Derek has given up Time Travels for reasons of practical expedience and to devote more time to a particularly important project. Episode #1 of an intermittent series on Surrealism, Technology, and Science.
20 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Spagetti is an astoundingly good way of describing Entropy. October 22nd 1983, Big Blue Desk Diary from the Central Electricity Supply Board, and the cramped handwriting seems to be a recipe for spaghetti with a very basic sauce. It makes no immediat...
17 Sep 2021 6 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Dereks Notes. From The Central Electricity Generating Board Diary for 1987. Notes Written on pages for October 15th to October 21st. Derek's Notes were always written in a cramped, but legible, handwriting. He preferred the security of a sturdy noteb...
15 Sep 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Writing "Derek Gives Up On Time Travel" was a little bit exhausting. So I gave it a few days before writing this. In part it was exhausting trying to keep up with all of the threads running through it, of which there are several. There are ideas...
8 Sep 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Talking about Derek is akin to talking about myself in the Third Person. Derek says this. Derek says that. Derek says another thing. In a caravan in Wales in a mirror, I can see Derek staring back at me. Head shaved to a violently lurking stubble. Fa...
7 Sep 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Derek claims he was just following orders. Superior orders. Which, as anyboy who has visited 1948 knows, is not a great defence. Nor has it been a great defence since Pietro di Hagenbach, also known as Pierre d’Archambaud, also known as Pierre d'Aque...
5 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
When asked where Leeds is, Derek tends to reply in the county of West Yorkshire. When challenged further, Derek falls into a swaying, lilting cadence: Horsforth, Morley, Rothwell, Otley, Wetherby, Pudsey, Beeston, Seacroft,Armley, Farnley, Headingley...
4 Sep 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Derek has always had the gift of the gab. Since he was a small boy he was able to spin a tale. Derek, for some reason, mislaid the £100 he had in his hands on 31 May 1979 and then blamed the mugging on someone with a vintage 1977 mohican. The clues w...
3 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Derek was quite convinced that Cryptochrono, a cryptocurrency for Time Travellers, was an astoundingly clever idea. To begin with, the Ledger was distributed out across space time. This was, Derek, assured me for the secuirty of the assets. When I as...
2 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Derek often refuses to reveal details of an anecdote for reasons of blockchain security. This is not a great issue in the normal course of events. But. But. Sometimes, when Derek is attempting to organise something it can be vexing. Simple acts such...
1 Sep 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah
Derek can be incredibly forgiving. Many of the problems of Time Travel are caused by petty anger issues, Derek opines. Being so angry with someone that you decide to pop back a few decades and assassinate them can result in the death of your grandpar...
