visit to the Lake Geneva villa the previous year, and inspecting data about the motion of the moon and stars, concluded that her waking dream took place "between 2am and 3am" 16 June 1816, several days after the initial idea by Lord Byron that they each write a ghost story.
     
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    :lol:
     
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    Thank you!!! I love connections!!! "It proved a wet, ungenial summer" that Mary Shelley wrote of in 1831 was as a result of the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia that had confined Lord Byron’s party indoors.

    So no voclanic eruption in Indonesia, maybe no "Frankenstein" and no Lord Byron no Ada Lovelace, no foundation of Computer programming that would go onto help Alan Turing help contrust his Colossus computer.
    Thank you!!!

    Work Christmas party tonight... oh dear.
     
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    Don't enjoy it too much, lest you do or say something that you would never want to your higher ups:booze::puke:
     
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    I guess Saoirse must surely have "arrived" on the big stage, I saw her advertising a perfume on TV this evening! :rolleyes:
     
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    I lead a glamorous life at parties, here I am in the ladies loo replying to you.

    It really confused them tonight, I arrived at the party tonight with a girl & a guy as my partners, my wifey & boyfie.
     
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    Don't take dedication to your blog too far! :)
     
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    :lol:
     
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    Now that is dedication lol.

    And that last part is gonna make them go:naughty: every time they see you now:lol::tup2:
     
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    It seems to be one of the few places i can get on the site on my phone now, i keep getting the "This Site is not Secure" & refuses to connect?
    They probably thought that anyway.
    [​IMG]
    I was the girl who took another girl as her partner to her prom & got banned from it.

    Meanwhile
    Office is really quite this morning after last nights Work Christmas Party.
    I meanwhile i am fine, all hail the power of Diet Coke & Banana!

    It's freezing in London these last two days, but then go figure, its Winter.

    Going to Dublin for the weekend, its meant to be deluge all day Saturday, will have to retire to a pub all day.
    Oh well..
     
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    Reflushing? :rolleyes:

    My outside thermometer reads 5.8°C.
     
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    I just did a Donald.. Reflushing

    [​IMG]
    Highs of 4 lows of -1c.
     
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    Awesome:D:headbang:you definitely would have been a friend/partner in crime of mine in high school if I hadn't kept getting kicked out:mutual:
     
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    I was escorted out of the Prom, i gave it ten minutes and went back in via the fire exit.
     
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    :cool: my point stands, you were like the female Aussie/English version of me. :cool2:
     
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