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  • MY FAVORITE CAMERA FOR IMAGE QUALITY EVER As I'm looking back on my iPhoto's 32,000 plus images, the photos that stand out the most for spectacular image quality is the Fuji S20. That thing was an amazing imaging machin…
  • BOOK QUESTIONS

    Hey everybody. My book is right now trending towards really funny. I'm talking about what happened at different stages but rather than make it a dry, "how-to" book it's a bunch of stories that weave together involving …
  • WHEN YOU BROWSE SOMEBODY'S WEBSITE, ANYBODY'S... THEY CAN LEARN A LOT ABOUT YOU - Crystalvue said it was kind of creepy how we know what search terms were sought on our website, but that should be no surprise to anybody.…
  • SEARCH REQUESTSRecently, some of you have been searching for:Gary's Favorite camerascarsdale medical dietemploymentgeothermal So you don't have to search around, my favorite camera is the Canon EOS5D. Actually Canon is …
  • KELOWNA RANCH AT TWIN CREEK RANCH - WEDDINGSWe haven't launched the website yet (that's our project for January) but I'm working on it right now. We're going to have the ranch open as a wedding location site... should b…
  • HOW TO STORE YOUR EGGS Did you know you are supposed to store your eggs pointy side down? This is supposed to "center" the yolk better. I just rearranged all of my eggs! You should too! Why not?
  • PICTURES FROM A FEW MINUTES AGOI just took some images of our ranch in winter. The swimming pool sure looks trippy filled with snow! You can see them all on facebook - click here! If you request addition as a friend,…
  • DEAR GARY, IF YOU ARE SO INTO PREVISUALIZING AND POSITIVE THINKING WHY DO YOU POST SUCH DEPRESSING SHIT?That was a good question from Dan Watkins, and I answered it in the comment, but nobody reads the comments so I'll a…
  • THE STEREOTYPE OF A PRIVATE INVESTIGATORI just got done reading a great book by Valerie Plame on the CIA leak story. While much of the book is redacted, she talks a lot about espionage and the spicy life of a real-life …
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  • NICE SHOT JESSE!Jesse got an EOS Digital camera from Santa, and he's been inseparable with his camera ever since. Here's a cool shot he took from the arena. Way to hand hold that Jesse!
  • EVEN FASTER, MORE CONTEMPORANEOUS CORPORATE MINUTES Keeping corporate minutes was such a time-consuming task in the past. But what I've done is "templated" my board of director's meeting minute format in a "signature" o…
  • GFI RETAINS JEEKAI AND PARTNERS IN BEIJING CHINAFOR LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF IP RIGHTSGary Fong Inc. has selected Jeekai & Partners to represent its Intellectual Property rights in China, Hong Kong and Japan.
  • 12:16AM AND ALL'S WELL.......Today I looked on my Xanga to see who was visiting my site at 12:16am, and here is who is looking:Hundreds of thousands of visitors visit this site every month. I think it is because I am so…
  • WRITING A BOOK IS LIKE BUILDING A FERRIS WHEELThose of you who hang out with me know I have a ton of stories. Like the time I was shooting the wedding and the groom's ex-girlfriend showed up at the wedding wearing a gow…
  • COOKING REQUIRES TALENT AND EXPERIENCE I GUESS!I need more experience working with Agar. Mine came out a little lumpy today, but it's because I really didn't know how it behaves and I didn't rely on measurements. I jus…
  • HOW WEIRD THAT I JUST WATCHED CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR AND THEN THE NEXT DAY THE PRIME MINISTER OF PAKIS

    I will write more about what this could mean in a little bit. It is huge news by the way.
  • WALL STREET - THE MOVIE, I GET IT NOW!

    When I first saw this movie, I didn't understand a thing about what was going on. There was so much stockbroker lingo all I knew was they were doing ruthless deals that hurt people. I don't like to do stock trades, Wa…
  • CHINESE PATENTSHaving products distributed internationally requires a lot of lawyers. The way I work it is I have a U.S. law firm with associate relationships in other countries, kind of like hiring a contractor who hir…
  • THE BEST CHRISTMAS I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCEDThe Mrs. described it best - click **here**This has been the best Christmas ever. I will write more later. I know I keep saying "I will write more later" but I really am writin…
  • CHRISTMAS SEASON AT THE RANCHIt's beautiful here. I'll write more later :)
  • I JUST GOT MORE WEDDING PHOTOS ONLINEJessica Claire just sent us a DVD and there's many great images I hadn't seen before. She is an amazing photographer. So is Jen Bebb. The photos are beautifulclick here!AND HERE'S…
  • CLICK HERE TO SEE MY FACEBOOK PHOTOS!
  • FACEBOOK EXPORTER FOR IPHOTO IS SO FAST AND EASY Which is why if you are on facebook and I know you, I've probably 'tagged' each of you in a photo somehow. Last I looked I had 30,212 photos and 348 movies on my iphoto. …
  • THE BREVILLE REMOVABLE PLATE GRILL IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE GEORGE FOREMAN GRILL I have to hand it to the champ for reinventing himself. These days, if you ask anybody if they know who George Foreman is, they'd most …
  • IMAGE TAKEN WITH A FUJI Z5 These little point-and-shoot cameras are not bad! Here's a shot taken with face recognition on and pulled in tight with the telephoto zoom button. Melissa was very sleepy from skiing "so" muc…
  • LINDSAY FEEDING THE HORSES I honestly don't know how Jesse & Lindsay do it - well it's mostly Jesse but all of the horses need to be fed twice a day. Since our pastures span 12.5 acres and about 1/3 of it is up a h…
  • IMAGE BY AMY NAVEThis photo was taken on our Santa Barbara wedding day.Today we went skiing with Jennifer Kiefer. We did a total of one run and then slept pretty much all day. There is a lot of snow, but the blanket is…
  • MY NEW CHEETAH'S SWEATSHIRT! YAY!!! This is a long and interesting story but my assistant used to own a local strip club. Her boyfriend Adam's dad used to own it, and he died and so all of a sudden Adam and Lauren are …
  • NIKON D300 IS IN STOCK AT B&H People are going nuts about the new Nikon D300, all I know is that B&H has it in stock, so if you are interested I know they have them. I have heard that they are really hard to fin…
  • THE VIEW OUTSIDE OUR WINDOWDark blue skies and a velvety coating of soft, dry powder. We are meeting our friends Jason and Jennifer this morning at around 11 at the top of the hill. My legs are going to burn!
  • WE ARE FINALLY AT BIG WHITE SKI RESORT! It's so awesome that our ranch is just 45 minutes from one of the world's most famous ski resorts. Kelowna is so amazing like that. It has world famous wineries minutes from wor…
  • A COZY WINTERThese photos were taken a few minutes ago at Twin Creek Ranch:
  • JOE BUISSINK IS COMING TO INDIANAPOLIS For those of you in the midwest who have never had a workshop with world-renowned photographer Joe Buissink, I'm excited to announce that he is giving a four day workshop and model…
  • GFI GIFT CARDS ARE THE ONLY GIFT CARDS... ...that are sold at a discount. I can't understand why other retailers don't do this. When you buy a gift card from my store: 1) You save 4% off the face value. Other retailers …
  • PIANISTS - HERE'S THE CHORDS TO "CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE" Nothing feels more like Christmas than hearing the Charlie Brown songs. So I looked up the chord progression to Christmastime is here, and it's a beautiful set of …
  • THE BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY SEASONIt is so beautiful here at the ranch. There is a gentle blanket of snow everywhere, and we're decorating our first tree here. There is holiday music throughout the home on satellite, and it…
  • WE ARE RETURNING TO THE RANCH THIS AFTERNOON! We've been gone for a month to Denver, L.A., Santa Barbara, Indianapolis, and Seattle and we return to our ranch today!Thanks Jesse for the cool photo from last night! Thank…
  • PORSCHE - THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTEI love this video of my Cayman screaming through Marina Del Rey, CA
  • CORPORATE RECORDS I don't know how many of you have corporations, but if you do, you have to comply with the odd requirement that you have board meetings. If you are a one-person corporation like me, where I am the CEO,…
  • IF YOU STARE AT THIS GIRL FOR A WHILE, SHE MOVES. In the business world, how important do you think personal appearance is? A little-known secret in the hotel world is when you interview for a job, there is a little bo…
  • WHAT'S BETTER MYSPACE OR FACEBOOK?I'm on facebook. My myspace only has Tom as my friend for some reason. OK thanks bye.
  • THIS PEN IS SO COOLI was in Indy and we were all running around the mall, and I stuck my head inside this pen store. I've been into pens recently, not the crazy super expensive Cartier pens, but just funky weird pens t…
  • DISCOVERY BAY IS OPEN FOR OCCUPANCY!It didn't take nearly as long as they said which is amazing in Kelowna with a huge shortage of construction workers, but my lakefront condo at Discovery Bay has now been completely ren…
  • THE NEW JULIA RENZ CARING BRIDGE WEBSITE ANDTHE HEARTFUND IS NOW ON PAYPAL!Today I just sent a donation to Julia's heart fund. The donated funds will be used in the following ways:1. help pay backed medical expenses. 2…
  • WE ARE SICK IN BED IN SEATTLEBunny gave me her cold. So since I am bed-bound we can't finish our holiday shopping today in the best shopping city in the world (yes better than NYC, IMHO) so I think we will be staying un…
  • HI FROM SEATTLE WHERE WE HAVE SOME KINDA FLULast night I barfed for the first time since me and Missy have been together. She has never known me to barf. She was hovering over me over the john and I said go outside bab…
  • A BETTER GROUP PHOTO
  • CHRISTMAS TIME AT THE STRICKLANDS!GOODBYE INDIANAPOLIS. It was a highly productive meeting and trip. We love you four more as time goes on we have that lifetime friendship that can be defined by our battle cry when we …
  • MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCHIt's snowing! Yay! Snowing here in the midwest too.
  • PLANES TRAINS AND MINIVANS
  • JUST WATCH THIS VIDEO There is nothing more personal and close to share with your friends than your own molecules. This video from tonight in Indianapolis has Jess, Mark, Robbie and Lauren. Love it.
  • BIRTHDAY PARTY GROUP PHOTOHere's the group photo from my bday dinner in Hermosa Beach on Thursday. From left to right (and flying), jason, my dad, Janey, brian, me, bunny, crystal, dj, tammy, dane, amy.Later we walked to…
  • QUESTION OF THE DAY Was the U.S. justified in launching an attack on Iraq, and if so, why? Also, are the Iraqi's better off today than they were under Saddam Hussein, and if so, why?
  • hi from indianapolis - i'll write more later!
  • 47On 12/6/1960 - I was born in Seattle, WA.At this age, I feel like I have the wisdom of having been through so many things and have gained wisdom, poise, and most of all patience. I feel relaxed, content, loved and mos…
  • THE OFFICIAL WEDDING PHOTOS! To make a super long story short, we 'officially' got married yesterday. Since neither of us are Canadian residents, and since Joe wasn't an ordained official minister - we didn't get the l…
  • WE HAVE STOCK AGAIN! JUST IN TIME FOR HOLIDAYS! Dude, if you are at all motivated to get a Lightsphere Universal or Puffer for the holidays, I would jump on it now because we have just received a shipment from the fact…
  • IF YOU HAVE A CORPORATION THIS WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF MONEY Forming a corporation is only the beginning of a HUGE mound of paperwork. It is important to keep corporate records, even if you are the only officer in the co…
  • THE FOUR SEASONS HOTEL CHAIN These hotels are not exceptionally fancy. If you look at the ceiling fan in our room, it's one you can get at Home Depot for about a hundred bucks. A Grand Hyatt or Ritz Carlton usually has…
  • THIS MAY BE WHY STRANGERS SAY HI AT AIRPORTSJust got the new quantcast ratings report. Quantcast is unlike Alexa which is all panel-based data, which means a random sample like Nielsen ratings. For random samples to co…
  • NOW BROADCASTING LIVE FROM SANTA BARBARADinner at DJ's house come join us! CLICK HERE
  • SOMETHING IS ODD ABOUT THIS PHOTO
  • MY TRAFFIC STATS!Before, I couldn't find out what my traffic was because it was buried under the umbrella of xanga. And alexa isn't that accurate because it only measures people who have the alexa toolbar in their brows…
  • RESPONSIBILITY AND DOSE OF REALITYEverybody- I need to say this. So many of you were saying that "Oh well, Julia's heart did not get healed, and this is 1) PROOF that God exists!" - or -2) "He works according to his pl…
  • ARRRRGH - MASSIVE SELLOUT SITUATION Crap! Crap! We are totally sold out on Puffers and Lightsphere Universals. The factory is trying to get caught up as we speak even this weekend as they run 24/7. You can get Puffe…
  • I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!We were watching a TV movie with this actress, and I couldn't really quite place what it was that made her look so odd, and I figured it out! Her eyeballs were put on backwards!So using the magi…

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