An interesting video from our friends at Ted.com about Time and it’s use.

Note this is the Psychologist who did the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (google that and see what folks do to each other all in the name of “I was just following orders”).

Fighting Local Warming

Humorous in an odd way:

Now I am worried about this blog!!

No LCBO Strike

The LCBO and their union decided not to turn off the liquor spigot, and thus the mad rush on Tuesday simply meant that the shelves on Wednesday needed a lot of restocking (and lots of profits for the LCBO as well). For those who rushed out, guess you can have a BIG party for Canada Day, or you can keep your stockpile, for another holiday? There is a tentative deal in place and now we can all look forward to a boozy summer (whoo hoo!).

Unfortunately for Toronto their strike continues on and their garbage continues to stack up. With the heat this week, might make for some very aromatic issues in Toronto.

U.S. Interest Rates Stay the Same

Interest rates in the U.S. will stay the same for now, said the Federal Reserve on Wednesday.

The prices of energy and other commodities have risen of late. However, substantial resource slack is likely to dampen cost pressures, and the Committee expects that inflation will remain subdued for some time.

Good to hear, but energy prices going back up is going to whiplash on food prices as well, so inflation being low may be wishful thinking on their part.

Yes, this has absolutely nothing to do with Personal Finance or Banking or the like, but I really like this video from the NFB, Here’s Hockey talks about an earlier day, when kids played hockey without helmets or cages, and we played outside and maybe a more naive time.

I remember playing outside, with my Dad standing there freezing himself solid and then having to listen to me complain how cold I was after the game was played. The only thing that kept him warm was his cigarette!

I love this clip, it has Jean Beliveau, and Dick Irvine the coach.

Listen to the size of the NHL, it’s a $6M dollar business (how much is Jim Balsillie paying for the Coyotes?). Skates that are LUDICROUSLY expensive at $50 a pair, a simpler time that is for sure.

One of my favorite silly posts I did a while ago was Always Have a Target . 

Humor: Always Have a Target

One of the important parts of Financial Planning is to have credible and attainable goals and targets for your plan. If you don’t have a target, how can you tell if you are accurate?

With this in mind here is an important example of how if you have a target, your aim gets much better, and thus your aim at the target of your plan is better too.

Aim and Fire

This urinal has a small fly in it, which causes users of this urinal’s “accuracy” to increase by 80% (or decrease “spills” by that amount at least).

The trick is that at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam (ok outside of Amsterdam), do not have a bathroom attendant who puts a new fly in after each use, no, this is a STICKER of a fly, and this sticker has decreased the mess and filth in the bathrooms at Schiphol.

Look Closer:

What a great idea!!

Punch Line: Remember if you don’t have a target how can you tell if you are accurate or not .