Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for October 2003

Oh, and differentcolors, I got your mail but left home without putting the information in any of my portable electronics…could you mail it again? Sorry to be so crap.

I love the smell of burning kerosene

(I tried to post this from my phone but that didn:t work…) Here I am in Narita airport, waiting for my flight to leave. It has been delayed so I:ve another 1.5 hours to wait…I get in around 2015 to Heathrow (if you:re reading this and know Damians phone number, can you call him and […]

We should escape now

During our project meeting this morning a siren, then a voice came over a loud speaker system I didn’t even know existed. It was an odd sound something like I imagine the Vogon announcement to earth would have been, all perfect clarity in a stern Japanese – something about a fire in the boiler room. […]

Conditions normal and you’re coming home

The plan, such as it is, looks like: Sat 25th – arrive Heathrow, 1730ish, head to Camberley Sun 26th – sunday roast in Luton, to Kent Wed 29th – head to Whitby Mon 3rd – to Oxford Wed 5th – back to Kent Fri 7th – Fly from Heathrow Theres a few bits I’ll make […]

So much for a five year plan…

An addendum. I want to go on a cruise which arrives at big cities at night. And I want to make one of those bizarre clocks where balls run around on little tracks taking different paths and making different music as they go – like the one in Roppongi, or the less three dimensional ones […]

Yankee go home

(How do I say, in polite Japanese, “I’m not a damned American”?) The Japanese don’t understand ceilings. Todays cafe had a lone bicycle chained to theirs. On the next table sat an irritatingly upper middle class father/son reunion. They were difficult enough to ignore with their holiday homes in France and hatred of the Welsh […]

EXTREME LJ – WHAT A GOOD IDEA, SHAME ABOUT THE UI ON THIS THING

While I’m at it, anyone heard of Dekoy? Somewhere along the way I picked up a promo for (or of) Heartwork, which contains five absolutely stonking EBM tracks (and one dodgy intro). They don’t sound particularly Japanese so I’m guessing they’re a German or US import of some kind.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=59722 Cute, but theres no instructions to make your own….