Horror, Sleaze and Trash.

"Babbage was a strange man who disliked Plato,

but really hated street musicians.

He was pestered by neighbours who hired musicians

to play outside his house and when he went out

he was often followed by children who abused him."

or

Babbage once counted all the broken panes of glass of a factory, publishing in 1857 a "Table of the Relative Frequency of the Causes of Breakage of Plate Glass Windows": 14 of 464 were caused by "drunken men, women or boys". His distaste for commoners ("the Mob") included writing "Observations of Street Nuisances" in 1864, as well as tallying up 165 "nuisances" over a period of 80 days; he especially hated street music. He was also obsessed with fire, once baking himself in an oven at 265°F (130°C) for four minutes "without any great discomfort" and to "see what would happen". Later, he arranged to be lowered into Mount Vesuvius in order to view molten lava for himself.

so close to genious . com

that he may as well have been retarded . com