Neil Hopcroft

Randomly I stumbled across traction action, a spirit and a general eaten by a tiger (all worksafe).

‘A good test is how long it takes to find a hardware shop. If its more than ten minutes walk, an area is beyond the point of no return. You end up using olives instead of screws. ‘

Scientists, muppets, the lot of ’em. “I’m not sure that Dr Honeydew is quite the role model we would be looking at for a responsible scientist”

“mullet – i’d like you better if we slept together” – this has got to be the internet equivalent of rubbernecking, I was searching for the name of the band on the Vice City soundtrack who did the “I’d like you better if we slept together” song, damned earworm…Romeo Voids “Never say never” I think, […]

Lego gaming, Renegade Bricks…this is a bit more like it: There are two ways to play with the models: * The Respectful Way: When playing the game, you can leave the ship models untouched and just record damage on the baseplates. * The Messy Way: Break off pieces and scatter parts on the floor whenever […]

Todays mission was to find a suit, I’ve got a round of interviews starting Tuesday (any Cambridge people about lunchtime/afternoon? surje?) and, as yet, no armour. “I was after a sensible three piece for everyday use, can you show me where they are please?”, “I’m sorry we don’t carry any three pieces any more”…the story […]

(further in a series of Neil-has-too-much-time-on-his-hands[0] links, I’ll stop soon, once the novelty of proper connectivity wears off) …I thought the Japanese were strange with their complete lack of fear of poncy umbrellas, but the Irish are taking it to the next node… [0] and a tax form that really should be filed quite soon

Sorting out things happening over the next few months, is anyone going to either of these wireless conferences?

“The LEGO Group, specifically, is especially disapproving of these kinds of things” …but this seems a little too battalions-of-orcs-and-elves-fighting-on-a-battlefield for my liking, there must be some games out there that involve using lego for its intended purpose. Something a bit more like these, but more like a proper strategy game. Any ideas anyone? Oh, and […]

Tough on goth “The problem is when kids go whole-hog with the look, then it takes on a sort of dark-side symbolism,” she said. “And it upsets parents, it upsets kids and it upsets teachers. This is a place to go to school, and to be a kid. And I don’t want kids being afraid […]