Don't Quit Your Day Job…

Ahh, another week, another Weekender! How many of you are getting sick of turkey leftovers already (our spread, with half of the turkey carved is show above!)? Fight through it, read some articles, and react to my stupid musings.

Welcome to the first edition of the weekender – DQYDJ’s weekly update. Previously I had tossed these things out like flyers in Vegas, but this format should allow me to make things a little more interesting for your reading pleasure. Truth is… blogs don’t update as much on weekends. Well, we like to refer to DQYDJ as a web site (Aristocrats!). What’s the difference? There is none, really. Call us whatever you want. Just remember we update on weekends.

If you’ve been reading our stuff for a while, you know that we here at DQYDJ are one of the more cynical feeds in your RSS reader. Well, today we’d like to share with you one more piece of evidence on why our cynicism is justified.

A recently released survey from lab42 went where you only dared to dream: Lab42 asked 550 social media users about their digital life and how it related to their personal lives. One sign of the times: 33% of social media users had broken up with someone by Text, Email or Facebook. Slightly more depressingly, 40% of users would consider using that method to ditch their significant other.

Last time I angered all of you by asking if certain majors should pay higher rates for their student loans. Now I ask you a subtly different question: Should some majors pay more in tuition? I ask you this question on the weekend, as it is lighter on math (for reasons that will be explained), and the fact that I’m likely highly biased, being a Software Engineer and all. Let’s not let that affect the daily editions of DQYDJ, okay?

Welcoming The Frugal Toad to our blogroll, linking great stuff, adding a Facebook page, an eBook from MD at Studenomics and so much more!

Carnivals submitted to, featured links, guest posts, oh my. Updates for the week of 10/31/2011.

“Good morning class. Today we’ll discuss some things that anyone who has passed 6th grade already knows (sorry for those of you that didn’t). Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest (ironically laughing to myself now at those who didn’t). This concept is believed to be what drove life from tiny micro-organisms which emerged spontaneously eons ago to the amazing diversity of life that Earth possesses today. This process appears to be what designed us, what makes us humans the cream that rose to the top. The ironic twist that we run into after the millions of years that it took for us to evolve is the concept of ‘Morality’.”

Interesting posts, updates, and carnivals and featured links for the week!

DQYDJ was featured in 2 carnivals this week, better than the average week! We’ve also be included in a few additional blog aggregators and listing sites. All that and more in this update for the week of 10/17/2011.

Last year I emailed Len Penzo about doing a “paper vs. plastic?” post for one of his “Letters, I Get Letters” articles. Len, as you know, is a plastics guy at heart, but he loved the idea so he sent me something awesome – his band’s CD, “In Retrospect”. You see, Len is more than an awesome blogger, his talents run much deeper. He was in a band, The Relics, which released an album on Blind Dog Records back in 1995. He also had an awesome haircut, which I have evidence of in the article!