Neil Hopcroft

[Read aloud to Adelle] Virtual Light by William Gibson I’m really enjoying rereading Gibsons works, this one doesn’t have quite the same ground breaking feel as Neuromancer. It is set in in a similar dystopia where society has fractured with the extinction of the middle class. The poor get by living in shanty towns built […]

We found a deserted chess club in the Kulturehuset by Sergels Torg.

We popped in to Tullgarns Slott for lunch on the way to the airport – it is worthy of a longer visit sometime.

Outside Ytterjärna kyrka is a rune stone. Sö345“A … …in × þinsa × at × kai(r)… … …-n * eR * e[n-a]þr × ut – × kr…”“B … …roþur × …”“C … … raisa : …”“A … [stæ]in þennsa at GæiR… … [Ha]nn eR æn[d]aðr ut [i] Gr[ikkium].”“B … [b]roður …”“C … [let] ræisa …”“… this stone […]

The town of Upplands Väsby is mostly a commuter town these days, though it does still house the Marabou chocolate factory. A factory complete with peculiar repetative sounds like those I imagined coming from Charlies chocolate factory. There is a sculpture garden between the factory and the railway line.

To the north of Edsberg Slott, and Edsviken lake is the lake of Norrviken.

Hammerby Sluss connects Hammerby Sjö and Lake Mälaren.

[Audiobook] Skunkworks by Ben R Rich I chose this book because I wanted to learn more about the Skunkworks, the secretive Lockheed R&D works based in Burbank. Ben Rich became the leader of the Skunkworks after Kelly Johnsons retirement – this book recounts stories of his time there. The character of the place changed with […]