Check out this time/money comparison: Let's say you had $1 million and you wanted to buy more time? How would that work? A) Buying time by the minute: So $1 million divided by 1,440 minutes in a day = 694 days. Then divide the days by seven days for each week and you now have 99 weeks. This would get you 1.9 years ... which is not too bad. B) Buying time by the second: So one hour multiplied by 60 seconds x 24 hours = 3,600 per hour each day. This converts to (1440 minutes x 60 ... [more]
And the Valentines Sweet Deals Contest Winner is… Sugarray’s Bob McAdam
The Penguin Party Patrol was recently at the Granville Island Hotel with John Filakowski to award the Two Night Stay-Cation prize in the Spendit.com members Valentines contest. The judges decision was final and Bob McAdam (Owner Sugerrays Gym) won the Spendit.com Sweet Deals for the Valentines 2015 Contest in the first round. Bob said he was super happy to win the prize and find out the Granville Island Hotel is dog friendly. This means Dempsey, Bob's pug boxer will get a holiday as ... [more]
These Are the Days… LIVE Your LIFE to the Fullest!
Don't Delay - Have More Fun Today! Sometimes the turn of century puts a weird spin on life and culture. When you have a change of Millennium things go wacky... Obviously! Just look at how we all started the 21st Century. First the "Dot-com Bomb," next the Y2K Scare, then 9-11 and terrorist on our home turf. Yuck! What ever you want to say; it was better in the past, it's going to get better next year? Who knows. Your only chance for happiness and success is to commit to making ... [more]
What Goes BOOM! And Can Be Heard One Minute Later in New West?
The 9 O'Clock Gun is a cannon located near Brockton Oval in Stanley Park at Vancouver, British Columbia. The Gun is shot every night at 21:00 (9 p.m.) PT. The crests of King George III and Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, Master-General of the Ordnance at the time the cannon was cast, are on the barrel. The gun is a 12-pound[1] muzzle-loaded naval cannon, cast in Woolwich, England in 1816.[2] Seventy-eight years later, in about 1894, it was brought to Stanley Park by the Department of ... [more]
From the Israeli Navy to Opening a World Class Fitness Center in Kitsilano!
Ron Zalko wasn’t always a clean living machine... About 30+ years ago he made a change for his own better health! Even though Ron’s back story could be considered amazing, it certainly is an encouraging and inspirational story in terms of how to tackle big dreams, grow your ambitions and earn your own luck with hard work! In fact, this is one of the most interesting things about the story of high achievers like Ron Zalko. It’s not what happened to them in life but how they decided to ... [more]