Managed to install Spotify on my Ubuntu machine at home. I feel like Angelina Jolie in Hackers.
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…
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Shared today on Twitter
Bunless salmon burger with salad and caponata. Very tasty! #paleo http://t.co/tMVIGsQkHf
@drkknits Yay! Have a wonderful trip. You are so lucky!
@randomknits Very nice!
I woke up in the 90’s, apparently. Babydoll dress and combat boots were screaming for a day out.
RT @loic: Living With Less. A Lot Less. – http://t.co/uEJAMDEZNf // Aaaand the name “Seven” is ruined for me forever.
@drkknits For some reason I was just tempted to tweet a very crude, very funny quote from Clerks at you…
@drkknits I always get the full-body see-through scanner. BECAUSE I’M TOTES HOT AND THEY WANT A PIECE OF THIS.
@ozgamer Happy belated birthday! All the best people are Pisceans. Right, @kunaal84? 🙂
@VenessaHunt @chrisgander “NO DAD, WHAT ABOUT YOU?!”
@drkknits It’s a little known fact that the knitting needle ban was the fault of the Easter Show judges. Be sure to mention I said that.
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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!
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Please reconsider the use of the term “butthurt” – MetaTalk
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.
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Shared today on Twitter
Salsa stocks are gettin’ low… (at @costcotweets) http://t.co/ZBCQGIBjbE
Easter Show entries dropped off. Going by competition, I’m a shoe-in in every category. #knitvomit #yarnsnob #suckithaters
“It’s a badge of pride not being able to navigate the M4. It means you’re not a bogan.”
Was really great to run into @AusVintageGrrl and @thisismywww at Broadway with their little fella!
@drkknits Should’ve asked me! We have heaps we could have lent you.
The Self-Replicating Mittens pattern is now live: http://t.co/m8jvdvNv8X. Knitters, please let me know if you spot any obvious errors!
@drkknits It’s less about that and more about having them from going on trips there!
Time for QI and cocktails. We’re sophisticated.
@mrs_sockvictim I have slow-roasted pork belly in my house RIGHT NOW.
@GrumpyDerp @mseager @clepetit @virtualwolf Now half of Twitter is going to have nightmares…
@merrinmez @mrs_sockvictim Undue influence would have been mentioning the homemade onion jam seemed alongside it… 🙂
@merrinmez @mrs_sockvictim I think she means she’s not a real judge. I’m withholding pork products til I see something on letterhead.
@mrs_sockvictim @drkknits @merrinmez There is ALWAYS. More. Pork.
@randomknits @RoseRed_Shoes I nearly bought a pair of hot pink headphones at Costco today. I didn’t need them, but they were SO PRETTY.
@randomknits @RoseRed_Shoes They also have $20 pink jersey wrap dresses, but they didn’t suit me.
@randomknits @RoseRed_Shoes (I am the person who tries on clothes in the middle of Costco over their existing clothes.)
@aimee_maree You really can’t extrapolate from Austin to the US at the best of times, much less when SxSW is on.
@aimee_maree I wasn’t talking about Internet. I was referring to the dumb question about your nose!
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