I heard today was Lovelace Day, and I immediately wondered why 1970’s adult film actress Linda Lovelace should have a day named after her. After the film that made her famous in 1972, she did become an anti-pornography advocate in the 1980s and beyond. I guess that’s good, but getting a whole day for that? That seemed like a stretch to me.

Then I saw the full name is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate the achievements of 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace and all women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). That’s kind of cool and makes sense. Women in STEM rock. There’s not much more for me to do than apologize profusely in a deeply throaty voice and ask, “Am I a bad guy?”

Editor’s Note: Maybe not. I can’t believe I am standing up for this idiot, but Countess Ada Lovelace and Linda Lovelace are somewhat connected through computer languages. From this guy’s blog, we learn “Years ago when I was a university professor, I remember talking about the Linda programming language for a few minutes in a graduate computer science class. Linda is not an acronym. It’s named after a woman named Linda Lovelace. When Linda was being invented, the Ada programming language was new and the topic of much interest in computer science. Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, a woman who was an assistant to Charles Babbage. Ada is often incorrectly identified as having written the first sort-of computer program for Babbage’s hypothetical computer. Anyway, the inventors of Linda named it after Linda Lovelace, a movie star who was the subject of much interest at the time.” I don’t know if that is all true or not. But as for Jim, in conclusion … Idiot? Yes. Bad Guy? Probably not.