Crocheted Bane Mask – This would’ve been GREAT to enter in the Easter Show…

The Food Lab: Foolproofing the Perfect Rack of Lamb – Oooh, I want to try this. DIY sous vide!

Best Dad Ever hacks Donkey Kong so his daughter can play as a girl. LOVE IT.

Retrenched!
So that’s the big news around here. Made redundant. Laid off. But “retrenched” sounds so much better, don’t you think? I’m going back to the trenches. It’s cool; I was actually quite relieved when they told me, and I wasn’t really surprised either. We didn’t get a couple jobs that had been planned, and there hasn’t been much for me to do in terms of my actual job title (Senior Business Analyst). So I spent the past several weeks doing QA, writing documentation, and worrying about when the axe would fall. Turns out it was this past Friday. But knowing is always better than not knowing, and I feel as if a stressful weight has been lifted. I’d already been sending out my CV to recruiters, and I’ve had a chat with someone at my DREAM JOB (which I’m not going to tell you about because it’ll totally jinx it). But I’m always up for new leads and opportunities. Here’s my LinkedIn page if you want to have a look. I’m obviously interested in Business Analyst roles, but preferably I’d like to get into Product Management if I can. Thanks in advance for tips and commiseration!

The Snook actually said to me: “They should have waited till next week. Then you could have a trophy for “Laid off on birthday” to go next to your “Laid off at Christmas” one.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Holy crap, RoaldDahlFans.com got linked on Reddit! That was a fun traffic spike. I hope they liked the site.

Please reconsider the use of the term “butthurt” – MetaTalk – Fascinating discussion. Personally, I hate that phrase and I definitely associate it with gamer culture (and their misogynistic usage of “rape”). This is possibly because the first person I ever heard use it was a bully I used to work with who also called things “gay” and thought goatse* references were the height of humour. It’s an ugly word. However, I have seen it in other contexts, most incongruously over on some Ravelry forums. The meaning has been watered down of course, but it still seems to be favoured by gleeful trolls. I would be happy to see it used less on the Internet.

* If you don’t know what that is, I don’t recommend googling it. It was a really offensive picture and a lot of COOL INTERNET BROS thought tricking people into viewing it was the height of humour.