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  • patriot or traitor?By now you've probably heard that Scott McClellan has agreed to testify against President Bush regarding the shocking allegations that:1) Bush actually declassified a report so that reporters could lea…

  • oil crisis solution - it's electric So I got this electric scooter. It has a lot of torque! It goes up to about 35mph, and they say it will go about 50miles before needing to recharge. It is completely silent and the …

  • iceland rocked by earthquake! are these the end times?if so, what are you doing to get ready?Earthquakes in China. Tornados in the red states. This is confusing to me. If China is an atheist country, then I guess that…

  • opinion: are these the "last days"?This much I do know... I don't know. The more I don't admit to knowing, the smarter I get. Because if I feel that I don't know, then I am flexible enough to learn about everything, wi…

  • our ranch got featured in another home magazineThis ranch is getting a lot of press. I think because in so many ways it is an editorial story, it has the great geothermal system for the pool and the main building's air …

  • i couldn't lookWell finally - after a two week process of apple juice, supplements called A-F Betafood and a wild concoction of lemon juice, olive oil, grape juice and honey whipped up in a blender, after nearly two days…

  • if you know of any retailer selling a product called the "Flexidome" or "Lambency"Please(!) contact us! Right away - please. Just let us know the name/address/phone of the retailer. If you've bought one and have a rec…

  • gmail and google are unbeatable.The very in-tune people at GFI have been using a lot of Google's functions - like "reader" (where it will tell you if any of the blogs you follow have been changed) "Documents" where you c…

  • julia is home!!!Our little friend Julia is now out of the hospital and home following her heart transplant. Her mom said she's doing great. She's alert and playful, and life is getting a little more back to normal fo…

  • the myspace suicide and the patriot actThis has been so interesting to read about. I have been aware of the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" and all of its intricacies for a while now, but I thought it was primarily a Fed…

  • me and the mrs. are im-ing each other

    this is so funny----------------------melissaleecarlRodan did pretty good. he worked out for 35 minutes straightbut I was doing something really funny and Lindsay was like "ummm what are you saying to him?" it was funn…

  • got nothing to do but wait

    So, what are you guys doing tonight? Kinda boring laying here chewing gum waiting for my butt volcano to erupt. Missy is working on images from her horse show on the first floor. She is excited because people like her…

  • Lo Que El Dijo!

  • drank it!

    it wasn't bad. Now I'm laying on my right side typing sideways with my little air laptop. I feel ok. Waiting for the egg to hit the fan, so to speak

  • apprehension

    I think what is the worst part is that this process was two weeks in the making. And, um, reading on the internet how nasty the olive oil is to drink and how gross you feel afterwards.Waiting is the worst. Like, if I k…

  • update: OK at 3:15 I had the six capsules of Epsom Salts. Feeling ok! My burps don't taste salty so - so far so good!In about 20 minutes I'm going to eat the 1/2 Grapefruit. Wish me luck!

  • gross. can you believe i'm going to drink this?About two weeks ago, I had a pain in my right shoulder blade that was getting kind of out of control. So I went to Tiffany's chiropractor, and he was on it. He told me th…

  • 500gb internal drives for mac are here!Mine should be here Wednesday. I just put in a 320gb but 500gb is awesome. It's mostly the movies and the TV show downloads that take up so much disk space, but now that these th…

  • Montage, Pictage, WeedtageThis is an important video:

  • Two Beautiful Girls

  • THESE MIRRORS CAN POWER AS MANY AS 112,500 HOMES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!Bravo! This is brilliant! A 1,000 acre plant using concentrated sunlight to produce power. Whenever you fly, just look out your plane's window at…

  • my friend DJ is a bat-friendThat's DJ on the right wearing the bat suit. He is grabbing Mike Colon in the ass, thus the expression. DJ has always been a little strange. He just adopted a bat named "Orkin" I think tha…

  • whoa - segway has an offroad model

  • help with the weeding So I know you are curious as to how the weed situation is going. So what we're doing is this.We're letting a few of the horses walk around the property and they are good at eating the weeds and the…

  • chinese herbsI don't believe in nothing. I'm a registered republican after all! I BELIEVE! I BELIEVE!That means I believe a little bit in whatever so when it came to day five of this annoying raspy dry throat and feel…

  • i get some help with the weedsI didn't know whether to be happy or territorial when my wife came out with her gardening gloves to help me yank weeds. I had just been out there for about half an hour (I still have this c…

  • it sure is quiet and peaceful here!

  • you can get rich on the fluctuations *** READ COMMENT FIVE***This book is incredible. It discusses the effect that randomness has on our lives. The premise is that very little can be truly controlled, that everything …

  • weedsNow that I know what I am looking for, I notice weeds.I have a nice biosphere here. I pick the weeds, and the horsies eat them.

  • i am deeply saddened I have always deeply respected Ted Kennedy as a champion for the regular people. He always seems to be the guy who, in the crazy world of politics would say, "hey - wait a minute!". He seemed like …

  • wow - I'm tornI'm doing a gall-bladder cleanse (two week thing) which was recommended by Tif's chiropractor in Ohio. Turns out that my sore shoulder was referral pain from my clogged gall bladder. OK worth a try.So whi…

  • my drobo is healthy

  • colon cleansing - is there anything to it?I was just looking around the internet, and there are a lot of people who swear by colon cleansing. Has anybody here done it?When I look at this website, I get two reactions: 1)…

  • state of the desk report You know things are bad when you have to bring in another desk behind your desk because you don't have enough space. Lauren and I are working on organizing six years of bills and receipts into b…

  • no, we do not live in an igloo People unfamiliar with Canada think it is cold up here all the time. We actually are in a 'desert' valley. Just picture Lake Tahoe and the Napa Valley combined, and you have Kelowna.It wa…

  • go amy! I don't understand my friend Amy. Today she and Brian are doing the "World's Toughest Half Triathalon" (1.3 mile swim, 56 mile bike ride and a 13.1 mile TRAIL run) She called yesterday and said that the weathe…

  • pulling weeds is what I do for funYep! I have been spending hours and hours pulling weeds. Here's the explanation:Massive rainfalls have completely bogged our mulch, causing it to crumble. This of course took away the…

  • ok I said earlier that I was going to have an embargo on talking about the economy, but I just have to make this little peep.the market absolutely makes no sense. When determining where the balances will resolve (my key…

  • drobo - so far, so good! I have come to the opinion as hard drives get cheaper and smaller, they also get less reliable. I say that from experience, because I have had more drives fail lately than ever before in my life…

  • julia's heart is in, and it is beating!Can you even believe how amazing it is - in so many ways. Her new heart started on its own without any shocking.My friend Calvin Hayes was on the donor list for a long time waitin…

  • videoegg is decommissioning... soit's a drag that videoegg is no longer serving the videos. In their terms of service, it says that it can shut down and it did, but they give you some good notice. So we've been pulling…

  • kelownaranch.com website is up!We have already begun taking weddings for the most awesome spot in all of Kelowna to have an incredible event. We also are introducing our property to the local wedding industry because he…

  • this is it! Julia found a HEART!!!Many of you will remember the story of Julia Renz, the sweet, adorable, brave little girl with the heart problem. Tonight she gets her new heart! I cannot believe how amazing medical…

  • downward spiral - housing market crash causes credit crisis, which causes fed to inject liquidity (print money) which causes the USD to drop in value, which makes oil prices higher - repeat, repeatJust before an election…

  • "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. ... Now, watch this drive. ...How about bringing back the soldiers alive and then you can golf again? Two birds/one stone

  • au revoir, ohioWe are heading back home to Seattle tomorrow. It has been a really great trip despite the circumstances. Missy's grandmother died, and in an instant we had to jump on a plane and head back here to be wit…

  • absolutely great books I recommend I've had a voracious appetite for books lately. The more I read the more I want to read, and it's addicting. I'm reading about 2-3 books a week in the midst of writing my 3rd and…

  • Congrats Dane!

    Congrats Dane! pDNA is available now!My buddy Dane Sanders is always coming up with superior creative solutions for the photography industry, especially when it comes to compelling ideas for success. So I've been hearin…

  • i love this photo of my wife (Canon 5d - 70-200mm f2.8L) Anybody who knows her knows that she is a very sentimental person who loves to reminisce. Today we drove out to her childhood home, where she introduced herself t…

  • sarah marshall - hilarious movie! It was so good I would've made a u-turn to see it again. There are times I laughed so loud people in the theater jumped. The script was great, the acting was great. I really really li…

  • this camera is really great! I know a camera is good when it's the only one I carry for many things. Previously, I liked the Nikon little point and shoot because of the 28mm wide angle and the AA batteries. But what I …

  • here in ohio Papa John's pizza had a special 23 cent offer. Something about Lebron James. Anyway, a pizza with one topping was 23 cents. So throughout the day, there were news reports with helicopter videos showing th…

  • oh.

  • hitting it hard in ohioTiffany is getting ready to do a retailer tour to different cities to deepen relationships with our many new retail outlets. We're growing a lot, particularly internationally with the new weakness…

  • the credit crisis hits everybodyWell I just got a call the other day from my personal docent at American Express Centurion, the makers of that ever-elusive Black Card. They said that Amex is tightening up, and that even…

  • horseback trail riding at twin creek ranchOne of the most amazing things about the ranch I purchased is the land it is on. It is remarkably within minutes of town, but right on a hill overlooking an 88 mile long lake.I…

  • the last year Clinton was in office, gas was under a dollar a gallon

  • it's a stockbroker's guitar! My friend, recording artist Jill Sobule was over at my L.A. Condo the other day, and I had my Parker Fly guitar hanging on the wall, and she stared at it kind of confused as to why I have one…

  • new estore color scheme!I wasn't all about the lime green color scheme, so I had our web designers at solid cactus go over it with a more muted tone. Plus we got to add our super fun friend and assistant-in-law Kristina…

  • amy is still in her 20's! Mid 20's now!This lovable goofball in the middle is one of my best friends, Amy. I met her through Janey and while Janey and I hit it off immediately, her pal Amy was reaaaallly quiet. She wa…

  • here come the 747's to KelownaIt is so amazing to have found this ranch because it is like being way out in the country on our 12.5 acres of pastures and wilderness, and to the left of us is thousands of acres of crown l…

  • monet!!!She can be so bull-headed. When she doesn't want to be ridden anymore, she does this thing (I've only heard about - Jesse took these photos) where she kicks her rear feet up. She doesn't exactly "buck" as in li…

  • maiden voyage of the hms scooter Maiden Voyage of the Scooter from GARY FONG on Vimeo.

  • freebird

  • why the pressure to tithe? In many religions, there is a concept called, "tithing" where you are mandated of your own good graces to give a percentage of everything you earn to your group. This has baffled me for years,…

  • lexmark 4875 printer - bombs software repeatedly - gross! Well, a good part of my evening has been spent wrestling with the Lexmark 4875 printer. Every time I try to print something, it bombs the application. Their web…

  • lululemon - the tipping point My assistant Lauren says, "Lululemon is awesome because it makes your butt look good". Everybody in Kelowna wears Lululemon. It's amazing. I was first introduced to Lululemon when I was i…

  • ferguson the pig undergoes training!!!