DQYDJ is – at times – a personal finance web site. One of the ways I keep it personal is by sharing my asset allocation annually. While you may not particularly care for my family’s money management and personal financial moves, with the topics DQYDJ covers, I need to be transparent. By sharing our broad portfolio allocation, you can […]
The DQYDJ Weekender – June 7, 2020
It’s been a minute since our last Weekender. Unfortunately, since then, tragedy hit our family directly – I lost my grandmother to COVID a couple of weeks ago. It’s the story you’ve sadly heard before – supposedly, a staff member who later tested positive for COVID-19 brought it into her nursing home. They had been locked […]
Log Rule Board Feet Calculator
On this page is a board foot log rule calculator, which will estimate the board foot yield of a log using the Doyle or Scribner log scale rules, or the International log rule with a 1/4″ or 1/8″ kerf. It can also estimate the yield of standing trees using the Wiant and Castaneda adaptations of […]
The DQYDJ Weekender, 4/26/2020: COVID-19 Continues
How are you holding up? I figured today was a good day to write another contemporaneous “journal” entry. These Weekenders have helped me keep my thoughts straight, plus I’ve been getting fantastic feedback and anecdotes from you awesome subscribers. (There are 9,300 of you now!) When this is all over, I hope to go back […]
The DQYDJ Weekender, 4/05/2020
Hey folks! Welcome back to the Weekender. Once again, this one will be dominated by COVID thoughts – skip if you’re overloaded; I’ll be posting more real content in the coming weeks. Let me remind you again: in Weekenders, I shoot more from the hip. In this post are my contemporaneous thoughts on this wild worldwide pandemic. I’ll […]
Pizza Size Comparison Calculator: Pie Value, Compared
On this page is a round pizza size comparison calculator or pizza value calculator. Enter the diameter in inches of two pizzas along with their prices, and we will tell you the cost per area of both pizzas so you can get the most food for your dollar. As a bonus, expand the advanced options. There we’ll automatically […]
The DQYDJ Weekender, 3/15/2020: Reflections on the Markets & COVID-19
Back before I moved heavily into Twitter, DQYDJ used to host a regular series called The Weekender. Instead of fully fleshed-out thoughts like Cameron and I (try to) offer with the rest of the posts, Weekenders let us shoot from the hip with quicker reactions and round-ups of events and links. Obviously – besides the frequent trolling there […]
A Quick Market Correction, An Inverted Yield Curve, and a Corona
Last week was an interesting week. Fears of the novel coronavirus’s spread started coming to a head, and the US stock markets crumbled. As recently as Wednesday, February 19, 2020, the S&P 500 touched an all-time high of 3,393.52. On Friday, February 28, it closed at 2,954.22, down 12.9%. What Does the S&P 500’s Fall Mean? In the […]
And – Just Like That – He Was Gone: Camo, our Dog
This post isn’t about finance. If you can’t handle the death of a pet, skip this one – we’ll see you next post. Our dog died this weekend. It was recurrent mast cell cancer in the end – but even if it wasn’t, a number of his organs were on the precipice of failure. Camo […]
Key Parts of the Yield Curve Re-Inverted on January 21, 2020
Remember the yield curve inversion? Yeah me too. For most of 2019 until October (when the Federal Reserve cut overnight lending rates for the third time that year) a significant part of the yield curve was inverted. On January 21, 2020, Treasury debt in the 3 year range started yielding less than terms under a […]