Neil Hopcroft

Anyone going to make it to the Interlock gig in Peterborough on thursday?

“TWO Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after duelling with lightsabres made by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol“

…was what their van should have said – they were laying some high-friction red asphalt on the road by one of the crossing points in Milton. I’m not sure that ‘Caution: white-lining’ really gives out that much better a message, though. Today I crossed the river and walked to the next village east – Horningsea. […]

A friend of mine has some Apple][ disks she’d like to read – does anyone have the necessary equipment to do it? Or some clues as to a good way of retrieving the data. (I assume they’re 5.25 single density, but I’ve asked her to fax a copy over just in case…)

Friday night was Chains on Velvet in Norwich. The journey to Norwich from here shouldn’t be that difficult – its only an hours drive and we were going after all the traffic should have finished…..but we hadn’t counted on the A11 being closed, or the badly balanced traffic lights at RAF Lakenheath. We spent 30 […]

Newton: But, right, if they go on forever, then my shiny gravity means that the Universe will collapse under its own weight. Newton’s flatmate: Seriously, Isaac, no more opium on your cornflakes. A brief brief history of time – doing for science what the Reduced Shakespear Company did for culture.

It will have a sign saying it is “on loan from the British Museum“

More new directions in computer generated music …I particularly like the photon clarinet, which I think would make a perfect theremin substitute for simonsatori and the Rome Burns crew.