Poetical Science

Ada Lovelace is widely regarded as the first computer programmer, writing a program for Charles Babbage's (unbuilt) Analytical Engine. More importantly, in my opinion, she was the first to recognise, as far back as 1843, that numbers could be used for more than calculation - that arranged the right way, they …

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Ten Billion Years

We need more happy jolly tunes about the end of the world. Here's my attempt. Incidentally, we've only got 7.5 billion years really, so stop procrastinating and get that thing done.

(recording to come)

Lyrics and Chords:

[C][G][C]
[C][G][C]
[F][C][E7][Am]
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Trans Neptunian Objects

When I was small, there were nine planets. Now, there's only eight. But there's a lot of dwarf planets out there, so here's a song about Pluto's new found status among the Trans Neptunian Objects. It's really just an excuse to sing lots of dwarf planet names.

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When I Was In School

I learned lots of things at school. Some useful, some not so much. But there's some things I wished I'd learned much sooner, and that I wish some people would try to learn now. So here I am ranting about them.

Lyrics and Chords:

[C][G][C]
[C]

When [C …

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