Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
That to move in different spheres will bring the changes we most fear
Its been a long week, with far too much heat in it, I was hoping this afternoons storm would calm things a little, but we’re already back to the humidity.
Tuesday saw me meeting up with some of the old Symbian crowd, who were out celebrating shipping something. Good to catch up with them again, though it seems not much has changed since I left.
Then last night was the moved Calling, the Kambar had been booked for the tuesday so the Calling moved to Thursday, for one night only. Clubs make so much more sense on thursday nights than tuesday – it only wrecks one day not the whole week. It was an odd night, far too hot for dancing, but the music was better than normal. The heat wasn’t stopping everyone, indeed, people were showing rather more of themselves than normal, showing their scars rather more than I felt comfortable with – they’re not all accidents, are they?
The heat reminded me of the Tokyo clubbing experience, where the club is in a wonderfully air conditioned building, making it comfortable to dance. Then, at the end of the night, you leave into the humid heat and the sunrise, the sky like something from Gibsons future.
Compelling, like a car crash. Maybe thats just wishful thinking.
This year’s challenge: covert fingerprinting
YOURNAME@mullet.com. Let your email address say something personal about YOU! …and while we’re at it, you always wanted Midget Mullets, didn’t you? …or how about Mullet Haiku
Traffic cones in popular culture
…and now its time for me to go to sleep, before the internet gets any worse.
Yellow
Everything sounds yellow
Why are they demolishing the world, its only 8-oclock in the morning
I want to be asleep
(my thoughts on waking up, coherency achieved in 1hr30, not bad for a tuesday)
“SO HIS ROCK AND ROLL DREAMS COULD NEVER START
AND ALL HE HAD LEFT WAS BIG HAIR AND A BROKEN HEART.”
Feeling a bit stupid today – I think I must’ve spent too much time in the sun yesterday, wandering around the French market in Ely. Not quite sure howcome I caught the sun so bad, I spent loads of days under the blistering sun in Tokyo without any such problems. Dammit.
Still, its not all bad news – congratulations due to ladycat for taking a photo of me that I don’t completely hate.
Myra is engaged on rail
“The club has been very well managed with Michael Spooner in charge and I am inclined to steal his ideas as they worked so well. Don Humphries was the highest scorer with 758 points for 2 games. Phew.”
Don’t you love village news-sheets?
“Our demographic data on a little strip of laminate
Could be available to those who’d pay just to examine it”
Flash sillyness, and watch out for the pants. Worksafe.
Linkblast
Чернобыль. Нечаянный фоторепортаж, ч.2
…some beautiful photos of urban decay
Charlie Stross transcends again – to the creative commons this time…
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online.
“The Heads Up Display (HUD) unit seems like a frivolous item, but I found myself enjoying the digital display, especially for the XM Radio station display. When the GXP is put into TAPShift mode, the speedo display gets smaller and the HUD broadcasts what gear you’re in.”