Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

He is not seeing pretty visions, he is seeing monsters

“Last Friday I went to the mall to be a Part of the Problem, on this, the busiest shopping day of the year….I went to Dillards and bitched the lady out for not having the right color of perfume! “My girlfriend wants blue, dammit, blue!!” (I don’t even have a girlfriend…)” The site is full […]

Joined up thinking

It worried me last night. It seems I’m getting worse at holding together a stream of concious thought. I keep going off at tangents, getting distracted, forgetting what I was talking about. In some ways this is good, it makes context switching easier when I’m trying to do lots of things at once. But it […]

“A Danish vendor said Thursday that it has developed a system to create Bluetooth-enabled cows” Some extensions to Service Discovery Protocol needed here, I fear, maybe a milking profile, beef profile, or perhaps an all-in-one bovine profile… …and while we’re on the subject of cows, which came first Bovril or Bovril?

French “…car industry…is now nothing more than a supplier of quality satanic automobiles to the Lizard Alliance” Thankfully my Laguna is too jaded by its life in the UK to attempt such kidnap attempts.

http://www.cutelittlekittens.com/ …thousands of them

Phew, what a struggle…finally got a livejournal server running here… (mod_perl behaves so much better when you don’t install mandrakes enterprise class apache variant) now for curry…

“So, why did I create a whole webpage about my motorcycle? It runs UNIX!” …and creates some fairly tedious videos of the journey to the Burrito store…it’d be potentially helpful in a crash, except I suspect the harddisk’ll get wiped out on the way down. Uncached solid state is the way to go.

46. LSD proof set – guide price 5 pounds

Today I went for a whistlestop tour of fenland auction houses – they were confused in Ely, the auction isn’t until saturday, viewing friday. So I explained I saw they said they were an auction house and wondered how it worked. Duly furnished with a catalogue I was sent on my way. There are some […]

Those of a scientific bent might be interested in the Cambridge Science Festival (but you probably already know about it)… I’m wondering about: – Bending the Rules: Small is Different – How to be an Inventor – The Science of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Neuropsychology and Conscious Vision – Victorian Steam Power […]

I woke up this morning to find a sticker saying “L4” on my chin, wondering if that was there while I was at the calling last night and everyone was too polite to say anything…?