Daddy Types: December 2012 Archives

December 2012 Archives

December 26, 2012

Daddy Types European Vacation

I hope everyone out there is having a happy holiday season. The clan and I are just setting out to the airport for a 3-hour tour of France, a 3-hour tour. I'd say what could go wrong, but the last...
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December 25, 2012

Like-A-Pipe-Bike By Bruno Gavira

If you're looking for one more quick Christmas present project you can slam together in the garage while the cider's mulling, Spanish designer Bruno Gavira's got just the thing. It's a walking bike made entirely out of PVC pipe....
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December 24, 2012

The Sprout Snooze-A-Thon Is The Clock For Toddlers

The artist and musician Christian Marclay's epic, 24-hour, real-time film, The Clock, has been playing at museums and galleries around the world or almost two years now. It uses hundreds of film clips showing clocks and watches to mark...
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Bun B's Rap Coloring & Activity Book

"Game is sad. He wants a new tattoo. Draw him one that covers up his butterfly." If ever a tumblr was destined for a book deal, it's Bun B's Rap Coloring Book. And of course, it happened the week...
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December 21, 2012

Snap-Together Foam Alligator By Horst Diener

I'm not finding a lot of info--actually none--about this online, so I'll just float it out there. It's a covered foam alligator pillow/toy from 1968 by the German product designer Horst Diener. The six segments snap together in various...
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This Clorox Dads Commercial Is Outrageous

ly funny. And you know what's even more outrageous? That I'm only finding out about it today, more than a year after it was released. I mean, come on, a guy shouldn't have to watch TV, open the occasional publicist...
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December 19, 2012

I Would Steal From Your Parked-On-The-Street Stroller Just On Principle

Oh hi, Park Slope mom who left your stroller parked, unattended--and laden with $700 worth of tote bags, iPhones, wallets, keys, and bougies--on the street outside your home daycare for half an hour. Did you just have a baby? If...
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Monday In The Studio With Larry

List of TV Shows Mandy Patinkin ACTS In That I Have Not Seen Nor Do I Plan To, Ever 1. Chicago Hope 2. Homeland 3. "Children Will Listen," the finale from Stephen Sondheim's 1988 fairy tale mashup musical Into...
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Aigle Royal With Babies

They got the metric system in Quebec; they don't know WTF a golden eagle is. Also, I had this video on mute the first 25 or so times I watched it. Big mistake....
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December 18, 2012

The Youngest Youngerman

While flipping through an amazing new book on the life and work of the artist Agnes Martin the other night, I realized there is a kid in this random rooftop photograph [by Hans Namuth, but still]. In the mid-1950s...
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December 17, 2012

MONDO X Miami Vitali

"FLEA MARKET FIND"?? Mondo Blogo is just mocking me at this point, is what's happening. Miami Wrap-Up 2012 [mondo-blogo]...
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December 16, 2012

'With A Gun In My Face'

Tech designer, entrepreneur, and dad Ryan Freitas' firsthand experience with gun violence feels really powerful. It's direct, reasonable, and, hopefully, persuasive for those who might feel that there is nothing to do or nothing to be done about gun regulation...
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December 15, 2012

Child-Sized Orkney Chairs

The International Herald Tribune has a little feature on Orkney Chairs, a type of make-do, homemade chairs built by residents of the Orkney Islands, originally from carved driftwood and woven straw, because trees on the islands were so scarce....
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December 14, 2012

Holy Smokes.

I can't even. those kids. those families. post-pickup update : so picking up my own kids from school and preschool today, it was totally normal; they clearly have no idea, and they just bounced right into the car, without a...
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Sounds Like These Nap Nanny Infant Recliners Are Killin' Babies

Even after one death that led to a 2010 recall and a redesign to strengthen the 3-point harness, the Nap Nanny and related Chill infant recliners are apparently killin' babies. Now the CPSC is suing Baby Matters, the manufacturer,...
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Bugaboo Takes Impending Recall Announcements About Its Popping-Out Handles Situation Very Seriously

Have you picked up your Cameleon or Donkey in bassinet mode by the padded handle and had one side pop out, giving you a momentary shock but not injuring your child, and then you stuck it back in, and made...
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How Do You Tell Your Kids About Mr. Hankey?

I figure now while we're still in the middle of Hannukah is a good time to ask. In our house, we've just made Philip Glass a holiday tradition from the start. The real problem, though, unless you own the...
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December 12, 2012

Cold Storage Philippe Starck X Target Banana Car

Speaking of expensive things made of cheap, yellow plastic: Here is a mint-in-box example of the acid banana-shaped ride-on toy designed by Philippe Starck for Target in 2001, being sold on eBay by someone whose business model seems to be...
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4yo Car Tester Stuck In Lexus Trunk Triggers 700,000 Car Recall

So when you're a car tester, you can put your kid in the trunk and call it research? What a boondoggle! Consumer Reports tester Jake Fisher's 4yo son was eager to test the inside trunk release lever in the...
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Cat Power On A Good Day

Here is Cat Power fake-bumming some 2nd graders right the hell out--until someone mentions pudding, and then they're all, "YAY!" The tiny cloud has moved on from their lives! I don't know, I guess I expected Cat Power to be...
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Pequenitos In Portugal, Portugal Dos Pequenitos

I'm sorry, did I miss an entire day? I've been trying to wrap my head around the amazing photographs that DT photomaster DT sent along with some offhand comment like, "Hey, playhouse with toy Moorish cannons?" and "thought you...
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December 10, 2012

Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red PR

Now that they've retired [Where's Jeff? Not at the barber, that's for sure!], and taken their last victory tour/lap of Australia, The Wiggles have put "The Big Red Car" on eBay, with all proceeds going to support SIDS and...
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December 8, 2012

Aleppo Rebel Dad

Rebel dad in Aleppo takes his son home from Friday Prayers in Aleppo, Syria. image: Odd Anderson/AFP-Getty via nyt I don't know what your Friday was like, but sheesh, think about the folks in Syria, and your complaints should...
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December 7, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: L'Edition Sperme

We missed a couple of weeks, but here are a handful of headlines from the worlds of health, safety, and parenting, bundled up to freak you out all at once, on your own schedule. It's the Daddy Types Friday Freakout:...
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December 6, 2012

Worn Leather Clek, Or Six Months In A Black Leather Booster Seat

We have in our midst several Daddy Types readers who are also automotive journalists of the most discerning kind, folks whose job it is to test cars and car gear on a regular, even long-term basis, and to form highly...
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December 5, 2012

Wagoing, Wagoing, Cadillac CTS Wagone

There may come a day in the hilariously unbalanced relationship between auto executives, publicists, and the fanboi press, some carblogger may finally notice the polite yet pained patience of his hosts, and he'll remember/realize that this is not a...
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The Coming War On Spongebob Christmas

NICKELODEON DEBUTS FIRST FULL-LENGTH STOP-MOTION SPECIAL, IT'S A SPONGEBOB CHRISTMAS!, DEC. 6, AT 8:00 P.M. (ET/PT) John Goodman Lends His Voice as Santa Claus in Half-Hour Special; Companion DVD, CD and Ebook Round Out Holiday CheerThere's a Spongebob Christmas...
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Parenting By Drone Meet Moore's Law

Oh, the sweet drone permasurveillance future cannot come soon enough. At least for Paul Wallich, who wrote in IEEE Spectrum about his first [!] attempt to build an Arduino-powered, video-chatcam and GPS-equipped, quadcopter drone to follow his son down...
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December 3, 2012

Bun In The Easy Bake Oven

An 8th grade girl is running a petition complaining that the girly purpleness of the newly redesigned Easy Bake Oven is discriminatory against her 4-yo brother, which will either make him all girly, or keep him from learning the...
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I'd Like To Welcome DT's Newest Guest Blogger, The Duke Of Cambridge

But I can't. HRH said he'd already lined up another gig. You win this round, Dadcentric! I might make a @dadcentric announcement soon. Got some "new" guys coming on board. About to get Dream Team up in here.— Jason Avant...
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Deep Cover

Amazing investigative reporting by @BuzzFeedAndrew finds this conclusive evidence, from 2001, that Barack Obama's whole, "palling around with terrorists, socialist crypto-Muslim past" was all an elaborate ruse to hide his true nature, as a Yankee Doodlin', umbrella stroller pushin',...
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