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Seen here is a Soothie brand pacifier made from medical grade silicone.  I am a little embarrassed to say this, but up until this weekend, my daughter relied on one of these to fall asleep at night.  Its not like she had to bring it every where she went, in fact for more than a […]

Before Neat Image

After Neat Image
Today I came across this Photoshop Plug-in called Neat Image. It does a beautiful job reducing grain. I’ve used several techniques in the past to achieve this, including the Median filter and blurring separate channels individually. But nothing I have tried before comes close to this. It […]

The other day, in her mother’s basement, my wife uncovered an old folder of mine from senior year in college. It was literally bursting at the seams with all kinds papers and prints. Treasures and trash from a bygone, idealistic era. Among other things, I discovered inside, some xeroxed pages out of […]

I did an image search for hitchhiker and this was the best one I found.
I’m not sure why, maybe because the weather is getting warmer, but in the past week I have passed by two hitchhikers along my daily route. There was a time when I would have helped out at least one of […]

My daughter (not quite three years old) got a hold of the digital camera tonight while I was making dinner and snapped these.  I have had to coach her a little on keeping her fingers away from the lens and holding down the button long enough to get a shot, but the framing and choice […]

The other day I caught a report on NPR about the benefits of reading to and conversing with your children. Of course it isn’t the first I’ve heard of this, but these people had some very compelling facts and figures to back up their theories.
We recently discovered this series of books called The Alphapets […]