Category archive: about daddytypes

November 16, 2009

Announcing The Daddy Types Footmuff & Fleece Emporium

The nights are getting colder, K2 is getting bigger, and we're getting leaner, at least gear-wise. I put a few choice, fluffy pieces of gear on eBay last night. Here they are in order of brand-spanking newness: Here's a set...
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Dude, Where's My Car Service?

Once like four years ago, Disney invited me to a blogger lunch meeting in New York and sent a car service to pick me up. At the last minute, instead of her coming across town to playbysit, I dropped the...
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November 8, 2009

As Finally Seen On TV

"I just saw the bestest thing ever on TV, and it's only $19.95!" When the kid comes bouncing in to tell me this, barely able to control her excitement, a lot of thoughts pile up in my mind: we certainly...
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November 2, 2009

A Still More Glorious Dawn Is Here

"Whoop! Ahhhh. Whoop Whoop! Aaahh Ahhhh. Apple pie catch." K2 is wandering around the house singing the Carl Sagan song....
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October 29, 2009

Vintage Playground Indy 500 Simulator

It looks kind of unwieldy, but this sweet piece of OG playground equipment is only 4' long and 2' high, small enough for toddlers--and small enough to ship via Greyhound. Even better--for me, anyway, I'm sure it means jack...
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October 21, 2009

K2: 'Listen A Ziggy. Listen A Ziggy, Pleeease.'

In anticipation of the FTC's assinine blog payola disclosure regulations which are scheduled to take effect at some point I can't be bothered to look up, and which really can kiss my blogging and occasional old-media-writing ass, because I came...
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October 20, 2009

What's That, You Say? DT Comments Should Be Back

Over the weekend, the commenting system at DT crashed after several hundred people tried to weigh in simultaneously on the two-year-old subject of babies duct-taped to walls. I have no idea, either. Comments should be working again now, so...
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The Golden Girls

After her bath K2 came running down the hall, followed by my laughing, apologetic wife who said, "She picked it all out herself." "It" in this case was her big sister's flannel pajama top, way too big, with the collar...
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October 19, 2009

Where The Moody Emos Are

The kid and I just got back from Where The Wild Things Are. I'd spent the weekend shuttling her around to birthday parties, pinging her to see if she was, in fact, equipped to handle the film. [I knew she'd...
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October 15, 2009

Dads Across America Tonight Are Hugging Their Kids, Checking The Moorings On Their Experimental Helium Balloon Projects

I don't know about your cockamamie, gigantic, mylar balloon project, but mine is not in our backyard; it'll be in the Pantheon or the Grand Palais. Or outer space. Still, I made the kid promise me she wouldn't climb...
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October 8, 2009

Inflatable Solar System Just Like The White House

So for the last few months, the wife has been working on a big astronomy event at the White House, which just went down tonight. [High five, baby, you pulled it off!] She had 150 middle school kids, a...
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September 25, 2009

Underpants!

That's the whole joke. Get it? It's funnier when K2 says it....
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September 15, 2009

Welcome Back To School, Sickos!

It hasn't been a week, and the kid's already home with a fever. Which might help her not catch the pink eye they just notified us about....
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September 9, 2009

P-L-A-Y, R-E-A-D

So K2 and I are at one of those Soft Play Areas made out of carved, airbrushed wrestling mats that I've blogged about before, when I notice that the letters on the big foam blocks above spell out a...
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September 8, 2009

Holy Smokes, Taking The Kid To Her First Day Of Kindergarten

I sure hope she doesn't get indoctrinated into anything....
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September 3, 2009

Dust Jackets, Also George Aiken Didn't Write A Parenting Book

I know she's only been around for a year and a half, but it feels like we've been bogged down in a dust jacket war with K2 since the 1960's. Once she discovered books, her perpetual first action has...
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September 2, 2009

To The DT Reader Who Sat Next To My Mom & Sister At The Open Yesterday,

thanks for making their day. Or at least for making them think that someone not related to me reads Daddy Types. And good luck with the bunk beds, let us know how it works out....
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August 27, 2009

Playgrounder Comes Out To Play

Before the kid was born, and I had a hard time finding any baby gear I could stand to live with, I thought I'd keep a list, so the next guy Googling around for an industrial-style changing table could use...
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August 3, 2009

Creative Playthings Store By Studio Works

I'm trying to remember how I found my way to architect Lester Walker's website, but I don't have any trouble remembering what stuck there: the sweet, futuristic retail store that Studio Works designed for Creative Playthings in 1969. Studio...
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July 25, 2009

Caulk Sucker Blues

First up, caulk is evil. It is Vonnegut's Ice Nine, Spiderman's nemesis Venom, that mirror in The Matrix, that dropped vial in Moonraker. Alright, I'm clearly scraping the bottom of the analogical barrel now, but it's a disgusting, cascading mess...
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July 15, 2009

Drinking Games

K2 will drink anything from anywhere, except milk, which has to come in a bottle. We've been working on that, and over the weekend, we went cold turkey. So far, it's not going well. After working through our random...
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July 2, 2009

They Might Be Patriots: A Schoolhouse Rockin' Weekend

We're going to take a little family trip to Philadelphia for the Independence Day weekend, so posting may be a bit scarce here on Daddy Types. Meanwhile, I've loaded some appropriate educational materials onto the iPod to help the kid...
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June 30, 2009

Finally, The DT Juddy Crib

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I just posted some photos from a few months ago of the finished crib/toddler bed...
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June 25, 2009

Last Call For Token Father's Day Stories

Have you come across a token Father's Day story from a TV station, magazine, or newspaper? Have you put a link to it in the DT Token Father's Day Contest so you can have a chance to win a Nintendo...
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June 20, 2009

The DT Token Father's Day Story Contest!

Alright, this one will be quick. DT's minivan correspondent JJ Daddy-O has challenged us to a contest, and I think we can't back down. So get out there and find the most ridiculously patronizing Father's Day story you can find,...
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June 10, 2009

On The Question Of Quiet Or Too Quiet?

If it's a 1-yo we're talking about, the answer is almost inevitably "too quiet." I was just trying to get some work done before my dad got into town this afternoon, and so I really wanted K2 to be...
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May 27, 2009

Yanmama: Japan's Having It's Own Jamie Lynn & Bristol Moment

According to neojaponisme, my favorite source for gaijin analysis, Japan is having a yanmama boom. Whether the yan in yanmama is from "young" or from yankii, the Japanese equivalent of white trash, a few young celebrities are having kids really...
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May 14, 2009

The Case For Regifting

This idea of regifting has been eating at me for months now, ever since a discussion with a parent at the kid's preschool about how, between family, church, work, neighbors and school, it seems like there's at least one but...
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May 11, 2009

Daddy Types: Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose

As happens so often here at Daddy Types, I recently received an unsolicited press packet about a revelatory, new baby product being prepared for the market. At the bottom of the email, however, was this restriction which, when asked about...
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May 8, 2009

Always Be Clocking

You know how people always complain that they wish they had an extra hour in the day? Total bullshit. What we need is two hours less. Personally, I'd put the three hours between five and eight PM in a room,...
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May 6, 2009

Daddy Talked, Adults Educated

A quick recap of the Adult Education lectures last night at Union Hall: it was awesome. Not quite knowing what to expect, I was kind of unsure how my Sesame Street timeline [aka Can you tell me how to get--how...
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May 4, 2009

Daddy Talks, Tues. @ Adult Ed: Children's Educational Television, An Illustrated History

This month, the topic for Adult Ed, the awesome, esoteric, funny, and useless lecture series--in fact, it's "Brooklyn's favorite useless lecture series"--is Ambivalent Parenting. I know, right? I feel so targeted, too. But I'm actually on the program. Here's the...
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May 1, 2009

Where's The Outrage??

So a Wisconsin grandma and volunteer crisis counselor makes a coloring book in 2003 to help kids in her town deal with a tornado strike, and five years and 100 days [...] later Fox News throws a FEMA hissy fit...
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April 29, 2009

What Do You Make Of This? A Pteradactyl! Custom Crafty Purse

The kid is a non-stop art machine. We are literally drowning in art, which comes home from school in totebag-sized loads, and which has transformed every box that passes through the house. [My printer cartridge box? Now a duplex...
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April 16, 2009

Oh, BTW, The Juddy Crib Is Done

I guess now that K2's been sleeping in it for a couple of months, it's safe and stable enough to mention that the juddy crib is done. Stay tuned for some more glamour shots and lessons learned. Besides the...
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April 14, 2009

Where The Wild Things Weren't

OK, the White House Easter Egg Roll was awesome and all, but for our storytime, we had some knucklehead soccer player from DC United who wouldn't show the kids the book, and then would wonder why they didn't say...
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April 8, 2009

Just Give'em A Cardboard Box To Play With

So a publicist sent me [1] a Nintendo DSi the other day, which I still haven't opened yet. Though I'm a video game culture guy, I'm not really a video game guy. And I try to be upfront with...
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April 1, 2009

Novelty & Birth Order: A Negative Correlation Theorem

It's four o'clock, and this is the first post of the day. We're collecting a helluvalot of data, that's for sure, and the analytical model is still in the rough stages, but the operating theory about why birth order matters...
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March 16, 2009

Learning To Interpret A Baby's Cries

Some parents look to Science to translate their babies' cries. This is a mistake. The attentive parent will, with a little experience and practice, eventually be able to distinguish between his child's cries, and thus he can be confident that...
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February 20, 2009

DT Friday Freakout: K2 Edition

You know, because K2 chose this week to basically challenge Death at every turn, I've had a hard time freaking out over anything the hyperbolic science reporting industry can come up with, but I'll try: The NY Times reports that...
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February 18, 2009

The Theory Of Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Watching Philip Glass On Sesame Street

Some day you'll say "Sure, three. Protons, neutrons, and electrons, why?" and your kid will look at you and laugh right in your old-timey, went to school in the 20th century face. Because she'll be all, "But dad, Garrett Lisi's...
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February 15, 2009

Scrubbed, Sterilized And Disinfected

At some point, you'll surprise yourself because not only will it be no big deal, but you'll actually count yourself lucky that you only needed a slotted spoon when someone dropped a Baby Ruth in your pool or tub....
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January 26, 2009

How About That Obama?? DT Comments Are/May Be Back

Our long international nightmare may finally be over. You may now be able to tell the world how wack a $1,000 table that basically dares kids to draw on it is. After a week-plus of broken comments and tags to...
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January 20, 2009

By The Time We Got To Obamastock

The kid and I went to the inauguration this morning. We had no stroller ourselves, but decided to avoid the stroller-hating mob on the Mall and head straight for the Lincoln Memorial. I thought that'd be a good place...
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January 16, 2009

So I Finished The Juddy Crib

Long-time readers of Daddy Types might remember my grand plan to make a sweet, minimalist toddler bed for the kid out of thick slabs of plywood. The design was an adaptation of a Donald Judd daybed [which is visible...
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January 9, 2009

DIY Pre-School & Playground, Topaz Internment Camp, Delta, Utah

The Central Utah Relocation Center near Delta was later renamed Topaz Camp, after Topaz Mountain, which loomed over it to the west. When it opened on Sept. 11, 1942, several rows of tarpaper barracks had been finished and outfitted...
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December 28, 2008

Your Hair Will Someday Be Tall And Pretty!

The wife didn't watch the show that much, so she doesn't understand the sharpness of my pain when she says K2 needs a haircut because she looks "like that kid on The Simpsons."...
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December 24, 2008

Daddy's Gonna Stop Typing For A Couple Of Days

We flew to my mom's [she of the handknit iPhone and hand-crocheted blanket fame] in Salt Lake City Monday. Our non-stop flight helped miss all the weather. K2 screamed for 45 min and slept for 3 hrs, but the bar...
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December 22, 2008

If When K2 Ran The White House

My wife's sisters and brother got into town for Christmas, so we went on a tour of the West Wing at the White House. [Jean's been on assignment from NASA to the White House since just before K2 was...
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December 18, 2008

Teddy Bear-Shaped Garbage Bags Are Not Helping

I know it'll help her kick little Philippine kids' butts in the New Depression, but it still bugs that K2 loves to play in the garbage so much. Turn your back for a second, and she's pulled out all...
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December 10, 2008

A Quick Study Of Albanian Lego Sub-Machine Guns

We're not hippie freaks about it, but we don't let the kid have toy guns, play with toy guns, or pretend that she's playing with a gun. When she started pointing sticks and Lego structures at us and looking...
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December 8, 2008

Have You Seen Me? Stalk The Marc Jacobs x Bugaboo, Get A DT-shirt!

Alright, people, how long will it take for a Marc Jacobs for Bugaboo Bugaboo to turn up in the wild? I've got a sweet, sweet daddytype t-shirt prototype in a never-produced color [red, orange, navy, pink maybe?] for the...
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December 5, 2008

DT Freakout Friday: No Strollers, No Peace Edition

What's the baby and parenting world coming to? Well for one thing, if you joke about the Obama inauguration's stroller ban to a Washington Post reporter, a hundred irate strangers will email you, calling you a shallow, self-centered parent so...
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November 27, 2008

Eames Walker

Thanks to everyone for your advice, experience, questions, tips, comments, support, suggestions, complaints, and generosity. I hope you and your family have a happy Thanksgiving....
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November 19, 2008

Kibbeh! Kibbeh Kibbeh Kibbeh!

I was reading somewhere last week that research shows that between 6 and 12 months, a kid can learn hundreds of words, even though they're not yet able to talk themselves. So though it was tempting to take a...
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November 10, 2008

The School Search

Regular readers will have noticed a drop in posting volume recently. Myself, I have noticed a steady increase in the number of open browser tabs and flagged-yet-unread/unanswered emails with tips, questions, and press releases. I usually try to tee up...
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November 5, 2008

Hmm, Am I Missing Something About This Obama Thing?

Because so far, it's not working for me. So last night after the big speech, we're feeling pretty good, getting ready for bed, and my wife mentions all the bowls from the Obama cookies we made, "I'll do the dishes...
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November 1, 2008

"Panel No. 59: In the North, the Negro had freedom to vote."

Sunday afternoon, the kid was kind of high, and she'd been acting up all day, putting herself at repeated risk of not being allowed to go to the big Boo at the Zoo party last night if she kept it...
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October 31, 2008

The Kid Designed Her Own Halloween Costume This Year

Until she went to the dinosaur museum in St. George, Utah on our visit to the grandparents, the kid was going to be that easiest of all Halloween staples--a ghost. Then suddenly, a few days after we got back,...
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October 30, 2008

B-O-L-O-G-N-A Juice

That's not all it was, but it was a reminder, as if I needed one, of the downside of "I can do it all by myself." The other day, the kid wanted a snack. Not just any snack, though, but...
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October 24, 2008

Meet Little Jeroen, Dutch Modernist Hillbilly Child With No Pants

Now I like modern architecture and the Dutch and the babies as much as the next guy--probably even more. But it's not the wood stove, or the firewood that looks like it was picked up from the forest floor...
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October 23, 2008

Duly Noted

Time: Just now. Place: Right here. Me: Hey Kid, time to get out of the bath. Kid: OK. Me: Get your pajamas on, and then come watch this Obama thing with me. Kid: No thanks. I'm not as instrested in...
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October 16, 2008

The Straws Are Rockets Firing Up To Kill The Meteors

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Someone's Been Playing With My Missile Command..., originally uploaded by daddytypes. See, that's the grass...
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October 14, 2008

If You're On Our Flight This Afternoon, I Apologize In Advance

I think K2 must be cutting an upper tooth while contracting the flu and food poisoning and growing pains, because the last 24 hours have been the single worst day and night of her short life. She was an inconsolable...
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October 13, 2008

Wow, Did The Kid Love Digging Up This Fake Dinosaur Skeleton

Somewhere in the past few years, a farmer in the city my in-laws retired to, St. George, Utah, found a motherlode of super-detailed dinosaur tracks and fossils, and they built an entire museum around them. Just like that. So...
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October 10, 2008

DT Freakout Of Town Edition

We're traveling this weekend, landed in Las Vegas late last night, drive-thru In 'n Out, and on to St George, Utah for a little volcano hiking and grandparent time. Posting will be a little light, or at least a little...
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October 7, 2008

Curry Rice. K2 Eats Curry Rice.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Curry Rice Bento Boxes, originally uploaded by SnoopyBento. I'm sort of getting used to K2...
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September 27, 2008

Well, She WAS Born In Washington...

To our surprise, the kid said she wanted to skip story time last night to watch a few minutes of the presidential debate with us. She ended up watching intently for almost an hour on our bed before she finally...
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September 25, 2008

School's Out?

We're in the middle of a "don't want to go to preschool today" standoff this morning, so posting might be a little light. has this ever happened to anyone in the history of preschool? [update: aha, maybe she can't go...
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September 19, 2008

Orange You Glad It's Not Pink Or Blue?

One of the biggest losses of my recent hard drive crash was the interview I did a while back with Pamela Paul about Parenting, Inc., her awesome and revealing book on the Baby Industrial Complex. See, rather than try to...
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August 26, 2008

Whoops, Daddy Types When His Hard Drive Stops Making That Horrible Clicking & Scraping Sound

the one that means he gets to give some guy in a clean room bunny suit $1800 again to poke through the photos he hadn't backed up. When I was scheduling my trip to the Apple store to drop this...
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August 14, 2008

Don't Forget To Enter The DT WTF? Licensed Product Drawing By Friday

midnight east coast Friday, that is Right now, the odds are ridiculously good that you could get some kind of Yo Gabba Gabba key chain accessory... it's calling your name......
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August 11, 2008

Global Warming? I'll Take Two, Please

Seriously, if it means from now on, DC in August will feel like Monterey in September, I'll leave the Yukon idling next to the marina parking lot while I fill the ski boat up again. Posting will resume after we...
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August 6, 2008

No Hippies Here, Just Post-Vaccination Fever Sufferers

K2 just went to the doctor yesterday for her 6mo checkup and shots, so she's a feverish, cranky mess today, even with the Motrin. Combined with her post-roadtrip nap disruption, posting is obviously a little slow today. So is fixing...
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August 3, 2008

Grandparent Gifts And Your/Their Childhood Memories

Dan Beachy-Quick [great name] has a nice, unresolved essay in the NY Times about the relationship between his childhood memories of his father and his own experience as a father himself. The story hinges on his dad's penchant for sending...
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July 31, 2008

Nursemaid's Elbow? How About Ear-Piercing Scream-Inducing Dislocated Elbow?

Some vacation. I find that the days end up so packed with big events, I get behind on the blogging. Like how I didn't get to write about Monday's flat tire at the Spiral Jetty until Tuesday night. And how...
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July 27, 2008

Ayum-Day, Aby-Baby! Ip-skay The Unes-Pray Before The Oadtrip-Ray!

With K2 now literally demanding solid food whenever we sit down to eat, I'm reminded again of the direct cause & effect relationship between what goes in a baby's mouth and what--or how and when, really--it comes out. I'd even...
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July 24, 2008

DT On Location: ATV-Riding Daughters of Utah Pioneers

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Daughters of Utah Pioneers riding on an ATV, originally uploaded by daddytypes. Pioneer Day in...
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DT On Location: Pioneer Day Festival In Ivins, Utah

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } jeans quilt for sale in the Ivins town Pioneer Day celebration, originally uploaded by daddytypes....
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July 23, 2008

Hey IE Users, Does Your Daddytypes.com Look Like This?

So I just heard from a regular reader that all the posts are missing when he opens the site in Internet Explorer. Does that happen to anyone else? Any sense of when it started? If you've missed the posts...
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July 21, 2008

DT's First Class Advice For Flying

So Saturday we flew out from Washington, DC to Utah for a couple of weeks to see various grandparents--and the Spiral Jetty, of course, but that won't be until next week. No matter how many times we do it, flying...
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July 13, 2008

Not Amish, Not Uma: DT Comments Week In Review

Changing the backend software here at Daddy Types has resulted in many valuable comments getting flagged by the spam filter. While I look for a solution, I've been wading through several thousand spams a day, pulling out the legitimate comments....
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July 7, 2008

Olan Olafur Mills

Unless I can rally the troops into some late '70s Sunday Best, and can find an Olan Mills or Sears Portrait Studio with one of those bookcase backgrounds, this snapshot, taken at Olafur Eliasson's show at P.S.1 one Sunday...
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The Daddy Types Guide For When Not To Start Revamping Your Blog Templates

1. At midnight the night your wife leaves for her big speech at a big astrophysics nerdcon. 2. uh, actually that's all I got so far. update ahh. clearly, I'm missing the concept--or several concepts, more like-- when it comes...
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June 30, 2008

Feeling Pretty Good At The End Of The Day

We were at MoMA the other day, the kids and I, and when we'd had our fill of watching Spiral Jetty--the kids' first visit is in a couple of weeks--we got up, turned the corner, where another dark, grainy...
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June 26, 2008

Dada Types

The kid just told me this joke: "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Sun." "Sun who?" "Trashcan!"...
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June 18, 2008

Hate When That Happens: K2 Just Pooped Herself Awake

must be the banana. and yes, I'm just practicing my twitter....
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June 15, 2008

Have You Seen Me? Or Maybe Several Of Me?

Just as we planned, the kid adopted one of my mother's flannel blankets with a hand-crocheted edge for her snuggly comforting thing. I say planned, because we kind of pushed it, because they were always right at hand, and...
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May 7, 2008

Holy Crap, Our Book Is #652 On Amazon, And We're Having A Signing Tonight

I was up too late watching the primary returns, so I couldn't go stand outside the Today Show this morning while Heather talks about our book, Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy). But I think I'll be...
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April 30, 2008

Holy Crap, Our Book Is #42 On Amazon

And by "our," of course, I mean "Dooce." Way back, Heather Armstrong invited me [1] to write an essay for her anthology on fathers and fatherhood, Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy). The book was just released yesterday,...
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April 11, 2008

We Just Realized We Left Something Else In Los Angeles:

The last hour-and-a-half of K2's daytime naps. Seriously, since the little kid came home, she has not been sleeping more than 30-40 minutes at a time. Before LA, she'd do an easy 1.5-2hr morning nap, then a 2+ hour afternoon...
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April 9, 2008

There's Daddy Typing

there's daddy typing Originally uploaded by daddytypes Our new oilcloth tablecloth, picked up from Coco's Variety, as shot by our new auteur, with our new Flip....
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March 1, 2008

DT Advertisers Love Your Kid's Mohawk

Thanks to the Daddy Types advertisers who support the kids' educations without complaining once about their haircuts. If you have a product or a service, an event or an organization that new dads and their posse should know about, consider...
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February 13, 2008

"One Pink And One Purple!"

The kid stayed home from preschool today with a fever [Sorry, playdate buddy! We didn't take her temperature until you were here!]. Now she woke up from a nap with a higher fever, and as I went to get her...
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February 8, 2008

Pictures Of The New Kid, Approximately

Except that she may end up looking like Jon Lovitz in a couple of weeks, the new kid's doing great. Here is a photo approximation of her growth and development the last couple of weeks....
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February 4, 2008

Nice Work, Other Kid

slept 12:30 - 6:30, then back to sleep by 7:10. I feel nervous even mentioning it, though, as if bragging will come back to bite me in the ass. Better to just talk about her first trip to Ikea. Turns...
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January 27, 2008

"I Don't Want To Hear That Baby Crying Anymore!"

she said as she locked herself in the bathroom. We feel the same way, kid....
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January 18, 2008

The New Kid's Getting Cuter And Cuter Every Day

But she still has a few Clay Aiken moments....
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January 8, 2008

In The Interest Of Truth In Advertising, I'm Thinking Of Renaming This Blog

Though I can't decide between Even More Diapers and I Hate Snaps, Too! First things first, holy crap, I know they can fill up later, but it just seems ridiculous to me to throw out an entire diaper every 45...
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January 7, 2008

Home And Mostly Settled

We're all home and chill now. I had rambling philosophical post almost done about the differences between the first and the second time you have a kid, what you know, what you know you don't know, etc. Then I was...
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January 3, 2008

Sweet, Sweet, Unbuyable Plexi Hospital Bassinet Returns To Taunt Me Once Again

They say it's different the second time, but delivering a kid any time is still a mindblowing experience. And the slight covetous twinge that comes when you set the kid down in the insane stainless and plexi bassinet you...
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Hmm, Just Gonna Drive The Wife To Her Unusually Conveniently Timed Dr's Appt.

BRB? No idea. well, some idea....
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December 31, 2007

I'm One Cadillac Station Wagon Closer To Desperately Wanting One

You know, when it was the Jackson 5ive's 1971 Cadillac station wagon that I didn't buy, I was fine. But now that it's this suh-weet 1979 or so Fleetwood Brougham wagon which the Jalopnik guys spotted at Thunderhill, some...
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December 14, 2007

DT Advertisers Will Let You Gatecheck Any Size Stroller You Want

A shoutout in this holiday season to the fine advertisers over >> >> here, on the right, and their no-weight-limit approach to checked baggage: The Cradle, a new resource and online community for expectant parents. [yes, by definition, they rock.]...
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December 11, 2007

DT Checklist: What Do You Mean, "Contractions??"

So over the weekend, my wife has these phantom contractions or practice contractions or whatever it is that suddenly turns her belly into a cannonball, and they're so persistent, she comes home and says, "I think we should get the...
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November 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving

The kid just explained that the Pilgrims' and Indians' first Thanksgiving dinner was "as long ago as the end of a tape measure." I hope everyone and his family has a happy holiday; DT will back later this evening, after...
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November 8, 2007

We're Moving Today And Tomorrow

Actually, we've been in a slo-mo move and renovation and painting job the last few days, it's just picking up pace. Posting might be a little light. I'm tempted to ask for advice about switching to cloth diapers with the...
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November 4, 2007

Daddy Types Advertisers Are All Fresh Vintage

Thanks to the advertisers this week at Daddy Types, who entertain, inform, and entice, while keeping it fresh: Lux programmable thermostats such as the EnergyStar-certified CAG1500 CleanCycle: hot, but not too hot. And energy efficient to boot. Service Employees International...
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October 29, 2007

Waiting For The Great Pumpkin

Daddy Types will be typed later today, after we get back from the kid's first field trip. Pumpkin farm....
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October 26, 2007

We Have A Winner...

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October 21, 2007

Daddy Types' Advertisers Are GRASE

Fact: GRASE is an official category of medications at the FDA. It stands for Generally Recognized As Safe and Effective. Which is such a coincidence, because Daddy Types' advertisers are, too! At least now that the multi-level laptop marketing scheme...
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October 15, 2007

travel day, more later

Sorry for the light posting today; I'm traveling to Miami for Iconosphere 2008, a conference organized by Iconoculture for its clients and partners and other marketing genius types. Stay tuned. Iconosphere2008 [iconoculture.com]...
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September 29, 2007

Slightly Puffy-Looking Dad Cops To Buying Age-Inappropriate Toys For 3-yo

Andrew Adam Newman reports on the front page of the NY Times Business section today that some parents are so distracted by the threat of lead-contaminated toys, they forget the old-fashioned dangers--like toys with many small pieces that can...
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August 23, 2007

After BPA Blurb, Publicists Reach Out To "Headline Parenting" "Expert"

So while I didn't get on CBS yesterday, I did get a quote in the Washington Post's article about the latest developments in the whole Bisphenol A toxic plastic baby bottle controversy. [I guess that means I'm not TV-hot, only...
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August 16, 2007

What's In Your Circumcision Library?

So we're waiting at the OB's office for the 20-week ultrasound visit yesterday, when I spy this Newsweek blurbicle with Brooklyn novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, whose "My Five Most Important Book" list was topped with, "The Holy Bible: Genesis."...
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August 6, 2007

Stitches Out On Time

So a quick stitches update: the kid has been doing fine. She was a bit clingy and wiggy for the first couple of days, but she was the best patient I've ever had. We developed a little ritual for changing...
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August 5, 2007

Daddy Types Would Like To Thank More Advertisers

A big shoutout to the advertisers who provide us with such useful information about their valuable products and important events and initiatives: Sparkability, purveyor of better things for babies and kids Hyperion Books for Children, publisher of David Horvath's Bossy...
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July 30, 2007

My First Braining

Frankly, I always thought it would be the bookshelves. There's a 9-foot niche in one of our living room walls, a perfect spot for some low, sleek, floating shelves to hold artbooks with a display shelf on top. So...
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July 18, 2007

Damn Earthquake Cuts Daddy Types Japanese TV Fame Short, Still At 15 Seconds

If only there hadn't been an earthquake and hundreds of injuries and several deaths and a fire in a nuclear power plant and a release of some sort of radiation cloud, my 15-second, on-the-phone interview about discovering the wooden...
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July 9, 2007

Looks Like It's Going To Be That Kind Of Day

I just put Diet Coke in the kid's sippy cup....
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June 30, 2007

Daddy Types Advertisers Make It Easy To Be A Baby

Thanks to the Daddy Types advertisers who ply us with sweet products, services, and messages that never go out of style. If you'd like to advertise to Daddy Types' community of discerning, non-exploitative dads and their posses, check here. Thanks...
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June 28, 2007

Daddy Types Not Too Fat For PC World Magazine

Thanks to the folks who've emailed, and thanks to the demonstrably virile editors of PC World. Seems Daddy Types has some fans in ol' cubefarm; it was the only parenting- or kid-related title on their list of "100 Blogs...
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June 18, 2007

That Silence You Hear Is The Non-Spinning Of My Hard Drive

Grrr, I'm on the computer at the gym at the moment, and will be for another day or so until my hard drive gets replaced. It stopped suddenly, with a series of clicks, yesterday afternoon. BRB....
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June 12, 2007

Can't Blog Now; Playdate

All type and no play makes daddy a loser. I'll be back this afternoon...
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June 7, 2007

Parents.com Servers Not [Yet] Overwhelmed With Demand For Podcast Interview With Daddy Types Blogger

Investigators are still, uh, investigating the cause of last night's server crash that knocked Daddy Types, the weblog for new dads, offline for nearly 13 hours. Initial speculation focused on whether publisher Greg Allen overloaded the server with his extraordinary...
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May 25, 2007

Daddy's Not Typing For A Few Days

Daddy Types, Daddy Packs, Daddy Eats Popsicle At Kid's Pre-school Class Party, Daddy Drives To North Carolina. We're heading out for the weekend, and early reports from the Outer Banks reveal that none of the neighbors have their WiFi set...
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May 20, 2007

Daddy Types: Please Feed The Advertisers

The sun is out. At the zoo, the sloth bears pace back and forth entertainingly; the otters frolic before the glass. And in the sidebar to the right, Daddy Types advertisers ply us with their adorable tricks and stand ready...
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April 27, 2007

Itsy Bitsy Spider Of The D'Urbervilles

The kid this morning, as we watched the rain come out of the spout [punctuation, paragraphing, and breaths in between added]:Daddy, when it rains, water falls down from the clouds, and it his the roof. The water comes down onto...
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April 22, 2007

Thanks To Daddy Types Advertisers--And Birthday Giftgivers

Sorry the posting's been a little slow over the weekend; you know how it is when you get a giant HDTV flatscreen for your birthday, and suddenly, you have to clear your calendar to get that bad boy installed,...
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March 23, 2007

Daddy Types Advertisers Think Your Manboobs Look Fine

A hearty shoutout to the advertisers over >>> there >>> who help us with the kids--and keep our manracks firm, if not perky. If you want to get the attention of new dads quicker'n a cold breeze across a t-shirt,...
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March 13, 2007

Who Buys Diapers From A Blog? Pampers Edition

The $25/99 Pampers promotion at Amazon last month, coming as it did on the heels of a similar Huggies promotion in January, provides a chance to see a breakdown of who you are reads this site buys diapers on...
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March 2, 2007

One-Time Daddy Types Advertisers In The News

I first learned about the existence of Glenn Beck when Turner Broadcasting bought an adspot on Daddy Types, then ran a promo for Beck's hard, deep probe of online porn addiction on CNN. From the amazing awkward silence in this...
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February 27, 2007

The Kid: The Anime Version

Early on, we made a decision not to publish the kid's name or photo on Daddy Types. Then as she started pre-pre-school, I kind of pulled a curtain around her and her classmates, too. But as soon as Sylvia emailed...
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February 17, 2007

Daddy Types Advertisers Would Totally Knit Breasts For You

Thanks to the advertisers who provide the information, products and services that new dads--and those who love them--might find useful [1]: Javis Davis custom crib bedding, who has a new website Hello Kitty Stump Village, a claymation DVD no claymation...
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February 2, 2007

DT Group Huggie: Who Buys Diapers From A Blog?

Sometimes I mourn for the wild and carefree pre-kid life, back in the day where we'd make farcical spreadsheets and PowerPoint for fun. The consulting world equivalent of writing a game theory analysis of leaving the toilet seat up....
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January 26, 2007

Daddy Types Thanks Advertisers, Ad-viewing Cynics For Their Support

A brisk shoutout to the advertisers who provide information on products, services, programs, and information that is of use or interest to dads, new dads, dads-to-be, and their entourage: Javis Davis, who are purveying their custom crib bedding from a...
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January 16, 2007

"That's My Friend!"

You want your kid to have friends, but then what if you don't like their friends? "Elmo and the Gecko Frog are my friends!" [via the kid just outside Baltimore on the way to NYC last week, image via usatoday]...
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January 10, 2007

Daddy Types Wishes To Thank The Adver--WHOA, A SALE!

I was going to thank Vincent, the super-cool kids' shoe company from Sweden for their super cool kids' shoe ad, but then I saw they switched it. There's a sale going on, up to 50% off. Hop on over. Those...
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January 1, 2007

2007 On Daddy Types: What Are You Expecting?

Yeah, I know most of the posts today were either grumpy and/or depressing. How's that working for you? As regular readers of Daddy Types well know, most, if not all, of the best content, news, tips, and advice around here...
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December 29, 2006

All I Got For Christmas

Tis the season for coming clean. Daddy Types policy is to decline freebies and pay-for-play swaps of product and coverage. With the exception of all the cars mentioned on this site, no one can buy their way into Daddy Types'...
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December 12, 2006

Back, Back-up, Backed Up, The Shirts Off My Back

As you may have guessed, we got back from Japan and Hong Kong late last night. A couple of things from the checklist: First, thanks and welcome to Andy, modernist design shark and daddytype, who began a guestblogging stint here...
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December 4, 2006

Another Daddy types

Hello, my name is DT reader Andy and I'm going to be writing here for a few weeks while Greg is in Japan. I'm a new Dad, my daughter Elsa is 14 months old and I've been reading daddytypes for...
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November 24, 2006

Thanks To Daddy Types' Advertisers Who Stuff The Turkeys Of Our Lives With Goodness

Looking to ladle the gravy of gratitude from Daddy Types' discerning readership onto the brine-soaked goodness of your company, product, event, or belief system? Advertise on Daddy Types today [well, not today today, because all the slots are full, but...
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November 23, 2006

Thanks

We're taking the day off here at DTHQ, but I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helps make this site such a rewarding, fulfilling, and exciting experience: - to you folks who contribute such great ideas, advice, and...
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November 10, 2006

Daddy Types Advertisers Give You The Shirts Off Their Backs

Thanks to the advertisers who, well, they fill our websurfing vision with interesting and useful and informative offers for new dads and their kin, that's what they do: Vincent, cool shoes for kids from Sweden, now, finally, available in the...
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November 6, 2006

Comments Also Open For People NOT Selling Drugs Online

Daddy Types has been basking in praise ["Great site! Check out my ringtones!"] all weekend, thanks. And there have even been people other than Bitchlady talking about things other than online casinos, too. So if you don't see a comment...
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Daddy Types Advertisers Are Iridescent Nuggets For Entertaining Your Kid

Thanks to Daddy Types' real live advertisers who swim before our very eyes last week, offering us a true departure from the conventional and the make-believe: The 92nd Street Y Wonderplay program, a universe of classes and programs for families...
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October 23, 2006

Bless You, Pete Doherty. Bless You, Kate Moss.

The last few weeks as we've been ironing out the details and the concept, I've had a single, anxious doubt running through my brain: "But what if no one really disastrously famous has a baby next spring? Who'd care about...
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October 22, 2006

Swedish Or Not, DT Advertisers Are Tall, Beautiful, And Have Something For You

If you'll put the revealing investigative report on America's obsession with porn on mute for a second, I'd like to make a quick shoutout to Daddy Types' advertisers, two three [dude!] of which are from Sweden, and none of which...
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October 16, 2006

Daddy Types Thanks Its Advertisers, Only One Of Which Is Into Porn

A big shoutout to the advertisers here [or >> there >>, depending on how you read this] on Daddy Types, who provide amazing, essential products and information for new parents--and the occasional "expose'" on porn. Go figure: EliteCarSeats.com, which...
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October 6, 2006

Like Important Peoples' Desks, Daddy Types Advertisers Are Mahogany

A big thanks to the most helpful and important companies in the entire universe--what, too much? fine. In the entire galaxy--the advertisers right >> over >> there >>: EliteCarSeats.com, who has the Orbit Baby Car Seat available NOW. [Orbit, galaxy,...
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October 2, 2006

Fame Canada: Internationally** Reknowned* Pregnant-Chicks-In-Ads Expert*** To Appear On Radio

* And by reknowned, we mean, "will be famous, after he's interviewed on CHQR AM770 in Calgary." ** And by internationally, we mean "Calgary, which is in Canada." *** And by expert, we mean, of course, "blogger." I'd tell you...
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September 24, 2006

Brio's New Target Market [Hint: Starts With Gr-, Ends With -ups]

Indulge me a bit of MBA geekdom, but ever since that high chair turned up, I was kind of intrigued why Brio, which has been known for over 100 years primarily as a wooden toy company--and especially as a...
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September 15, 2006

Advertisers Are The Nomi To Daddy Types' Zack

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but the love that Daddy Types' advertisers feel for you, the shopping, parenting readers? That stuff ships all over. Here's a big shoutout to: EliteCarSeats.com, whose legendary once-a-year Britax sale starts today,...
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September 8, 2006

What Happens In Vegas, Baby!!

I'm off to Las Vegas for the ABC Kids Expo. While I'm gone, play nice, please don't get too worked up about crocs [or Crocs], and buy a lot of sweet strollers, cool stuff and musik classes from our sweet,...
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September 3, 2006

[It's A Rental.] The Daddy Types White Van Of Baby Gear

Hey man, look what's in this Amazon-powered van. For those who feel guilty about the environmental impact of disposable diapers, relax: the money Amazon donates to me for all the stuff you buy out of this little white van is...
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September 1, 2006

Daddy Types Advertisers Let You Pump Without Clocking Out

A virtually hands-free shoutout to the advertisers here at Daddy Types, who pump tirelessly, even on the road, to keep us all supplied with healthy, capitalistic goodness. If you've got a product, service, or message you'd like to flash in...
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August 24, 2006

Hm. Why I Blog, Sort Of.

The other night, Metrodad, Laid-off Dad and I headed out for some drinks and burgers, our first face-to-face meeting, actually, and it was a lot of fun. It was also interesting to see how our own blogging activities fit differently...
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Out Of, Into, The Mouths Of Babes

The kid getting dressed this morning, to my wife: "When I'm a mommy, I will get a bigger chest."...
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August 18, 2006

Daddy Types Advertisers Invite You To Their Exclusive Hamptons Beach House

A warm shoutout to the advertisers consider us all as celebrity parents, at least in the sense of wanting to see us photographed using their products. If you would like to reach Us People In Style, consider advertising on Daddy...
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August 9, 2006

Nothing Against Emo Lesbian MySpace Designers, Mind You

If you made a tremendously important point today and you don't see it on the site, don't worry: I didn't censor you at the whiny behest of a thin-skinned childcare expert. I'm still getting the settings worked out on the...
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August 2, 2006

Some RSS Feeds Are Getting A Timeout

thanks to everyone who's sent feedback about any problems or gaps they're finding with the site. I'm still trying to get to the root of the comments and search error messages, but one thing I'm finding: if you submit a...
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July 31, 2006

How Special Is "A Very Special Advertisement," You Ask?

You may have noticed the ads now running amidst the posts on the newly moved daddytypes.com, the ones that say, "A Very Special Advertisement." First off, yes, the title is a reference to the "a very special episode of Family...
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Advertisers Make Server Upgrades Easy And Seamless

I wish we had more of them! Actually, I prefer having a very limited number of highly relevant, interesting and value-added advertisers to enhance the experience and improve the lives of Daddy Types' new parent readership. If you are such...
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July 28, 2006

Guestblogger? I See You've Already Met

I've been a fan of John Biggs' since even before I found out he was a fellow daddy type, thanks to the sweet gear-and-gadget insights he dealt out at gizmodo. So when I heard he'd broken free of the Gawker...
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July 21, 2006

Hellooo, Glorious Advertisers: The Micralite Ed.

I tells ya, you learn the darnedest things from the advertisements on Daddy Types. Like that Sparkability is taking pre-orders online for "late August" delivery of the Micralite stroller for $449. And the newborn system with the carry cot attachment--"Excuse...
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July 14, 2006

Little Advertiser Shoutout

A big thanks to the advertisers who provide a steady flow of relevant, useful, and entertaining products for daddytypes readers everywhere. If you've got something new dads and dads-to-be should know about, why not go with the flow and advertise...
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July 12, 2006

Block Party

All this time, I thought these were wooden beads for stringing on the long cord [included]. But the kid corrected me this morning. They're actually drinks. And coasters. Apparently, there is a large party afoot. Not shown: a Persian...
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The Kid

If I pretend I'm just posting this picture for the gear, it's ok, right? Because I'd hate to be accused of baby-parading or something......
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July 10, 2006

Take Your Daughter To Work And To File A Police Report Day

Sorry for the total lack of posts today. My wife got to the train station where she'd left the car for the weekend and found it had been broken into by an amateur who couldn't figure out how to hotwire...
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July 9, 2006

ugh: anyone know their way around mySQL?

You: a mySQL geek sitting at home. it's cold and rainy. You've sprained your ankle and can't play ball. The family's off at the mall. Your cable's out. You hit refresh, but none of the blogs you read has updated...
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July 3, 2006

Their Low Mercury Content Makes Daddy Types Advertisers Safe For Your Consumption

A shoutout to this week's Daddy Types advertisers, who are working to keep mercury out of our fish, Raffi out of our heads, and tacky schlock out of our kid's rooms: Oceana's Green List works with consumers and grocery stores...
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June 24, 2006

Daddy Types Advertisers Make Every Day Feel Like Father's Day

A quick shoutout to the discerning advertisers who tantalize us dads and dads-to-be with their innovative and relevant products and services. If you have something enticing for new dads, think about advertising on Daddy Types, too. And if you want...
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June 18, 2006

Happy Dadblog's Day!

Did you know that in Iceland, Father's Day is called "the day after Independence Day?" and it's usually celebrated by nursing a hangover and waiting for the tinnitus from last night's Icelandic death-metal concert to wear off? Meanwhile, in the...
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June 15, 2006

Daddy Types About Advertisers A Bit Early This Week So You Can Win $25K

Remember back in the day when you had to pay all that money to get access to Daddy Types content? Yeah, that didn't last. You three should watch out for a replacement subscription to La Leche Ledger to show up...
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June 11, 2006

Namibia Is For Lovers. And Advertisers.

A big shoutout to the full-lipped advertisers who had the product placements of a lifetime this week here on daddytypes.com. If your company is gut-bustingly pregnant with useful and valuable information or products for new dads, dads to be, and...
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June 5, 2006

Now I Feel Kind Of Dirty

Braddy Types: Parenting wisdom from the films of Brad Pitt [braddytypes.com] [jumped? or were they pushed? I just saw this on cbb : " I even heard that organizers in the gifting suite industry consider celebrity babies to have...
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June 2, 2006

Thanks To The Daddy Types Advertisers Who Don't Hide In Their Gated Mansions

But instead, mingle among us, their endearing target audience, and invite us to commune with them right. over. there. in that sidebar. If you're craving a bit of starworship or box office attention from daddytypes' readers, click here, or have...
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May 25, 2006

Daddy Types Invites You To Stalk Its Advertisers Right To Their Websites

An Academy Awards ceremonyful of thanks to the advertisers here on Daddy Types. They inspire me with their products and their money to continue honing my craft. If you're the Stella Adler of advertisers, Daddy Types wants to your Brando...
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May 12, 2006

Thanks To The Advertisers Who Get Our Kids Into Harvard

A big shoutout to the advertisers this week on Daddy Types, who all--now this was the buzz on the floor of the JPMA convention--who all guarantee early decision acceptance for your child at the Ivy League university of his choice...
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May 9, 2006

I Went To JPMA, And All I Got...

...well, I got a bit more than this, but this standard-issue tote bag [which turned out to be handy for filling with swag and press kits] was also a promotion for some of the baby mags that so assiduously...
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May 3, 2006

Will You Be At JPMA? Email Me.

I'm going to take a quick trip to the JPMA (Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association) convention this weekend/next week, strictly business, you understand. [As a one-time Disney suit, this will actually be my first trip to Orlando since escaping The Mouse's...
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May 2, 2006

Advertisers So Cute, You Just Want To Eat Them Up

So far, I'm liking the idea of featuring only a couple of advertisers at a time on Daddy Types, especially when they're SO CUTE. Let me pinch the rosy cheeks of the site's advertisers this week: Javis Davis, whose exclusive...
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April 24, 2006

Daddy Types Thanks Addy Types

This is the blog that new dads built. And this is the content that goes in the blog that new dads built. And these are the advertisers who support the content that goes in the blog that new dads built:...
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Satellite Sister: "That's A TERRIBLE Story!"

Jason's link to this collection of terrible news segues at McSweeney's reminded me of being on The Satellite Sisters, where my interview about men's room changing tables was preceded by a discussion of a rash of racially motivated murders in...
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April 11, 2006

When Do Kids Get A Personality?

You know how, when you look at a friend's baby pictures and with some of them, you're like, "Is that you??" But in a few, the person you know--not just the looks or the nose or the cheeks, but the...
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April 2, 2006

Daddy Types Had Twins! [Twin Advertisers, That Is]

The way I feel about advertisers is the way I used to feel about kids: Sure, I wouldn't mind having some myself, as long as they were good-looking, smart, well-behaved, and could fit in the back seat of a Porsche...
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March 29, 2006

Whoa. Hallucinating Breasts While Driving

On the NJ Turnpike this afternoon, I swear I passed a woman who was nursing a baby while driving a minivan, but when I slowed back down to get confirmation, her car was nowhere to be seen. I need...
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March 22, 2006

Hellooo, New Yorker Magazine

Wansoo Im, an adjunct professor of urban planning at Rutgers University, came to town the other day with a bold agenda. His plan was to cure one of Manhattan��s oldest civic ills��the difficulty of finding a public rest room��by applying...
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March 13, 2006

With Rocking Chairs All In A Row

It's nice to have some order in your life, and we have to give the kid props, because she's been mostly sleeping through the night since she was like 6 weeks old, but still. She's been showing some signs of...
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March 2, 2006

News From The Front In The War On Drugs

I had jury duty today, got called into voir dire for a coke case (possession with intent to distribute). I was #59 of 60 in the jury pool, and I had my whole Traffic speech ready, and yeah, ask me...
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February 22, 2006

Daddy's Nuts!

The last few months, the kid's gotten into possessives and attributions. It's not just her "jacket," but her "Gramma's jacket, she bought it in France." "Susan's fleece," etc. There's "Mommy's bed" and "Mommy's chair," but for reasons we can't figure...
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February 16, 2006

I May Be On The Radio, Or I May Be Totally Busted

Because it's the Satellite Sisters, who are like The View, only related and on the radio, I'm half expecting to get on the phone this afternoon and find I've been punk'd by the guys from Dadcentric for being a big...
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Crib Critics

A reading from the 2006 Community Playthings catalogue, in which Cameron's words of praise for the Community Crib warm the hearts of CP marketers and value-minded crib buyers alike: "'This crib is so beyond cool as to be icy.'...
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February 13, 2006

BlowDaddy.com, or Missing Daddytypes.com's Second Birthday

So I get at least two emails a week from godaddy.com notifying me that some domain or another I own is set to renew automatically in 90 days, 60 days.... 5 days, etc. But for some reason, not only did...
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February 5, 2006

Bolivian Baby Powder

Whew. If it weren't for Jay McInerney's mopey mug, I'd have been the saddest-lookin' dog in the Style section this weekend. Changin' In The Boys Room [nyt]...
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January 8, 2006

DT Category Feeds Born 01/08

I've been tweaking on the site a bit, and I'm testing out category-level feeds to see what the response is. Click on the little icons next to each category you'd like to subscribe to, and new posts will go directly...
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December 15, 2005

If You Can't Read This, Let Me Know

I noticed a big spike in "404 - File Not Found" errors recently in server logs, and I can't figure out what's causing it [besides the obvious that whatever link someone's clicking through doesn't work...] If you have been getting...
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December 2, 2005

How (Not) To Spend Your Anniversary The Daddy Types Way

1. your wife goes on a sudden daytrip for work to Cambridge 2. you go on a sudden daytrip for work to Miami 3. the kid goes on a daytrip--to Grandma's office (at least it's a Friday) 4. You all...
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November 21, 2005

The Kid Can't Go To The Playground Because It's Raining

Or as she just put it, "The weather's sick."...
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November 16, 2005

The Kid's Joke: Funny Because True

So the kid tells this joke: Daddy: You're a little girl, and mommy is a big girl, and daddy is a big boy. The Kid: Mommy big girl. Daddy: That's right! The Kid: The Kid little girl. [yeahright, as if...
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October 24, 2005

Daddy Type T-shirt-spotting, Or Putting the Papa in Paparazzi

Celebrity (new) dad Peldi of Patata Monkey shows he knows how to represent. And how to get a totally gratuitous link from me. With this totally unstaged street photograph of him pushing a Bugaboo and wearing an official 'daddy type'...
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The Kid Knows What Really Counts

So yesterday, as we were in the kitchen making dinner, the kid goes over to my stash of 2-liter Diet Coke bottles on the bottom shelf of a worktable and proceeds to count them off, "1-2-3-4-5-6-7," as my wife and...
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October 17, 2005

URGENT: Do You Have A WhyCry Crying Analyzer?

Email me ASAP. A legend, a giant, a mighty mogul of the talk/information television industry* needs a WhyCry for a show ASAP, and the factory in Spain or wherever has dropped the ball. If you can bear to part with...
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October 12, 2005

Flying Solo: This Non-Post Will Be Replaced With Real Content Later.

Sorry, been kinda hectic, and with the wife in Japan for the week, I've been kinda swamped; I'll get a flurry of posts up tonight, I expect. In the mean time, do you have any strong opinions about: cloth vs...
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October 10, 2005

The Daddy Types Baby Tattoo Design Contest

A company's selling "If lost, please call " temporary tattoos for kids, but they still require you to write your phone number on there with a marker. Set aside the lost&found strategy questions of tattoing vs. labeling vs. stuffing a...
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October 9, 2005

"Have You People Ever Heard Of Coasters??"

The kid's been playing with coasters since she was able to pull herself up on the coffee table. But in the last couple of weeks, she's been using them obsessively. Must have been that combination of learning the word [which...
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October 2, 2005

The DT Bestseller List 05Q3

Except for a couple dozen of you, most Daddy Types readers buy their Bugaboos elsewhere. But according to Amazon's quarterly report, a fair number of you did buy books, basics, and gear from here last quarter. You see, when you...
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October 1, 2005

And Here We Thought She Was Learning French

ure, on the 5th to 10th consecutive readings of Miss Spider's Birthday we have resorted to just saying the letters and letting the kid fill in the rest [I hope she remembers to use "ogle" and "mingle" during the pre-school...
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September 12, 2005

The Weblog For Nude Dance

That's what they heard, anyway. I got introduced to a group of people at a friend's party tonight, and they were like, "you have a blog about what??" About ten minutes of largely non-blog-related conversation later, one of the people...
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August 18, 2005

Hey You, In The Old T-Shirt. Help Is On The Way

Oy. We're back home, after a 20-hr door-to-door trip from Japan (the kid slept for about 9 or so of the most crucial of those hours: the ones on the plane. Thanks, kid, for being so good and generally quiet....
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August 7, 2005

Get Behind Me, Danny Moder

My server had a hard drive failure, and big portions of the site, including all the comments, was down for several hours. You don't skip church when your server's down, so when I got back, I found the hosting company...
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June 19, 2005

Happy Father's Day

to all you dads, new dads, and dads-to-be out there. and a special shout to the military dads who are far from their families, and to the baby daddies who're fighting with their baby mommas, and to the dads in...
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June 13, 2005

Traveling with spotty web access. Talk Amongst Yourselves

Just one thing I did notice while we've been traveling on a family vacation: how your kids behave on a plane is almost secondary to how you behave on a plane w/r/t your kids. If you act like a petulant,...
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June 8, 2005

What Not To Get Him For Father's Day: A Daddy Type T-shirt

Yow, I don't know if it's all the nerds from Gizmodo or what, but all the daddy type t-shirts blew out of here in the last three days. I reordered, but it's not guaranteed that they'll arrive before Father's Day,...
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May 28, 2005

Captain Steubing, Was That You?

Seriously, was Daddy Types on the radio or something? Because while it's back to it's "goats asleep in the middle of the street" quiet today, yesterday's traffic surge was like the Love Boat pulling in and disgorging its well-fed, shopaholic...
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April 22, 2005

Daddy Type T-shirts v2.0 Are Here, Rock

[6/20 UPDATE: Buy as many as you want; daddy type t-shirts are in stock in sizes L, XL, and XXL ONLY. And remember, the run small.] Sorry, the rest are sold out and ain't comin' back. OK, the new daddy...
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April 12, 2005

Hey Buddy, I Wanna Talk To You

Yeah, you. The one pushing your daughter home through Central Park (East side, 64th St, on the drive that goes over Balto's head) in a blue or black BOB-looking jogging stroller at around 6PM. The one in the suit. And...
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March 13, 2005

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Until recently, the kid's been pretty uninterested in mimicking us. She'd do a sound now and then, but she's been more an independent observer who'll do her own thing for her own reason, not just because we're doing it. Then...
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March 9, 2005

Basking in Defective Yeti's Reflected Fame

Matthew Baldwin writes regularly about his kid, The Squirrelly on DefectiveYeti.com. Last night, like Oprah training highbeam spotlight on books she likes, Baldwin used his mega-blogger-stardom on the radio to talk about parenting blogs, including this one. [And if the...
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February 28, 2005

Daddy Types: Veeling is Heet

Caution! filling is hot: I'm going to keep posting about stuff we found in Holland until I numb the pain of finding the entire country stripped of its old-school, bubbly-crusted McDonald's apple pies. Fortunately, it's a small country, so we're...
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February 23, 2005

The Birthday Kid

It's the kid's first birthday. Although there's a party in the works for Spring, when the weather's a little nicer, we've had two pre-party dinners which just happened to include cake with candles. Last night was my white trash...
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February 10, 2005

Serious Baby Mama Drama & Other Discoveries From The Daddy Types Search Log

Here are a few notable search queries that brought people to Daddy Types this week: is bugaboo frog cheaper in the netherlands? [have you seen the euro these days, pal?] geek dad buying stroller [I'm sure I have no idea...
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"She's just a girl who/ claims that I am the one"

A very polite gentleman just made me this exclusive offer in the comments section of an un-related post. [Note to corporate and publicist types: the email works better. -dt] It sounds so sweet, I thought I'd check with the...
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December 7, 2004

Cleaning up around the webhouse

1) the category archives are extremely popular 2) they're pretty freakin' big, what with the pictures and all. 3) I can't figure out how to be able to page through old posts 10 or so at a time. Result: I...
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December 1, 2004

Who the hell are you people? Er, I mean, Welcome!

Site traffic's jumped about 40% in the last couple of days, and I can't for the life of me figure out where you new folks are coming from. Did everyone hear about Daddy Types from your cousin-the-new-dad over Thanksgiving, or...
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November 13, 2004

Funny How A Kid Impacts Your Productivity

My email backlog extends a couple of months in places, so apologies if you have sent me something, and I haven't gotten back to you yet. I will, unless you're a m0rt ga ge broker (or an obvious nutjob)....
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October 23, 2004

Lie Back and Thank England

"Agreeably tetchy." We are honoured [sp] to report the Guardian 'as bestowed upon Daddy Types the title, Site Of The Day That Hellion, Prince Harry, Throttled A Photographer. Harry's minders to blame, says former royal snapper [Guardian]...
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October 21, 2004

I Like You, 2

I just finished my first issue of 2, The Magazine for Couples (in Canada), and I have to say, I liked it even before I got to the page where they gave Daddy Types a nice plug. Funny and informative....
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October 19, 2004

Raised Type

Forget baseball players or hiphop stars; if you really want your kids to hook you up when you're old, raise them to be typeface designers. At least that's the message I'm getting from the remarkably similar childhoods of Jonathan Hoefler...
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October 18, 2004

What Magazines Do You Like And Why?

A couple of magazine people have asked me recently about reworking some Daddy Types content for use in print (which I guess counts as progress; normally, magazines just have their people rip off your story). Anyway, It's made me think...
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September 19, 2004

What do you WANT?

Whew. That wasn't so hard. Thanks to some fine advice and suggestions from dads, dads-to-be, and other dad-related people, I am a perfect father with a perfect child. Now I'm ready to get to work on you. What are the...
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August 30, 2004

Starting a 'Parent Company'

Patemm, Elizabeth Mitchell, and a post I'm working on right now... It's been staring me in the face for months: a lot of parents are so dissatisfied with the pregnancy/baby/kid industry, they feel compelled to do something about it. You...
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August 19, 2004

Daddy Type t-shirts are back

3 April Update: Shirts are temporarily out of stock. Please check back in a week or two before ordering. Thanks. I ordered up a second batch of 'daddy type' T-shirts. They're the same as before: with 'daddy type' screened...
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August 14, 2004

Jetlag Special: 5AM Thank-yous

Back from Japan, safe, sound, (almost) all accounted for, and jetlagged. More on that later. Thanks to the folks below, company's coming, and I've gotta start picking up all the stuff lying around the Daddy Types floor. First, DT fan...
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July 31, 2004

Daddy Types Japanese Tour '04

Well, I'm actually doing it: taking the kid on a 14-hour flight to Japan, and a 2-week trip to the sticks. Daddy Types is certainly going to sleep through the night, but if they have the "internet" over there, I'll...
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July 27, 2004

"Pimp Your Stroller"? Gladly, Brother Tavis

A serious and belated--what's the vernacular?--shout-out to my Brother Omar and my Brother Tavis, who did an interesting segment on baby tech and gadgets that included a nice plug for Daddy Types. I am truly living large. The discussion was...
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June 14, 2004

Did I mention the Deseret News? cuz they mentioned daddtypes

Daddy Types was among the sites featured in a funny, nice article on dads and gear in the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City. To new visitors from Utah, I say: Welcome, welcome, Monday morning....
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June 9, 2004

Calacanis gives up on Denton, Comes After Me

After getting crushed by crushing Nick Denton and his Gawker-led blogging empire, the notoriously media-whoring SoHo House lush with a blog or two, like a floorful of Cheerios, Jason Calacanis has moved into my sandbox. Weblogs, Inc. just launched bloggingbaby.com....
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May 26, 2004

Thanks, TMN

ATL - TERMINAL A, CROWN ROOM -- Wouldn't you know it, The Morning News, aka The American Academy of Lit Hip Dads and Dads-to-be, gives Daddy Types a plug...on the same day I abandon my 3-month old daughter for a...
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April 25, 2004

Privacy and terms of use

It's actually July 25, 2004, but since this is the first time--because of the t-shirt thing--that I'm receiving people's personal information, I thought I'd better make a quick statement about how Daddy Types collects, uses or shares such data. I...
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February 27, 2004

The Bugaboo Epiphany, or "Where did Daddy Types come from?"

As we were getting ready for our kid to be born, I kept sensing something was wrong, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. It was there in the chatty tone of the pregnancy books . The weekly...
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February 22, 2004

Daddy Types' (non-) design

Settling on a name --with all its entendres, no matter how inadvertent--really helped inform the design concept. Types would refer to kinds--as in, "I want to be the type of dad who doesn't fall into stereotypical parenting traps."-- as well...
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Who's Behind Daddy Types?

For now, I am. My name's Greg Allen. As of February 2004, I'm a new dad to little girl who seems rather unimpressed with my tales of filmmaking, startups, IPO's, global travel and artworld partyhopping. Fortunately, I'm used to it;...
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February 14, 2004

granddaddy types

On his weblog, William Gibson, the granddaddy of--variously--cyberpunk and dystopian fiction, writes about typing, and the kinaesthetic elegance that was the IBM Selectric typewriter. I found it as I was researching the logo and design of this site....
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