Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

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The signs you’ve been reading in the letters I can’t write

Back in Tokyo and its looking like its gonna be a while before I visit the UK again, so I figured now would be a good time to start writing real letters again. However, I managed to leave the file containing everyones addresses on my desktop on my PC in the UK, so mail me […]

Bah! I hate jetlag. I’ve gotten myself into a cycle of two small sets of sleep per night rather than one big chunk like I’m used to – three hours when I get in from work waking up at around 11pm, just after all the useful restaurants and cafes have closed, and three hours from […]

Sex aid causes bomb scare

Back to work yesterday (or was it today? I’m still too jetlagged to work that out) to find that practically speaking nothing has happened since I left. Oh well.

24 Hours Later

I’m back in Tokyo after 24 hours of travelling. Got some sleep on the plane, fwiw. More details later.

Oh, and differentcolors, I got your mail but left home without putting the information in any of my portable electronics…could you mail it again? Sorry to be so crap.

I love the smell of burning kerosene

(I tried to post this from my phone but that didn:t work…) Here I am in Narita airport, waiting for my flight to leave. It has been delayed so I:ve another 1.5 hours to wait…I get in around 2015 to Heathrow (if you:re reading this and know Damians phone number, can you call him and […]

We should escape now

During our project meeting this morning a siren, then a voice came over a loud speaker system I didn’t even know existed. It was an odd sound something like I imagine the Vogon announcement to earth would have been, all perfect clarity in a stern Japanese – something about a fire in the boiler room. […]