Neil Hopcroft

Lordi Cola

Power dressing (geekery)

“a road legal sofa capable of smashing the existing Fastest Furniture Land Speed Record of 87 mph”

Roswell aliens arrested while painting aircraft

The international central services toaster museum

This is a rare restricted custom post…please don’t discuss this with anyone other than me…I’m going away for a few days, I intend to be posting here while I’m away, can you SMS or phone me (+447970712888) if I seem to not be…

(and, yes, I know thats a bit weird, but I’ll explain it in person when I next see you if you’re that curious)

I’ve just eaten the first apple from my new tree.

Admittedly it wouldn’t pass any supermarket quality control checks, but its all the more *real* for it.

Some days I wish I wasn’t such a klutz. Maybe one day I’ll be able to express myself without sounding creepy and stupid.

But in the mean time, please tell me when I do, and explain why, and I’ll try to do it less often.

We thought we’d never sing again, nor light the lamps with our laughter

Around every hour there is a weird little sound, a bit like pipes expanding or contracting, only more musical. I haven’t traced the source of the sound, I suspect it is computer generated but it doesn’t seem to correspond with any of them trying to tell me anything. Its not an hourly beeper because sometimes happens five minutes apart and sometimes way longer than an hour.

Heading up to Bob & Louises party on saturday I had a weird loneliness, its not something that happens very often, but right then I really needed a passsenger, not necessarily someone to talk, just someone to be there, someone who wanted me take them to the party. Sometimes I find it hard to motivate myself into doing things, if there are other people around who want to do things theres more reason to do them.

Still, the party itself was quite fun – catching up with Bob & Louise was really good, I’ve not seen them to talk to properly for a long long time, but that didn’t seem to matter. And there were a few other people I’ve not seen for ages too. I’m going to have to be a bit more active with London people – though late night things like this are a bit more irritating for me, having to drive across town because the trains stop at 11.

Then yesterday saw me head up to Oxford for stompyboots and purple_pens leaving Oxford party. Again good to catch up with people I’ve not seen for a long time. Not that I got much of a chance to talk to some of them. Its close enough to be able to get up there for the evening, so I’m hoping to keep in touch with them better now…although, of course, Penny and Kate will be elsewhere from next week.

What are you protesting? – Parliament Square, 31st Aug, 6pm, find a demonstration you believe in, if you’ve not already applied for yours.

Come play with me

Smarter than the Nokia battery meter

Take it to the next level – Mengers sponge overdrive.

“Our job is to not panic every time two Muslims stand together checking their watches” – go and read Bruces diatribe on handling terrorism…its what I wanted to say but didn’t have the words for.

In other news I was greeted with a long face at the garage when I went to pick up my car this afternoon – he was worried about charging me so much (150 pounds) for a car that doesn’t have much of a useful life left. But then I spoke to him about it, and he was fairly upbeat about the mechanics, its just the peripherals (like brakes) that will stop it getting through its next MOT (minor leaky *something*, rusty discs, ABS sensors, etc, nothing unsafe but all things that’ll need attention soonish)…he relaxed a bit when I said that was December. Maybe I should get in as many miles as I can before then, to get the most out of it, but its not going to last forever.

Marketing for geeks

This is not the Whitby generation you are looking for

Cool ride (escapee from yesterdays vehicular links)