Neil Hopcroft

John Updike – “America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.” (from motivationquote)

1. What did you last read? The contrarians guide to leadership – Steven Sample 2. What are you reading now? London Orbital – Iain Sinclair 3. What do you plan to read next? In the shadow of the American dream – David Weinarowicz or Intimacy and solitude – Stephanie Dowrick 4. What would you like […]

as when talking to a bunch of Californias who introduced themselves to me tonight – a truly surreal experience where while we were basically speaking the same language I understood everything they said but none of them understood a word of mine. Is my accent really that strong? We managed to establish a protocol where […]

Damn you all! You’ve all gone quiet. Anyone would think it was Christmas or something… I expect to find accounts of your Noel joys and horrors when I get back from Cyberage Voodoo…

…mostly clumsy. I started the day waking myself up by throwing coffee grounds over my bare feet. Joy. And have just dropped a bowl to land perfectly in my rice-cooker after folding itself into three pieces, knocking the lid closed on its way in. Neat. Work went well today, since we solved most of the […]

And while I’m still awake and posting, who invented the Porsche MPV? Please can someone explain to them that Porsche make sports cars (tacky yuppie sports cars, but so are most sports cars), they don’t make MPVs. There was one parked in the office car park today and its just wrong.

…full of Santas. Fluffy easter bunny santas, black clad top hat santas, kinky valentines day santas, pizza delivery santas (admittedly he was outside, on a pizza delivery sleigh^Wmoped). The vast majority of these santas will be female.