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If there's a photo that tells the story of my daughter, it's the one on the wall in my kitchen. Blue eyes wide and shining. Mouth opened wide to show off Chiclet teeth. Nose scrunched up the way her father's does when he laughs.
And skin absolutely coated in dirt.
But it isn't that picture that this column is about.
Instead I'm marveling over another photo, discovered by happenstance as I combed through an overwhelming archive of digital images on my computer looking for a copy of "dirty face" for a project. Because like a good portion of photos that I've snapped of my daughter, that one was captured while I was wearing two hats. Mom and reporter.
In my archives are hundreds of photos taken as the latter, many of which ended up in the pages of the Democrat at one time or another. It's surreal at times to know that across this county there are hundreds of cut-out photos plastered on refrigerators and pasted in scrapbooks with my name below them.
Beside a few seconds that I spent gathering the requisite caption information, for many of those people it's the only connection we have.
Many of those people.
But not all.
Because as I worked my way through the album from the first ever Jeff Fest in Jeffersonville, on the hunt for the digital copy of the photo hanging on my kitchen wall, something caught my eye.
A girl, blowing bubbles.
I remembered the photo; remembered taking it, remembered submitting it to the paper, remembered it appearing in the paper.
I'd simply forgotten who was in it.
Because when I took it, that girl was just a cute girl blowing bubbles. Today she's more like an addition to my family, the teenage babysitter/adopted big sister to my daughter. For two summers, she's helped my daughter while away the non-school hours so I can concentrate on work. For a year and a half, she's joined us on car trips and movie nights, she's carved Halloween pumpkins and made me birthday cupcakes.
She's walked by a photo of my dirt-covered daughter hundreds of times, and not once did it occur to me that the subject of the OTHER photo I shot that day is standing in my kitchen. For once, I know how the kid who's got a newspaper clipping with my name on it turns out.
It may be time to frame that photo.


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With news of Snooki releasing a second book (yes we know it's incredible), CNN's Anderson Cooper had a look at her debut book A Shore Thing. To pay her work the proper respect, Anderson read some excerpts live on his CNN show.
"I've made fun of Snooki's writing before, this is true, but now that she has another book coming, I think it's time to reassess," the host of Anderson Cooper 360 said.
Hilarious video indeed. And as Anderson points out, Snooki has now written two more books than Anderson. Good on you Snook.

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HD is the Defacto standard for you LCD TVs and Home entertainment. 1080p or FullHD Movies is the best that is available today for the end-user. HD is addictive. Once you watch something over HD, there's no looking back at SD.
The Bad thing about buying a full HD projector is the cost. A decent one can cost you more than a grand, in fact good ones will cost in multiples. So how do we fulfill the HD Projector dream? Yes, Build it yourself.
Thanks to the tutorial presented by techzilla, it's cheap to build. watch the video.
In case Video doesn't work, click here to open in new Window.
The starting point for the self rigged 1080p HD projector is a 120V S15 Mega-Kit from Lumenlab. The Lumenlab kit gives a leg up with all the different components for the projector setup. The kit includes:
- S15 Projection Lens Triplet to focus the light.
- Fresnel lens to shape the reflected light
- LL/Vue 400w eBallast powering the 400W 6500K bulb.


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