The DQYDJ Weekender (Week of 4/9/12)

Posted By PK Last updated April 14th, 2012 14 Comments

Welcome back to the most Impersonal Personal Finance Website on the web!

Another week, another weekender coming to you from the Bay Area. Just hours after I left a comment at blogging pal Nelson’s site Financial Uproar about how it rarely hails in the Bay Area, it… hailed in the Bay Area. Must have been a Friday the 13th Thing. On that note, read his article about getting a metal roof.

Still Podcasting

The second example of me boring people for 4-7 minutes in podcast form was posted at The Free Financial Advisor on Monday. I have some inside information: I’ll be back this week!

Special thanks for my third favorite fan, Matt Allen, who (along with my parents) complimented me on my podcast! Matt has an awesome blog himself, I demand you read it today.

Carnivals and Links

The Totally Money Blog Carnival at Stupid Cents
The Carnival of Passive Investing at Money Rabbit
The Carnival of Personal Finance at Money Drain
The Carnival of Wealth at Control Your Cash
The Carnival of Financial Camaraderie at My University Money
101 Centavos
Invest It Wisely

Links We Liked

Another Country Heard From! We like what we’ve seen so far from the PF Watchdog Blog, including this reminder that we’re all not Warren Buffett. (Except Warren Buffett).
The plays on words alone would be enough for me to be a regular reader at Funancials. Check out A. Blinkin’s post on VIX Vapor Rub.
My comment at I Am One Percent was also eaten, but I loved the article on figuring out your talents early.
At Joyful Self-Manager, a discussion on what to do in a verbal confrontation.
At Master the Art of Saving, Jen crowdsources her spending of $80+ dollars! Send it to PK isn’t an option…
At Thad Thoughts an interesting look at Thad’s experience changing bosses. Read it!
Loved the back and forth over at Financial Samurai regarding early retirement, with a guest post from Mr. Money Mustache. The comments are a must read.
And last but not least, a good luck to fellow PF writer Suba at Wealth Informatics as she quits her day job!

End of the Road For the Republican Primary

We haven’t written much about the Republican Primary lately – Mitt Romney had gotten so far ahead that the odds of another candidate winning outright were ridiculously low. Sure, a brokered convention was mathematically possible, but when even Pennsylvania looked like a tossup the odds were infinitesimally small. In the race to 1,144 Delegates, right now (today) the breakdown is Romney 656, Santorum 272, Gingrich 140 and Paul 67 according to Real Clear Politics. If the fat lady isn’t singing, she’s certainly warming up…

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http://www.thefreefinancialadvisor.com/ AverageJoe

Dude, your part of the podcast is the best part! If they’d just swap out those two guys babbling for most of the show with more of your stuff, it’d be the perfect hour.

Do you mean that your comments got eaten? I’m glad I’m not the only one. I felt like I spent half the week telling webmasters that their sites devoured my comments. I know I write inane drivel (like this comment), but I’m not a spammer.
- http://www.dqydj.net/ PK
  
  Haha, my dad said he likes my piece but I sound like a professor. We agreed it’s hard not to when you’re riding solo. And yes, my comments always get eaten, and I have to solve every captcha too (annoying).
  
  Thanks Joe, appreciate that!
http://www.joyfulselfmanager.com/ Anthony Thomspon

Thank you so much for the blog mention. Have a great weekend.
http://www.thegeezergadgetguy.com/ Thad Puckett

Thanks for the blog mention. I continue to enjoy your posts!
http://twitter.com/financialsamura Financial Samurai

Let me go check out your podcast! I plan on starting a 5 minute podcast myself soon. Just need to find good software that is easily embedded with a play/pause button right there.
- http://www.dqydj.net/ PK
  
  Sam, did you get to it? You;d have to ask Joe on the whole plug-in point, but on his site I am able to play/pause. Still, I’ve been listening to us through iTunes (FWIW).
  
  Let me know if you have equipment questions! I do a dynamic microphone (Prodipe TT1) into a USB Mixer (Alesis MultiMix 4) and I use Reaper for sound capture.
http://www.mastertheartofsaving.com/ Jen @ Master the Art of Saving

Thanks for the mention, I absolutely love doing the ‘tell me how to spend my money’ posts—they’re so much fun. As well as a sneaky way to get people thinking about what the best financial option is.
- http://www.dqydj.net/ PK
  
  I love sneaky… best adjective ever.
http://money.ramblingfever.com/ Matthew Allen

Thanks for demanding your readers to check out my blog! Your piece on the podcast really is that good, and I’m not just saying that because I’m apparently the lone listener of the show. All you need is a few of your patented “Haha’s” so we know that it’s really you! Haha. I am certain that the popularity of this show will grow as word starts to spread. Genius idea by Average Joe to include fellow PF bloggers.
- http://www.dqydj.net/ PK
  
  Matt, I hope so too! It seems to be doing well so far – I’ve got to watch out it doesn’t get more subscribers than DQYDJ too quickly, haha.
http://blog.familymoneyvalues.com/ Marie at familymoneyvalues

Hail on a hot tin roof! Sounds like the good old days when we owned a farm house…
- http://www.dqydj.net/ PK
  
  Tin on the Farmhouse and the Barn and the Chicken Coop? 3 for one?
http://myuniversitymoney.com/ My University Money

I keep meaning to get on that whole podcast thing as well, but there always seems to be something else to get to. Great job making the leap and trying out a new medium.
- http://www.dqydj.net/ PK
  
  It’s fun – and I can crank out pieces *much* faster than posts here. I can do a 4-7 minute including getting the topic in around an hour.

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