Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Some questions from kixie:

1. What is your favourite movie, and why?
An easy one to start with – Pi. Its so intense, its about a mathematician, its about paranoia, and the soundtrack rocks.

2. What do you think has had the biggest impression on your personality, as you were growing up?
Going to an all-boys school, it helped make me thoroughly incompetant at dealing with people.

3. If you could kill someone – sure that no one will ever find out – would you do it?
I’d like to think the answer was no. But I don’t think it is. It would depend a lot on who, what they’d done and whether it was going to make the world a better place without them. There certainly isn’t anyone on my list at the moment.

4. Where did you take your happiest holiday, and why was it the happiest?
Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber – the Taubertal festival. We drove across Germany in Petes little NX, four of us squished in to his poor car with camping kit for the weekend. There were some great bands, great people, great weather, great scenary. I think the reason it made such an impression was that it was my first european road trip, I love life on the road and this trip opened up another dimension to what that life could be like….I’ve not been over the water for a while (what with being on the other side of the world and everything), gonna have to get over there for a road trip again.

5. What is your favourite food?
And finishing off with a difficult one. Theres a lot of food I like, so it would be difficult to single out a particular thing as being better than anything else. Of course it depends very much on how it is cooked and who else is there. But high on the list have to be apple pie, the sort with cinnamon and raisins in, and good vanilla ice cream.

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You know the drill, pose five questions for me, or ask me to ask you five.


Categories: Memories.

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10 comments

    • neilh

      You’re so difficult to write good questions for…but I’ll try:

      1. Of all the places you have lived, which feels most like home? Why?
      2. Has your life (so far) turned out as you expected it would when you were younger?
      3. You experimented with internet dating some time ago – do you think it was a worthwhile thing for you to do?[0] What did you learn from it?
      4. I read in New Scientist recently that halucinagens are making a comeback in a serious medical context, what are your thoughts on this? Is it going to affect the work you do? Or is it NS making up poppycock to sell their rag?
      5. Howcome you’ve got so many fabulous friends? Where did you find them all?

      [0] This has a more personal subquestion[1]…but I’ll ask that when I see you sometime
      [1] As in ‘relates to me’ rather than ‘details about you’

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  2. toripink

    ok – I have some questions *hehehee*

    1. If you could be any woman in the world, who would you be and why?
    2. Coffee or tea?
    3. If you could have done anything else as a job what would it have been?
    4. Have you ever really regretted a decision?
    5. Are you happy?

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    • neilh

      1. You have been living outside the UK for some time now, how do you find it when you come back to visit? Is it the same country that you left? Or is it somewhere different?
      2. Given basic needs of food and shelter, which would be a more appealing place to live, and why? – a city, a village, a boat, a remote island, somewhere else?
      3. What would make you come back to the UK? What would make you stay where you are?
      4. What are your goals? What are you doing toward acheiving them?
      5. Which book or film do you feel greatest affinity with?

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  4. scifilittlemy

    1. Did you/do you read comics? if so what was/is your favourite?
    2. What record were listening to when you realised you were different. Love, Peace and Bananas :)?
    3. Hot countries or cold countries?
    4. What are you passionate about?
    5. What must a holiday include for you to make a good one?

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    • neilh

      1. Do you have anywhere you would consider to be ‘home’? Of the places you’ve lived which feels most like home?
      2. Where do you see your career heading? Are you going to carry on doing what you are doing now?
      3. What was your favorite subject at school?
      4. What is happening to the music scene in London? Are you still involved with things going on there?
      5. Do you have any plans for travelling this year? Where?

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    • neilh

      1. What is the weirdest thing about living here?
      2. Where do you want to visit?
      3. What was your education like? Did you learn anything useful at school?
      4. If you were Prime Minister for the day, what law would you change? Why?
      5. What was the last live show you saw? Would you go again?

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