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14 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Okay, a question for electronics Twitter.

My new library shelves will overlap my light switch. Now I COULD just fix the switch to the back of the shelves instead and leave a gap.

ORRR

Can someone think of a way I could make a "secret" switch that worked by tipping a fake book?
I should also say that I'm perfectly happy to pay CASH MONEY for someone with the right skills who wanted to make such a switch for me.
Acceptable fallback alternative: fake book where you flip open the spine to see the Switch.
UPDATE:

Some variation of this sounds perfect for my secret book light switch.

Allows me to leave the ORIGINAL switch in place, permanently turned on. Removing both the electrical and non-mechanical parts failure issues.

So how do I make this happen?

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15 Jul
Boris Johnson's press conferences/committee appearances make a lot more sense once you accept that he will literally say whatever he thinks will get him out of the room quick enough.
There's no grand plan to the shite he spouts in front of a camera or committee.

His staff's sole goal with their briefing notes is to try and channel him into making as few promises, and spouting as little bollocks as possible, before he makes his hasty exit.
It's why he visibly reverts to grumpy eton schoolboy mode the moment a follow up question is asked.

He gave you his hopefully distracting answer already. HOW VERY DARE YOU make him have to try and think of another one, delaying his exit even longer.
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15 Jul
Me whenever I find someone has added a picture of their dog, instead of themselves, to their university staff profile.
Students don't pay £9k a year to be taught by your dog, and companies looking to invest in your research want to invest in you, not your dog.

Perfectly fine to have no photo at all. Lot's of valid reasons not to.

But no dogs, cats, fish, hamsters, funny doodles by your kid etc
Corollary: ALL Faculties should provide access to a drop-in photography session, once a year to get a nice headshot done.

It's not fair to make your staff do it at home/their office, in front of a plain wall.

ANY human photographed this way inevitably looks like a sex offender.
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14 Jul
Someone on this street is blasting out Bryan Adam's "Everything I Do" on continuous repeat.

I'm as yet unsure as to whether this is the best or worst thing ever.
Oh wait. It's that one he did with Sting and Rod Stewart from the Musketeer film now.

Also on repeat it seems.

I'm honestly not sure how to read this, emotionally.
CHANGE UP.

It's now Bon Jovi, "Dead or Alive"

Which, to be fair, is a belter.
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13 Jul
Since I seem to be in a tunnels Twitter mood today, here's a picture I grabbed of the Tunnelers' Memorial in France.

It's relatively hard to find, but is near Bethune. /1 Small memorial set next to a cornfield.
It's somewhat obscurely located, because it sits above the place where William Hackett of the 254th Tunnelling Company died, earning a posthumous Victoria Cross. soldier with impressive moustache
Hackett was part of a mixed team that were working on a tunnel gallery when a German counter-mine exploded, bringing the tunnel down on the men inside.

After 20 hours of frantic digging, those outside the blast range managed to dig a tiny tunnel through to the trapped survivors.
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13 Jul
I took this picture in the (mostly) unexplored tunnel network beneath the Western Front back in 2019.

I love it, because it really highlights that there is very little difference between the average teenager in 1915 and a teenager today.

Not all Tommies were sad dreamy poets 😆 shot of tunnel wall with "Jock the Cunt" written o
You would also not believe the amount of scribbled cocks and hairy balls you find scrawled on the walls down there. They're everywhere.

They tend not to the shine the lights on those bits in the tours you can do of open tunnel sections, or in museums mockups.

Can't imagine why!
You find more poignant stuff down there as well. These are places soldiers paused, sometimes just for a moment, before attacking German trenches.

They knew they might die. So they just wanted to leave a sign they were there. Like this kid, from 14 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. Wall inscription in tunnel. Handwritten address on the wall.
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12 Jul
This is not wrong, but it also depends on the context I think. And is worth digging into.

Most of my talks are aimed at managers/execs these days. So I do them to work in two formats:

1) Deck-only. The "LinkedIn audience"
2) Audio-only. The "also doing emails audience" /1
To do that (as talked about elsewhere) I try and take a 20/80 rule.

You will have the conclusions or lessons you need to take, on screen, on each slide. Interspaced with key bits of evidence. That's the 20. It's there for the deck-flickers. /2
During the talk, I will read these out and then fill them out with the FULL context and reasoning.

That's ultimately the meat of the lecture/talk and the added-value you get from watching it live or listening/watching back again later as audio. /3
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