Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

I got a mail to my power-magic.com address today from a guy called Merlin. Shame it was spam, I’d have considered hiring him otherwise….


Categories: Memories.

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    • neilh

      Good grief, I don’t remember! That was me brainstorming a year ago, I should take it all down and start again, shouldn’t I? Seeing as things might be kicking off again soon.

      When I’m back in the UK I’ll get a porta-whiteboard, sling it in the back of the car and go brainstorm with anyone who’ll listen. One day I’ll stumble across the next big thing, and until then I’ll have fun with the fumes from the markers…

      (…ponders the possibility of getting a white van…)

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      • venta

        (…ponders the possibility of getting a white van…)

        Then you wouldn’t need the whiteboard, you could just scribble your ideas directly onto the van. When you discovere the Next Big Thing, you won’t even have to get your van painted up to advertise :)

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        • neilh

          In fact, I think you may just have discovered the next big thing…there must be a market for adhoc brainstorming equipment for those serious road warriors out there.

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        • neilh

          Oh, yes, I thought that NS article looked familiar…

          Hmmm, maybe I’ll need to buy a barn to put all my junk in….I’ve got quite enough already so the only reason for having a van would be to use it as a whiteboard….(but nothing as impressive as your collection!)

          Wales would certainly be within scope, if there were somewhere there to brainstorm with? Oh, thinking of which, do you know ? I think you guys would get along…

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          • jarkman

            You *could* put a bit of your junk in your van, I guess.

            Yes, we can brainstorm here. That could be fun. There’s even a whiteboard, along with the usual collection of scruffy computers and aircraft scrap.

            No, I haven’t had the honour. Perhaps I will.

          • neilh

            Soon, I hope. My current contract finishes May 20th or something, but it’ll likely get extended for a month, maybe longer if I can pursuade them to send me to Finland, but if so I’ll be heading back to the UK for a bit.

  4. jarkman

    Well, I’ve never been there. I just have this image of a scattering of stone cottages and a blur of motorbikes and a lot of sea.

    Fortunately, they sell an awful lot of bits off as scrap to nice men who collect it into heaps and wait for people like me to turn up. Their idea of ‘completely useless’ is a good match for my idea of ‘lovely lovely lovely’.

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