Saturday Morning Dump: I Gotta Go Christmas Shopping
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Because you all come here multiple times a day looking for fresh content, you might have been concerned about the lack of activity here the past week. You looked down at me with condescending (but concerned) eyes, thereby making me feel bad. Well, I can’t help it! Do you know how many chips I sold this week? I’m not going to say the number, because it would literally make you wet your pants in terror. Christmas is a busy time for anyone in the food business, so I was busy with work. This week looks a little more civilized, so look for a more normal posting schedule.
I booked a week worth of holidays for the first full week in February (starting on the 6th). I’m thinking I’m going to just do one of those last minute trips somewhere, so I can get some sort of smoking deal on one of those all-inclusive resorts. Unlimited buffets? SIGN THIS FORMER FAT GUY UP. I’ll let you guys know which one, just in case some of my sexier female readers decide to show up in a bikini. Or, feel free to suggest your favorite vacation destination in the comments. I probably won’t go there, but you can feel included.
Basically I only have this weekend and next to do Christmas shopping, but I have absolutely no incentive to do it. Christmas shopping is horrible. The crowds suck. I never know what to buy people, since I’m a thoughtless bastard. Exchanging similarly priced gifts with other adults is pretty dumb. Everyone would be further ahead if we just didn’t bother. What am I supposed to buy my Grandma? If it’s anything technological, I’ll get called 5 times to come over and fix it. Hell, she’s getting relatively senile, she probably won’t even remember anyway.
I am such a scrooge. It’s probably why I’m single.
Song I Like And Therefore You Should Too
I’ll tell you what’s not going to be the song of the week- Christmas music. All of it sucks, with the exception of this song. Do you know how annoying it is to go into grocery stores all day and have to listen to it? I thought about shoving pencils inside of my ears just to avoid it. How about some good music?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-uUKI7fDjA
I first discovered this song on a Heineken commercial, and just had to find the entire thing. She has a very interesting voice.
Encouraged by how good this song is, I immediately checked out a bunch of their other music. And it all sucks. Remember when you’d buy the whole album and discover that only the first single was any good? Thank God for iTunes.
Simpsons Quote Of The Week
Josephine: Dang, Cletus, why’d you have to park next to my parents?
Cletus: Now, honey, it’s my parents, too.
Gambling Is Fun
1-2 last week. Improvement!
I’m going to stick with my bet of Indianapolis covering against large spreads, this week they’re a 17 point underdog in Baltimore. I’m also taking the Houston Texans plus the 3 points against a struggling Bengals team. For my final pick, I’m taking Nashville to beat the Anaheim Ducks, straight up. The Angels might have improved their team this week, but the Ducks still suck.
Overall record: 7-15-2
A Post You Might Have Missed
My archives are sexier than every single cheerleader in the world, combined. And you all know how sexy cheerleaders are.
I started a tenets of investing list. It’s 10 rules that any contrarian investor should be following. It was a solid list, except it was clear nobody liked it. Anyway, go check out tenet of investing #2, which is focusing on turnaround plays with high potential returns.
The More You Know
Random Wikipedia time kids! If this disappoints, I blame each and every one of you people.
In India and Pakistan highways are dotted with local restaurants popularly known as dhabas (singular: dhaba; {Urdu: ڈھابہ ). They generally serve local cuisine, and also serve as truck stops.
In India they are most commonly found next to petrol stations, and most are open 24 hours a day. Since most Indian truck drivers are of Punjabi descent, andPunjabi food and music is quite popular throughout India, the word dhaba has come to represent any restaurant that serves Punjabi food, especially the heavily spiced and fried Punjabi fare preferred by many truck drivers.
The food in the picture does look delicious. But, I tend to not like the spices in Indian food. Does that make me racist?
Pick A Stock. Any Stock.
Nah. I picked 14 on Monday. Out of those 14, Hattaras Financial is my favorite, just in case you were wondering.
Babe Loosely Related To Finance
I’m suspecting that when I get a girlfriend, she won’t approve of this category. My single-ness is good for something, anyway.
This is Sophie Howard. And she’s from- you don’t care, do you?
Wow, she has small hands.
Hot damn, those are impressive.
Time For Links
Many condolences to Sandy, who lost someone close to her to a tragic accident. No jokes about this one.
Go check out Sustainable PF’s first year in blogging statistics. Hot damn, there’s a lot of stats there. Also, go check out who cracked the top 5 in referring sites in November. (Hint: it was this guy!)
Control Your Cash made fun of a certain blog that I don’t like. The result was quite delightful. You go read now.
Should you work for a small or large business? I looked at the pros and cons over at Canadian Finance Blog. One thing nobody should ever do is work for themselves. Ever. Did I say ever? Because I meant it.
Over at Frankly Speaking, he highlighted the annual letter from a hedge fund manager named Kyle Bass. Mr. Bass predicts defaults from all sorts of governments around the world. He’s clearly a bit of a downer, but the letter was an interesting read.
Wow, is the U.S. Postal Service is losing a whole bunch of money. 2011 losses are predicted at 14 billion dollars. Meanwhile, Canada Post continues to make money. Five Cent Nickel has all the details.
Fabulously Broke does a nice job with her budget roundups. I was especially excited about the mention of a nude tank top, but was disappointed with what I saw.
I’d recommend against reading Lifehacker. Or else your weekend will be filled with cool projects like figuring out how to stream media from your laptop to your tv using your router.
Melissa from Thirty Six Months is giving away an Amazon gift card. You should enter, even though you probably won’t win.
The Big Cajun Man has some thoughts on financial bloggers. This is actually a pretty funny read.
Carnivals
At least a hundred. At least.
Have a good week everyone.
Greg:
December 10th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
We’re glad you like Control Your Cash’s new feature. Doesn’t compare to your Babe Loosely Related To Finance, however. By the way, this week’s babe might have the most tenuous connection to finance yet.
Big Cajun Man:
December 10th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Thanks for including me, an interesting spin on the old “best of” links list, with the picture of the scantily clad young lady, hmmm…. don’t think my wife will enjoy that, so I won’t try it, but I think her hands are perfect size, they are just in the wrong place? Oh dear, I am going to hell for that one too.
FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com:
December 10th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
LOL!! Perv. Nude COLOURED tank top.
As for the song, I agree. I had the same moment of “Thank goodness” when I realized the rest of the album was not as fun.