Neil Hopcroft

Why didn’t I find this while I was living in Oxford :(

On show, the best from Dennis, Bristol, AEC reliance among others. No Routemasters as far as I can see from the list, unless they had another name too?

Today, I attempt to tackle my email and ljcomment backlog, normal lack of service will be resumed shortly…

Die Fabrik on thursday, which makes a bit more sense if you say it in a german accent, I’m sure, was an interesting mix of a load of music I’d like to get to know more about. We arrived, apparently, three quarters of the way through a note (or was it a chord?). But things soon livened up and there were some decent slabs of angry noise served up by DJ Durge, while the ambient end of the range isn’t so much my thing.

Last night I met with Tracey, who is over from Tokyo for one of her friends weddings, we went for a curry with a few of the other guests. Poor thing wasn’t feeling too good after spending too much time flying and not enough sleeping, so she had to leave us to it. Which was a little strange, since I have nothing in common with her friends except knowing her (nice enough people, but they’ve got other things on their minds apart from getting to know some near random stranger, so I make my escape at the earliest feasible point). Upset I didn’t get much of a chance to talk to her, hoping she’s had a good day at the wedding today and can find some time for me tomorrow.

“As of last week, officials were contemplating charges against (geocacher) David Cook. They suggested they might “tally the cost” for the mobilization effort…When a geeky game causes such paranoia, it seems to me the terrorists have already won“

“No matter what Senators or the staff did all that would come on their computers were hard core gay pictures.”

and, as far as I can work out, completely unrelated

“If you ever thought carrots were boring, check out their new palette”

(both worksafe)

Rod logic: “A square one centimeter on a side—about one-quarter the area of a postage stamp—could hold a trillion bits of information. That’s equal to more than a thousand CD-ROMs, or the contents of a bookshelf that is one mile long.”

Snowcrash: “Warwick didn’t publicise the IP address of his arm in case someone hijacked it”

Welcome to the future.

“They disintegrated explosively and bits of chocolate and shredded marshmallow splattered all over the windscreens and instruments panels…thereafter marshmallows were banned.”

“strangely-attractive bean-shaped drives with little Disney charms attached“

Gods, I hate being socially awkward….apart from the associated embarrassment the Calling was good, hope all others involved have mostly recovered now…

I’d forgotten just how horrible *smokey* atmospheres can be, somehow it was really noticable this week but I don’t think it was any worse than normal. Accidentally danced to Nick Cave and Ministry, but I don’t have the energy for that kind of thing these days.

Today has been spent mining into the paperwork mountain, attempting to yield the most urgent pieces for action. Theres still a whole bunch to go but at least I’ve proved I can make a dent in it.

“This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered”