Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

“Windows Ke- errr Command Key – Now built into every configuration of the new P-P-P-PowerBook G4 family: a crossed out windows key that now functions as a command key! Based on the original key, the new command key is just as annoying as the windows key. When you think you’re having fun in a game, […]

“The Banana Guard was designed…as a device to prevent banana trauma during transport” …though the FAQ does suggest some as yet unrealised potential for aftermarket additions…

Tidy suicides

Linkblast….

“Demonstrable anomalous gravitational effects reproducible in the laboratory, which reveal the prospect of anti-gravitational action, are discussed. It is shown that the theory does include features which can explain observed anti-gravitational effects.” – Of spinning tops and bumble bees… — “I will define our goal thus: by any means necessary, to render the Earth into […]

“We might as well race our squawk boxes until the dark clouds settle upon us all”

Tense shoulders. Can anyone in the Cambridge area recommend someone who could give me a massage to lighten them up a bit? Or suggest some other way to relax them?

“Khoshnu is not going to be charged with a crime but that she may have to pay for the search and destruction of her luggage, which could cost about $10,000″ What do you do when a passenger jokes about having a bomb in their luggage? Put the luggage on a plane but keep the passenger […]

stay behind the yellow lines, so that no one gets sucked up by passing trains

Weird day. Off to Hunstanton – pictures posted already – I’ve been meaning to get to the seaside since I got back last year. It was snowing for a good chunk of the journey up there, but not much settling, sadly, I was hoping for some pretty countryside, but at least that meant the roads […]