Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

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Lordi Cola Power dressing (geekery) “a road legal sofa capable of smashing the existing Fastest Furniture Land Speed Record of 87 mph” Roswell aliens arrested while painting aircraft The international central services toaster museum

Playing Marwood

This is a rare restricted custom post…please don’t discuss this with anyone other than me…I’m going away for a few days, I intend to be posting here while I’m away, can you SMS or phone me (+447970712888) if I seem to not be… (and, yes, I know thats a bit weird, but I’ll explain it […]

I’ve just eaten the first apple from my new tree. Admittedly it wouldn’t pass any supermarket quality control checks, but its all the more *real* for it.

We thought we’d never sing again, nor light the lamps with our laughter

Book review: Barb Wire by Neal Barrett Jr

This is a really cheap book. Its almost like they didn’t bother to proof read it. When was the last time you read a book with two chapter 11s? The story itself is quite disposable, generic sci-fi, it doesn’t have anything to recommend it, but equally, its not totally appalling. It doesn’t seem to correspond […]

Its a nice sound, its a happy sound and its not doing anybody any harm

Around every hour there is a weird little sound, a bit like pipes expanding or contracting, only more musical. I haven’t traced the source of the sound, I suspect it is computer generated but it doesn’t seem to correspond with any of them trying to tell me anything. Its not an hourly beeper because sometimes […]

What are you protesting? – Parliament Square, 31st Aug, 6pm, find a demonstration you believe in, if you’ve not already applied for yours. Come play with me Smarter than the Nokia battery meter Take it to the next level – Mengers sponge overdrive.

They take away our freedom in the name of liberty

“Our job is to not panic every time two Muslims stand together checking their watches” – go and read Bruces diatribe on handling terrorism…its what I wanted to say but didn’t have the words for. In other news I was greeted with a long face at the garage when I went to pick up my […]

Marketing for geeks This is not the Whitby generation you are looking for Cool ride (escapee from yesterdays vehicular links)