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  • I LEARNED AN INTERESTING THING TODAYThey did a study ("they" is someone I read about in 'Newsweek') that when there are only one color of M&M's in a bowl - people ate 1/3 less! The original M&M's were brown, and…

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  • BEAUTIFUL DAY IN SANTA BARBARAThe wildfires have abated, so the auburn skies have been replaced by beautiful dark blue skies. The sunsets here in Montecito are amazing at DTR beach, and it is the huge trees around here …

  • QUIET EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ORIGAMI DIFFUSERIt is now available on the e-store. (comes with both the Amber and Cloud flap) for $29.95 Remember, free UPS Ground shipping within the U.S. for all orders over $99 - CLI…

  • APPLE'S NEW LEOPARD IS ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE It completly - COMPLETELY redefines your Macintosh. I just installed it (takes a couple of hours, FYI) and after having to deal with the absolute nightmare of Windows Vista…

  • IT'S JANEY'S BIRTHDAY AND WE TRIED TO SURPRISE HER BUT... Today is our friend Janey's birthday. Yesterday, we tried to surprise her by coming to Santa Barbara but not telling her. So on my blog, I didn't say where I wa…

  • PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS WROTE A NICE ARTICLE ABOUT US!

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  • THIS BOOK IS CAUSING A FIRESTORM IN THE NUTRITION WORLD, AND HERE'S WHYThere is so much information available on the internet about glycemic eating, and this book to me is slightly old news (well by about 8 months to me)…

  • THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE COLLAPSE, EXPLAINED IN SIMPLE TERMSFortune magazine had a great article about how mortgage-backed securities helped collapse the housing market, and how the damage is only beginning. The guy on "Ma…

  • SPY ON PEOPLE 24/7!!! I was on Jessica Claire's Shootsac blog, and I have completely stumbled onto a world of spying on people! There are actually people who broadcast webcams live feed throughout the day. This girl, J…

  • CLAY BLACKMORE STOPS BY FOR A VISIT

  • NEW YORK TRIP - THANK YOU EVERYBODY IT WAS AWESOME SEEING YOU I can't believe our trip is over. Talk about a whirlwind. It was our most successful trade show ever, and I have to thank my Brian Fry and Tiffany Yoder for…

  • $2000 REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO ... the arrest and conviction of the person who stole my CANON EOS 30D with 24-70mm f2.8L and vertical grip. I know this is a huge reward, but we want to catch this person.I know …

  • ANTES DE ESTE PELICULA, DENIS REGGIE DIJO QUE QUANDO ULTILEZEN UDS. EL LIGHTSPHERE, LOS RESULTADOS SON MUCHO MEJOR QUE ESTOS ... O ... COMO SE DICE "FOOF" EN ESPANOL? (creo que la palabra es "pedo")Muchos gracias Rodolf…

  • THANK YOU EVERYBODY! DAY ONE IN NEW YORK IS BEHIND US!This year, our booth was twice as big as last year, and this year we had five order lines and it was insanely busy all day long. It is absolutely unbelievable to be…

  • INTRODUCING THE GARY FONG LIGHTSPHERE UNIVERSAL AND THE GARY FONG ORIGAMI DIFFUSERS!At the Javits Center in New York City, we will have my newest products available for sale. The collapsible, fold-flat diffuser "The Or…

  • ENERGIZER BUNNYRabbit has a very odd sleeping schedule. She really pretty much wakes up around midnight, which is just about half an hour after I nod off. It's not that she's not 'awake' during the day, it's just that …

  • HOME PRICES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PLUMMETED 7.6% IN ONE MONTHToday, I arrived in New York and walked by the currency exchange booth. They have a little sign board with red LED's that tell what the exchange buy rate is …

  • PHOTO EXPO THIS WEEK - YOUR GUIDE TO THE TOP SPEAKERS!!! ALL COMING TO NYC!!!Come to New York City and visit us at the Trade Show! Plus - see a collection of our most awesome friends who happen to be in NYC at the same…

  • ELIZABETH - THE GOLDEN AGE - MOVIE REVIEW OK I know what you're thinking... why would I want to see a movie with Kate Blanchett dressed like bozo the clown?That's what I thought too, but the movie was good despite the 26…

  • BOING!!!!OK so my round shoes cannot seriously be made fun of after seeing these shoes. Anyway, they seem like they'd be fun like I wonder if you can jump super high or something if you just use your heels. xraytech po…

  • "INTO THE WILD" MOVIE REVIEWThe cinematography was beautiful. It was really long though, like watching a 2 hour R.E.I. ad except a guy starves to death. Ooops! Did I give away the ending? It is STILL worth watching …

  • HILARIOUS! CRYSTAL SAID THESE SHOES LOOK LIKE THE KIND OF SHOE YOU WEAR WHEN ONE FOOT IS SHORTER THAN THE OTHER!!! STOP IT!!!I know they look weird which is what I thought too - but standing in them was all I needed to…

  • WOW! CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR VERY OWN ORWATCH THE VIDEO BELOW WHY NOT?

  • MICHAEL CLAYTON MOVIE REVIEWIt was soooo long, but the awesome ending saved the movie. I couldn't figure out who was behind the dreadful mini-stories about the young boy, the birthday party, the brother the cop with fav…

  • AL GORE WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEWell [sigh] since he won the election but conceded the office, Al Gore has become the only human being in history to have won (all within the SAME YEAR) 1) The Nobel Prize 2) An Oscar3) A…

  • WHILE ON THE TOPIC BELOWYou can do anything. Define your project. Research extensively. Write down a game plan. Setup measurement tools. Analyze results. Change strategy. Repeat until mission accomplished.

  • WEIGHT LOSS TIPS So many people have been using this website's "search" tool seeking weight-loss tips. So I thought I'd write a few thoughts about keeping weight maintenance that have helped me:1) Make an email address …

  • GOLD JUST HIT A 28 YEAR HIGH.

  • OFF WE GO AGAINJust when we got started making this place a mess, we have to packup and leave for Seattle. My nephew Jonathan came into our hotel room once and said, "are you guys mad at the hotel? Why is it so messy?"…

  • THE BOTTOM IS FALLING OUT OF THE U.S. DOLLARIt is getting worse than even the most pessimistic forecasts were predicting. It was revealing when Alan Greenspan was being so evasive in his interview with Leslie Stahl on w…

  • HI FROM THE VANCOUVER INT'L FILM FESTIVALADAM'S MOVIE "THE UNION" WAS A STANDING OVATION HIT!IT IS SWEEPING FILM FESTIVALS ALL AROUND NORTH AMERICAIt is so exciting thinking of what it must be like to be Adam Scorgie rig…

  • WE MAKE DO HERE ON THE RANCHAnd deadlines. We have to get our banner displays for the NYC tradeshow, and I have the only prototype anywhere of a particular new product that is top-secret. So without Miss Whaletail here…

  • WE ARE LEAVING THE RANCH FOR A LITTLE WHILE [SIGH]Normally I get restless being in one place for longer than two weeks, but since this ranch has been finished I just hate the thought of leaving. Well the good thing is t…

  • THIS IS EXACTLY THE REASON I AM PUTTING NEW THOUGHT BUBBLESAND HAND-CARDS ON MY SITE. SINCE I DID, REVENUE HAS GONE UPNOTICABLYPeople pop in and pop out. You have 10 seconds to get their attention because they'll go to…

  • COUNTDOWN TO THE NEW YORK CITY PHOTOEAST - OCTOBER 18THE BIGGEST PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADE SHOW IN THE COUNTRYWE WILL BE THERE!! We are going to be introducing for the first time ever... THREE NEW AWESOME products that I can't …

  • WOW THIS LINK IS AWESOME!The best way for me to do product research is to google my products, go in all the forums and read what people like/don't like about my products, then go back to the drawing board and improve the…

  • ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO FIND OUT WHAT VIEWERS WANT IS WITH A SEARCH ENGINE TOOLI put the "freefind" search engine tool on this site a while ago to not only be a valuable tool for people who want to look up a previous pos…

  • JUST CURIOUS AS TO WHAT YOU THINK FROM THE HEADSHOTS?The Bachelor is back on ABC and it's Tivo season again. I'm just curious as to your thoughts about the girls on the show this season. Oh come on everybody does this.…

  • CONGRATULATIONS ADAM AND "THE UNION"!!!! WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY EDMONTON FILM FESTIVALBEST DOCUMENTARY WINNIPEG FILM FESTIVALGRAND PRIZE BEST EDITING RHODE ISLAND FILM FESTIVALAdam's documentary film is on a roll! I…

  • MORE AWESOME IMAGES ON JESSICA CLAIRE'S IMAGE SITE FOR OUR WEDDING!

  • HOLY SMOKES AND HE IS STILL GROWING! I was looking at Lindsay's website and I had never seen this photo of my big puppy Rodan. He comes from a great lineage - it says that he is the great grandson of the famous "Ramiro …

  • $5,400 PER HOUR OF FLIGHT TIME - HARD TO WRAP MY HEAD AROUND IT Those of you who have read this blog for a while probably have heard me mention this pre-visualization thing I do where I imagine very vividly something hap…

  • EQUI-LIFE (LINDSAY AND JESSE'S) HORSE SHOW It was a beautiful fall day, and Lindsay and Jesse hosted a horse show at the Kelowna Riding Club. Melissa was the official photographer, and she setup a display table with a s…

  • INSERT A CAPTION OR A MESSAGE HAND AND PROVOKE RESULTSThe internet is a place for people with VERY limited attention spans. Big companies spend a lot researching what is going to get you to click through to the next lin…

  • ME, SIX YEARS AGOThis is so weird but I was going through the new version of iPhoto, and it catalogs pretty much every single image I've put into the computer at any time, and I saw this photo from 2001. It's so weird, …

  • LIQUID STEVIA - ZERO CALORIES, TOTALLY NATURAL AND LESS STIRRING!It's completely natural, and so sweet. Plus it is in dropper form, so you don't have to stir like crazy. The only thing I didn't "love" about Stevia sugar…

  • GARY FONG INC NOW COMING TO YOU FROM WISCONSIN!Gary Fong Inc. has now completed the move of our manufacturing and distribution centers to the Madison, WI area. My operations chief Brian Fry has been flying back and fort…

  • EVER WONDER WHY SO MANY THINGS WERE INVENTED IN THE UNITED STATES? The personal computer, the internet, the microwave oven, the LIGHTBULB - the list goes on and on and it was all invented in the U.S. I've often wondered…

  • TACKY VS. AWESOMEI really like flipping through the "Robb Report" magazine because it's interesting to see how marketing people try to compete for the attention of the super luxury market. When Skip Cohen used to be Pr…

  • THE APPLE PHOTO BOOTH SOFTWARE AT A WEDDINGWe kept an Apple iMac out during the cocktail hour at our wedding, so our guests could play with the hilarious effects and leave us whacky images. It's a great idea for a weddi…

  • OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY!!!

  • OH MY GOSH YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!

  • BIOMETRIC FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION DEADBOLTS $229 I am changing the locks around the house to fingerprint recognition. If you've had a lot of construction workers with access, or you have a lot of people that work in yo…

  • WOULD YOU REALLY LIKE TO QUIT ALL OF THE APPLICATIONS AND CLOSE THE SESSION NOW? "If you don't do anything, the system will disconnect automatically in one minute and 44 seconds. [Cancel] [Close the Session]I've changed…

  • AWWWW! SHE'S BEAUTIFUL! My friend Brian Kramer, as you know, lost his beautiful dog Madison recently. It is SO hard to say goodbye to a dog, but therapists say that the kindest thing you can do for yourself when you lo…

  • THE IPOD TOUCH AND "LOST" I've begun to like the ipod touch. I downloaded season 3 of "Lost" and what is great about having the ipod touch is that I can be in bed, in the bathtub, at a coffee shop, on a plane (you get i…

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