Archives

I thought it might be handy to have a list of posts in an archive page. Here they are in reverse order of posting, with the title of the post and a link:

  • A Rambling Tale on Luxury Goods
  • Announcing Curling for Beginners and Improvers
  • Still Not Dead (2024 Remix)
  • Escape PHEV First Day Review
  • PHEV Dilemma and Shitty Ford Customer Service
  • Rare Disease Day: TTP and Caplacizumab
  • Hey Potato, You Dead?
  • The Summer of Suck
  • Real Estate Bear Spring
  • Demand Destruction and Carbon Taxes
  • A Different Take on the FHSA
  • Investing Apps: Just Say No
  • Reboot Your Portfolio Review
  • Covid and School Lunches
  • National Bank Direct Brokerage Review
  • The Rule of 30 Review
  • Questrade’s New UI… and How to Revert
  • Plug-In Hybrids and Our Next Car, Part 2: Analysis Paralysis
  • Plug-in Hybrids and Our Next Car
  • Housing Bubble Harms
  • Grad School, 10 Years On
  • Rent vs Buy: So How’d That Work Out for You?
  • Non-Internalized Lessons
  • An Object Lesson in the Dangers of Leverage
  • Nest Wealth Fees Changed
  • The Marriage of Grossman-Stiglitz and Dunning-Kruger
  • The K-Shaped Recovery (or the Perfect Storm that Missed)
  • Bank Phone Systems and Scheduled Calls
  • Ontario Covid Update – Jan 12
  • On Lags and Exponential Growth
  • Does Fraud Create Alpha?
  • The 2020 Dumpster Fire
  • Tangerine’s New Funds First Look
  • Existential Blog Questions
  • CPP Calculator Comparison
  • Does Anyone Know About Captive Insurance?
  • Whether to Lease Your Condo in a Pandemic
  • Halloween and the Plague Times
  • Passiv and Unbundling All-in-One ETFs
  • Prius 10-year Review and Hybrid Challenge
  • State of the Potato
  • Covid-19 Thoughts – Raise the Line
  • Curling Headgear Update
  • What Happens When a Robo-Advisor Shuts Down?
  • Taking Leave
  • Never Weight — Q3-19 Update
  • Investing is Not the Biggest GHG in Your Life
  • TD E-Series Changes
  • The Big C 2: Revenge of the C
  • Never Weight: A Year of Success (or a Tale of Water and Sadness)
  • Never Weight – Q2-19 Update
  • All-in-One ETFs and Changing Asset Allocation
  • Freelancing Finances – Spreadsheet
  • Taxes and Investing: Orientation
  • Never Weight – Q1-19 Update
  • Swap-Based ETFs and Budget 2019
  • Meltdown RRSPs for Future GIS Recipients
  • Never Weight – Q4-18 Update
  • 20 Years of BbtP
  • Passiv Review: A Robo in Your Pocket
  • Financial Literacy Month 2018
  • Head Protection for Curling & Skating
  • New RDSP Options
  • Robo-advisors and Taxable Accounts
  • That Kleenex in the Wash
  • Never Weight — Q3-18 update
  • Lemonade Lessons
  • How to Discuss Uncertainty: Cancer Edition
  • Decisions in Bad Times
  • Cargo Cult Adulting
  • You Don’t Have to Have an Opinion
  • Worry-Free Money Review
  • Cooling Cars
  • Day 7
  • Never Weight – Q2-18 Update
  • The Big C
  • Horse-Sized Ducks
  • Asset Location Gets REALLY Complex
  • Naked Offers, Jumping off Cliffs, and Life’s Surprises
  • The Value of Simple is a Success!
  • Vanguard’s New All-in-One ETFs
  • Never Weight – Q1-18 Update
  • DIY Root Canal vs DIY Tax Stuff
  • Tater’s Takes: The Flu, Back Pain
  • New $10 Bill
  • Dumplings & Dragons
  • The Market Can Go Down?
  • DIY vs Robo Quick Challenge
  • Never Weight — 4th Quarter Update
  • FLM and the Wonder Bread Abomination
  • The Rent vs Buy Decision
  • Early Withdrawal from RRSP for Low Income Year?
  • Never Weight — 3rd Quarter Update
  • OMERS AVC
  • Advisor vs Adviser Silliness
  • Algorithms to Live By
  • Burn Your Mortgage
  • Rent and Invest the Difference. Or Not.
  • A Framework for Estimating “Am I On Track?”
  • In Investing, Nobody Knows You’re a Cat
  • Never Weight — 2nd Quarter Update
  • Decisions Under Uncertainty and the HCG Example
  • Presto and the TTC
  • On Rent Control
  • Never Weight – 1st Quarter Update
  • Public Transit Tax Credit Axed
  • HCG TL;DR
  • Advice and The New Model
  • Value Proposition for Investing Course
  • Send in Your Investing Questions Now
  • Practical Index Investing Course is Complete
  • Never Weight
  • Winter Tires and Bang-for-Your-Buck
  • CPP Calculator with CPP Enhancements
  • Emergency Funds FTW
  • Robo-Advisor Comparison Calculator
  • Welcome New Readers
  • Insurance Woes
  • Trump and Investing
  • It’s Alive!
  • Because I Need This Right Now
  • Out of the Hospital, Not the Woods
  • Quick Update on Life
  • Mortgage Insurance, Tightening, and Shadow Banking Infrastructure
  • Visualizing Data and Situations
  • Short Updates: Renting in Toronto, Because Money, Course
  • Indexing and Valeant/Nortel
  • The Index Card
  • The One-Page Financial Plan
  • Passive Investing and Non-Linearity
  • July Course Update
  • The BC GVA Tax
  • The GTFO Calculator
  • CIHR Kerfuffle
  • June Course Update
  • The Long Earth and Foraging
  • Towel Day and Course Pre-Order
  • “Just Do X”
  • Air Miles Suck (and Have Effectively Expired Already)
  • The “Hot Potato”
  • Conjunction Fallacy and Real Estate
  • Value of Simple Updates
  • Flat-Fee Robo-advisor Model
  • Freelancers Guide Part 5: Stormageddon Editorial Example
  • Freelancers Guide Part 4: Sales Tax, HST Registration
  • Freelancers Guide Part 3: Taxes, T2125, Net Income
  • Freelancers Guide Part 2: Record-Keeping and Getting Paid
  • Guide to Canadian Taxes for Freelancers: Introduction
  • The Big Short and Canada’s Housing Bubble
  • TFSA or RRSP Decision Guide Infographic
  • The Holidaze
  • The Prometheus School of Running Away From Things
  • Dundee Smells Bad
  • The Opportunity Cost of Higher Education
  • Book Anniversary and 1000 Sales!
  • On Robo-advisors
  • Exciting Book and Podcast Updates
  • Door-to-Door Realtors
  • National Trust
  • Liberal Win and Pestering my MP Early
  • Drinks with Borrowell
  • Entrepreneurs and Random Thoughts
  • Site Screwing-Around Complete(ish)
  • Screwing Around With the Site
  • The DIY Investing Environment
  • Word on the Street After-Action Report
  • Basement Suites Are Not Magic: MoneySense Edition
  • Non-Registered Investment Tracking Spreadsheet
  • Gearing up for Word on the Street
  • Investing Should Be Boring
  • Directory of Fee-Only Planners and Coaches
  • Where’s Potato Been?
  • My Amazing Cat: In Remembrance
  • My Poor Kitty
  • Canadian Personal Finance Book Guide
  • On Checklists
  • 2014 Active Investing Update: Execution Risk
  • Response to Freelancing Thoughts
  • Wealthing Like Rabbits: A PF Cheerleader
  • Random Thoughts on Freelancing
  • The Bad Idea That Wouldn’t Die
  • TTC Chaos, I Just Don’t Get It
  • PanAm Games
  • In No Position to Buy
  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  • Risk and the Gom Jabbar
  • Exciting Book Updates and Giveaway
  • Self-Publishing Interview with Kyle Prevost
  • Self-Publishing Interview with Melissa Leong
  • Podcast & Money 201 Redux
  • VoS BtS 9: Business Side and Taxes
  • VoS BtS 8: Registrations and Cataloguing
  • VoS BtS 7: Publishing a Print Version
  • VoS BtS 6: Creating a Print Version
  • Money 201 and a Crazy Idea
  • VoS BtS 5: Publishing an e-book Version
  • VoS BtS 4: Creating e-books (ePub)
  • VoS BtS 3: Editing Process
  • VoS BtS 2: Timeline and Writing Process
  • Self-Publishing Behind-the-Scenes Part 1: Introduction
  • On Presenting and Money 201
  • On MERs and Past Performance (Again)
  • The Toddler Morning Efficiency Curve
  • Book Pricing and CAD
  • Notes on the Investor Education Business
  • Value of Simple RRSP Series Part 3: Over-Contributions
  • Value of Simple RRSP Series Part 2a: When to Defer
  • Value of Simple RRSP Series Part 2: Deferring the Deduction
  • Value of Simple RRSP Series Part 1: the Deadline
  • Rent vs Buy: Toronto Retrospective
  • Budgeting Processes
  • The Canonical Portfolio Part 2: Apocrypha
  • The Canonical Portfolio
  • One Day…
  • Scaling Problem: House Size and Heating Bills
  • Book Update: Not a Failure
  • Poloz Got My Memo
  • TFSAs: GIS and Business Income
  • The Value of Simple is Out
  • Value of Simple First Reviews and Launch
  • Robo-advisors
  • Changing My Tires and Pants
  • Publishing Behind-the-Scenes: Pricing
  • The Paradox of Advice
  • Index Investing: Beyond the Three Options
  • The Value of Simple – Three Index Investing Options
  • On Pricing and Breaking Conventions
  • The Shopkeep Model of Investing
  • Announcing The Value of Simple
  • I Am Not Good At Marketing
  • To Put It Another Way
  • Cover Design Update
  • We Have TFSAs Now: Lose the HBP
  • Potato’s Third Law (of Finance)
  • Tater’s Takes: Tax Refunds Are Not Windfalls
  • Use RRSP with DB Pension?
  • Back-of-the-Envelope: Motion Sensors
  • Pizza Math
  • TFSA Over-Contributions
  • MoneySense and the Stockdale Paradox
  • Other Rent-vs-Buy Calculators
  • The Art and Science of Cover Design
  • Sustainable House Prices?
  • Toronto Is Running Out of Rich People (to Sustain the Housing Bubble)
  • Life Insurance Bete Noire
  • Sunsetting Potato’s Short Guide to DIY Investing
  • Back from the Grant Monsoon
  • Conservatives and a Disdain for Data
  • Home Maintenance Rule-of-Thumb
  • Fixing Carrick’s Renter’s Guide
  • Blueberry: Life at Two
  • The Not Dead Post
  • The Automagical Financial Planning Ballparkinator
  • Rebalancing Spreadsheet
  • Regulatory Burden
  • He Asked For It
  • Regulation Examples
  • I Don’t Understand Twitter
  • Regulation of Financial Advisors
  • The Absurdity of Index Investing
  • Cherry Coke Zero Project Part 2
  • Updated Rent-vs-Buy Calculator
  • Tater’s Takes: CoW Edition
  • The Cone of Probability
  • I Got the Shot But Got Sick Anyway
  • Stop Over-Thinking Your Money
  • 2013 Active Investing Update
  • Defining Generations
  • Course Adjustments
  • So Done with Bell
  • New Year’s Miscellany 2014
  • DarkTO: Day 6
  • No Power
  • Why Do Pensions Exist if the Future is Discounted?
  • Wonky Buy vs Rent Calculator
  • The Veritas-Urbanation Showdown
  • On Overtime
  • Happy Halloween!
  • Nope, No It Isn’t [A Rant]
  • Planning for Aging/Dementia
  • Yawn Interrupted
  • Pacific Rim & Man of Steel
  • Pinkshirts (Blueberry Shorts)
  • Behind the Muzak
  • Welcome CPFC13 Readers
  • Why Gross Debt Service Ratio
  • Of Course You Invest It
  • Mortgage Helpers: Not Magic
  • Toronto Condos: Best Case Scenario
  • Investing Book Second Edition
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Point
  • Double Space
  • Meta: What Do You Want to See Here?
  • Sampling, Weighting, and the Average
  • Stormtroopers
  • Lab-Grown Meat
  • Macro Investing
  • WHO Poisoning in Europe
  • The Cherry Coke Zero Project
  • Robots and Other Pedants
  • The Importance of Socks to the US Economy
  • The Impossible Home Capital Group
  • Rounding: You’re Doing It Wrong
  • Little Known Facts About Calories Part 2
  • Little Known Facts About Calories Part 1
  • Spring Personal Finance and HST Instructions
  • Baby Anecdotes
  • Coping Mechanisms for Budgeting
  • HOT.UN – American Hotel REIT
  • On Your Final Career and Financial Education
  • The Problem of Slavery in Science
  • The Eternal PF Work-Life Debate
  • Duckies
  • Speculative Holding
  • Looking for Opportunity in Payout Cuts
  • Baby Monitor Theft
  • Charity Overhead
  • This Train is Out of Service
  • Seizing Assets
  • Google Closing Products
  • Car Seats
  • Dell XPS 8500
  • Economic Growth Will Not Offset Interest Rate Risk
  • Housing Bears and Perspicacity
  • Desktop Died
  • Debt-to-Income Ratio: What It Means
  • Stock Picking Contest 2013
  • Emili: My Thoughts
  • Toronto is Full
  • Poseidon and What Worries Me
  • Parenting: a Collection of Venn Diagrams
  • Book Now in Kobo
  • Supply and Demand
  • Buying on Take-over Rumours
  • Blueberry Portfolio Month 5 – Sitting on Cash
  • Impact of Housing Slowdown on the Banks
  • On the Magic of Peanut Butter
  • Shoppers Optimum Scam
  • Blueberry Portfolio Month 4 – Whiterock Luck
  • Just Noticeable Difference
  • Relationship to Paragraphs
  • Interesting Patent Facts
  • Blueberry Girl
  • Drinking in Pregnancy
  • Freddie Mac: Political Risk
  • Blueberry Portfolio Month 3: Capital Gains
  • The Mythical Soft Landing
  • Endless Space
  • All-In-One Mortgage Accounts
  • RIM and Value, Again
  • Blueberry Portfolio Month 2: Capital Power
  • Reading Financial Statements: Canexus Edition
  • Retirement Calculator – Part 3 of 3 – Scenarios
  • Retirement Calculator – Part 2 of 3 – Details
  • Retirement Calculator – Part 1 of 3 – Introduction
  • Random Thoughts For The Week
  • Effectiveness of Ads
  • Blueberry Portfolio Month 1: Our First Profit
  • What Is News: Science Certainly Is
  • Blueberry First Two Months
  • Introducing the Blueberry Portfolio
  • Post #1000
  • Valuing a Pension
  • Take CPP Early?
  • Snow and Scientific Communications
  • Reflections on Midwifery
  • Blueberry Birth Catharsis
  • It’s A Girl!
  • Tater’s Takes: Fresh Start Farm Edition
  • The Pain of Speculative Holding: An American Reader Writes In
  • The Hunger Games
  • Group Deals Passe
  • BMO Mortgage Special
  • Things Are Getting Very Real
  • Tater’s Takes – Charlie Munger
  • The Deceptive Importance of Changes in the Homeownership Rate
  • Default Rate and Seth Klarman on Junk Bonds
  • Prius Year 2
  • The Wealthy Barber Returns
  • Housing Bears Must Be Patient
  • TD Waterhouse Removes TFSA Admin Fee
  • Tater’s Takes – Book Lover’s Ball
  • What Makes Hybrids Awesome: The Engine
  • In Which I Become Idiosyncratically Angry At Auto Journalists And Their Continued Ignorance
  • Housing Bear Rebuttal
  • Life Insurance
  • Western Rebrands
  • A Stock I’ve Been Thinking About
  • Emergency Preparedness and LoCs
  • Security Software: McAfee Sucks
  • GM: Engineered to Fail
  • Tater’s Takes
  • Bottom Fishing with Carnival
  • Perpeptual Motion Machine
  • Ridiculous Article on EVs
  • Flag Football
  • New Year’s Resolutions and Revamps
  • SPF Giveaway – I Won A Prize!
  • 2012 Stock Picking Contest
  • Active Investing Thoughts – 2011 Underperformance
  • New Year’s Day, 2012
  • Expensive Advice
  • Rent vs Buy Sensitivity Graphically
  • What Is a Good Expectation of Future Stock Returns?
  • Should I Sell My House And Rent?
  • Rent vs. Buy: The Investment Spreadsheet
  • Rent vs. Buy: Discussion Points Follow-Up
  • Leading vs Lagging Indicators: Rental Vacancies
  • Renting: Explaining it Again For You
  • Tater’s Takes – Chewing Gum
  • Sick Time Reading: Alloy of Law, God Engines, Hull Zero Three
  • Why MicroFIT?
  • Sector Focus with a TD E-series Portfolio
  • Book Exerpt: Planning
  • Poseidon Concepts PSN
  • The Social Status of Scientists
  • The Story Behind The Book
  • A Quick Note to the Computer-Naive Lawyers
  • Tater’s Takes
  • Indigo Sells Kobo
  • Potato’s Short Guide to DIY Investing
  • Open Letter to Bell: Phone Quality
  • Problem-Solving and Sleep
  • Gift Ideas & Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • What Counts As A New Appliance
  • Book is Live
  • Prius Undercarriage Follow-Up
  • Tater’s Takes: Marathon Wars
  • Human Resources Nightmares
  • Toronto Housing Search Redux: Mould Edition
  • Prius Trouble: Undercarriage
  • Accounting Debate
  • Ontario Election Thoughts
  • Ratesupermarket First Time Buyer Guide
  • Kobo Touch E-Reader Review
  • Investing Book
  • CPSO Statment on “Non-Allopathic Medicine”
  • The Lich King
  • Weird Guest Post Request
  • Little Girl’s Scooter
  • Printed Thesis
  • Fiddling with the Site
  • It’s Over!
  • Doctor
  • On Q-tips
  • On Timing and Housing Bearishness
  • DIY Market-Linked GICs
  • Flying Fish
  • Tater’s Takes – Top Gear Distorts
  • Mouse in Printer
  • Active Investing – Potato’s Valve
  • Tater’s Takes – A Competing Religion
  • OSG – Overseas Shipholding
  • An Open Letter to Jason Segel
  • Anonymity, Pseudoanonymity, And Google+
  • Heat Wave!
  • Stock Thoughts: Yellow Media, Corning, AvenEx
  • Tater’s Takes – Whale Poop and Fireflies
  • Lamprey: The Creeping Horrors
  • Putting Words in Ben Tal’s Mouth
  • The Interesting Case of Bennett Environmental
  • Back From Vacation Tater’s Takes
  • Vacation Random Thought Round-up
  • Tangibility: An Investment Quality?
  • Halifax
  • Sino-Forest: Day 4
  • Smartphone Tethering: Bell’s Obsfucated Pricing
  • Sino-Forest: Day 3
  • Sino-Forest
  • Tater’s Takes
  • What I Love About Grant Writing
  • Not Because They Are Easy, But Because They Are Hard
  • Raccoons and Laser Pointers
  • Onion Rings
  • Macho Mania
  • TEPCO Update: WTF Is With Japanese Law
  • Outreach Event
  • Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
  • Thesis Progress
  • Tater’s Takes: Mother’s Day
  • The Election
  • Tater’s Takes: Value Investing Videos
  • On Anonymity, Garth Turner, Leverage, and Controversy
  • Simplifying the Tax System
  • Tech Stock Quick Looks: RIM, CSCO, IDG
  • TD e-series
  • UBB Update 6: Bell Backtracks
  • Thesis Snacks
  • Tater’s Takes: REITs, UBB
  • Word Demons
  • REITs vs Direct Real Estate
  • Thesis draft: FINISHED
  • Stocks: Oil, Asset Allocation
  • Homeopathy
  • Tater’s Takes – UBB, Copyright, and Nuclear Power
  • Radiological Accidents: Some History
  • Japanese Crisis & Nuclear Power
  • Rogers – RCI.B
  • Tater’s Takes – Sad Panda
  • Looking at Pipelines
  • TTC Essential Service
  • Tater’s Takes – Space Wall
  • Market Timing vs Value
  • A Year with the Prius
  • Tater’s Takes
  • UBB Update 5
  • UBB Update 4: Kindergarten
  • UBB Update 3: Basic Economics
  • UBB Update 2(b)
  • UBB Update 2(a)
  • UBB Update 1
  • Dell XPS L501X
  • Power Outage?
  • Usage Based Billing
  • Random Word Post
  • The Prius V
  • Canexus
  • Mortgage Amortizations
  • The Cookie Showdown, Part 2
  • The Cookie Showdown
  • Tater’s Takes – I will never understand bees
  • China-Based Stock Frauds
  • Accidental Weather Witchcraft
  • ISP Regulation?
  • The Idea of Risk and the Housing Bubble
  • The New Thunderbird
  • Honda Hybrids: CR-Z
  • Civilization 5
  • Xmas Shopping Round-up: EB Games & TTT
  • Tater’s Takes – Debt and Misinformation
  • Poor London Squirrels
  • TFSA – For the non-CMF members
  • Priszm, Plus Another Crazy Month on the Market
  • C&C 4: Tiberium Something-or-Other
  • “We’re Not a Flyer Store”
  • Tater’s Takes- Too Much Snow
  • The Writing Process
  • Tater’s Takes – Priszm, Depreciation, Puppies, and China
  • December Shuffle – TFSA
  • CFLs and Choice
  • Ian Lee: “Why we won’t see a housing collapse”
  • Home Improvements
  • Real Estate Shotgun Rant
  • TVO’s the Agenda – The Case Against Homeownership
  • Winter Driving
  • Ritchie the Dog
  • Tater’s Takes – Half Price Halloween Candy
  • The Core of a Bubble
  • Tater’s Takes – Halloween!
  • NaNoWriMo
  • The Many Forms of Pirate Beards
  • No Crusts, Please
  • On The Importance of Socks
  • Turkey in Turkey
  • USB Fridge
  • Kitties in the Mail
  • Pump & Dump
  • Tater’s Takes – RE Carnival, RESP book
  • SC2 vs WCIII
  • BAC: Warrants vs Stock
  • Tater’s Takes – Post 800
  • Used Video Games
  • Hilarious Bucket Lists
  • Tater’s Protein Shake
  • September, the Season of Spiders
  • Scott Pilgrim vs The World
  • JoCo/P&S Playlist
  • Tater’s Takes: Super Busy
  • Little Known Facts About Calories
  • Tater’s Takes
  • Scientific Obscurity
  • The Misbehavior of Markets
  • Solar Storm
  • Tater’s Takes
  • Iomega ScreenPlay Plus
  • Shipping Cavaclade of Failure
  • StarCraft 2 Rollout Very UnBlizzard-Like
  • Damned FutureShop
  • Preferred Shares
  • Tater’s Takes – Writer’s Block Edition
  • Asset Allocation As Seen in StarCraft
  • Running the Chocolate Gauntlet
  • Tater’s Takes – Creatures of the Night
  • Cool New Feature from TPL
  • Fear of Hybrids, Again
  • Housing Advice Silly Season
  • 2010 Blogger Stock Picking Contest – Q2
  • Wil Wheaton and Unikitteh Save Iceland
  • The Peculiar Things Dragons Eat
  • The Many Drafts of The Internet Dreams
  • Warren: I’m Sorry
  • Water in the Basement
  • G20 Anarchists
  • Tater’s Takes – BP, RIM, and TFSAs
  • 28-Hour Day
  • Retirement and Death Planning
  • TFSA Over-Contribution Fuss
  • The Southern Half of the Earth
  • The Cycle Path of Death, Awesomeness, Darkness, and Fireflies
  • Tater’s Takes – Bottled Water
  • BP and Investing
  • MRI Safety – The First Draft
  • Sleazy Car Dealers
  • Free Crap
  • Wil Wheaton and the Scalzorc
  • CREA Revises Forecast
  • BP – Disaster and Investing
  • JoCo and Paul & Storm
  • Tater’s Takes
  • Immigrants Are Not Stupid
  • Questions Best Left to Theory
  • Another Market Panic
  • Intelligent Design
  • Iron Man 2
  • Auto-Links Tint
  • StarCraft 2 Beta – First Thoughts
  • Computer Glitch in the Markets?
  • Hatred Across the Size Scale
  • Logical Fallacy Shoot the Moon
  • Prius Scratch Repair
  • Prius Update
  • Priszm: Hell in a Handbasket
  • Tater’s Takes
  • The Flat-Tax Fantasy, Part 2
  • The Flat-Tax Fantasy
  • To the “User” of the 4th Floor Men’s Room
  • Home Solar Panels
  • Tater’s Takes
  • Ontario’s Bitter Pill
  • Rage
  • Introducing The Cat
  • Shoppers Cuts Hours
  • 133 Words Per Visitor
  • Tater’s Takes
  • Do Not Show This To My Insurance Company
  • Change for the Better
  • First Solar, Revisited
  • The Big Short
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • UWO Parking April Fool’s?
  • 2010 Blogger Stock Picking Contest – Q1
  • Future Shop Policies
  • Prius – First Scratch
  • Sub Bun Disappointment
  • Power Suit Procrastination
  • Peter Watts and the US Border Guard
  • H1N1 Update
  • Shorting Zenn
  • G&M Publishes Bad Science
  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day
  • Young People More Likely To Buy Homes
  • Recent Prius Incident
  • Budget 2010
  • CWI
  • Good-bye to the Accord
  • Prius
  • Mortgage Rules: It’s a Good Start
  • Life is Surreal
  • RRSP Season
  • True Facts from My New Apartment
  • Last Chance To Talk Me Out Of It
  • The Move – Campbell Bros Moving
  • Shoeburyness
  • Toyota Halts Sales
  • Holistic Portfolios and Your House
  • Donating Books
  • Low/No Downpayment Systematic Risk
  • Following the Herd
  • TFSA 2010
  • 2010 Blogger Stock Picking Contest
  • Holiday Gaming Annoyances
  • Selling The Crown Corporations
  • I
  • Olson Reactor 2 Curling Broom
  • Site Update: I Fixed It!
  • Site Update: I Broke It!
  • Why I Like Rent Multiple
  • Site Update & The CMHC
  • Real Estate Mantras
  • Log Transform Update
  • Toronto Housing Search Conclusion
  • Tales from the Toronto Housing Search
  • Weekend Update
  • Very Quick Experiment Follow-Up
  • Handwashing
  • A Very Quick Experiment
  • ShopMyAXS
  • First Solar
  • Tamiflu
  • Thimerosal
  • Happy Halloween 2009
  • More on Vaccines and Hype
  • The Vampire’s Assistant
  • Borderlands
  • Freddie Mac
  • “You Can’t Time The Market”
  • H1N1 Vaccine
  • Autumn is Awesome
  • Zombieland
  • Brainmass
  • 4 Years of BbtP
  • Rogers Rocket Stick
  • Stupid OHIP Cards
  • Perparing for the Worst
  • The Liquidity Risk of Real Estate
  • Impressive Meteor
  • Self-Healing Car
  • Why Professors Don’t Teach
  • Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Studies
  • Mortgage Interest
  • Cryogenic Head Freezing
  • Fired Up
  • Summer Reading Wrap-Up
  • Apocalyptic Courtesy
  • SC: Shoppers Drug Mart
  • Student Rental Discrimination
  • Investing Zero-Sum Games
  • Options Collar
  • Gas Stoves
  • Pedestrian Killed by Cyclist
  • Anansi Boys
  • Working Longer for Retirement
  • 150 lbs of Rotten Meat
  • Rented a Ford Fusion
  • Belts Must Be Disgusting
  • ColdFX
  • Why Are Government Workers in Unions?
  • Rent vs. Buy, Revisited
  • On Budgeting and Staying Put
  • Electric Car Rebate
  • Accord End-of-Life
  • Water Outage
  • Watermelon
  • Public Enemies
  • Random Realtor Rage
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