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CHAPTER 4
A great name for this chapter would have
been “Pimp My Ride” (after the popular
MTV show of the same name), seeing as this
chapter is all about customizing Lightroom 4
to your own personal tastes. Kids these days
call this “pimping” (by the way, I just checked
with a nearby kid to confirm this and appar-
ently that is correct. I said, “Hey, what does
it mean if something is pimped?” and he said,
“It means it's been customized.” But then
I called my older brother Jeff, who had spent
a number of years in the U.S. Navy, and asked
him what it means if something is pimped
and, surprisingly enough, he had an entirely
different answer, but I'm not so sure our mom
would be pleased with him for telling this to
his impressionable younger brother). So, at this
point, I wasn't sure if using the word “pimped”
would be really appropriate, so I did a Google
search for the word “pimped” and it returned
(I'm not making this up) more than 2,500,000
pages that reference the word “pimped.” I
thought I would go ahead and randomly click
on one of those search result links, and I was
pleasantly surprised to see that it took me
to a page of totally customized cars. So, at
that point, I felt pretty safe, but I realized that
using the term “pimped” was kind of “past
tense,” so I removed the “ed” and got a totally
different result, which led me to a webpage
with a “Pimp Name Generator” and, of course,
I couldn't leave without finding out what
my pimp name would be (just in case I ever
wrote a book about customizing cars or my
brother's life), and it turned out to be “Silver
Tongue Scott Slither ” (though personally I
was hoping for something more like “Snoop
Scotty Scott”).
