1) If I were as cool as Greg at daddytypes, I would have set up a database of baby-friendly bathrooms for the Triangle area the same way he has NYC covered. And if I had such a list, I would note how I flipped down the baby changing table at the New Hope Commons Barnes & Noble and Playboy’s College Girls spilled out. That’s disgusting — who’s going to want to buy a magazine after it’s been on a changing table?
2) Why were we at the book store? Because we’re popular! Popular Science, that is. We’re mentioned in an article about setting up your own blog, and they like our telemetry and metrics. Thanks PS!
Interesting side note: this is the first issue of PS I have ever seen that doesn’t feature some kind of flying car on the cover.
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20 responses so far ↓
1 james kim // Apr 16, 2005 at 12:04 pm
yup, that is how i found this site. =)
and i must hand it to you, it is quite impressive and entertaining. haha.
2 Judy // Apr 16, 2005 at 1:48 pm
YAY! Congrats on the coverage! That is sooooo cool!
3 becky // Apr 16, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Just a quick comment about baby-friendly bathrooms, since you brought it up. I was appalled when I went into the bathroom at a Burger King in Austin, TX, one that has the huge kids play area mind you, and it had no changing table at all…and I had a poopy toddler.
I don’t get it.
4 hannah // Apr 16, 2005 at 11:22 pm
I agree - who wants poop on their smut? Gross. (You really cracked me up w/this one, benmac - and congrats on PS!)
5 dmarie // Apr 16, 2005 at 11:53 pm
Found your site from the PS article. Congratulations on the publication of your site! Now, I’ll just have a look-see.
Donna
Lafayette LA
6 schaff // Apr 17, 2005 at 1:47 pm
In the twentieth century, the most popular type of science was putting rocket packs onto things. In the twenty-first, it could be baby telemetry. Who knows? Watch this space for how you can build your own baby at home.
7 bj // Apr 17, 2005 at 7:57 pm
nope, didn’t find you from the magazine (a link from another . But, very very cute. I love the metrics. My husband has a baby book from kept by his dad, and it contains precisely the detailed stats that you have, except 1) 1965, so it’s in a lab notebook, not on the computer 2) no pictures. But, I can look up how many diaper change my husband had when he was 7 days old or how frequent his mom’s contractions were.
it’s always been a great disappointment to me that my lawyer husband couldn’t see keeping such a lab notebook for our kids. (of course, I’m the scientist, but haven’t quite managed it myself). But, I’m going to try to take a picture every day!
bj
8 benmac // Apr 17, 2005 at 8:16 pm
bj: A lab notebook from 1965? That’s awesome! Long-live paper! I’ll be pretty tickled if Trixie’s significant other has a copy of the Trixie Update in the year 2045.
9 J and J's Mom // Apr 18, 2005 at 7:13 pm
OK, I gotta comment here… I think there’s a bigger issue about finding porn in a public bathroom - hidden inside the baby changing station! This is not only disgusting, but quite disturbing - don’t you all agree?
10 Bethany // Apr 19, 2005 at 2:25 am
Sad to say, my husband has found Playboys in the men’s restroom–including in the baby changer, similar to benmac’s experience–at least three times that I know of, in a Phoenix-area Borders.
11 Kelli // Apr 19, 2005 at 8:27 am
Well, having worked in a Barnes & Noble (in Charlotte, NC), I can say that when we were cleaning the store after closing, we would find those mags “hidden” everywhere, leading to some stores placing them behind the cash registers. Personally, I’d rather find one in the bathroom than hidden in the children’s section, which was another popular location.
12 Jan // Apr 21, 2005 at 9:41 am
If you decide to do the TABA (Triangle area bathroom database) let me know. I’ve got a 3 month old and I’m in different ones in Raleigh quite regularly.
13 Abbycat // Apr 21, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Baby-friendly bathrooms–amen. Let’s take it to a new level. Don’t just note where they are–speak up when they aren’t
I’ve submitted “comments” on the Atlanta Bread Company and Starbucks websites, which yielded me canned responses about the vagaries of franchising… Next step is changing baby on a table next top the “order here” line.
C’mon–let’s make a stand for diaper changers in restaurant and store bathrooms. Playboy optional…
14 hannah // Apr 21, 2005 at 3:31 pm
Being the shameless the-world-revolves-around-my-perfect-baby breeder that I am, I must admit I almost always *chose* to change my girl on the counter/table/chair/couch, etc., b/c even sans playboy, those changing tables in the bathroom always just seemed dirty to me and I would rather offend everyone else w/my baby’s poopy diaper than have her princess ass get public bathroom cooties. Between that little move and my oh-so-public nursing, I give us all a bad name. I’m sorry. Sort of.
Hannah
15 Jan // Apr 21, 2005 at 4:10 pm
Hannah, that’s why I’m a huge fan of those disposable changing table mats.
16 Mister Underhill // Apr 26, 2005 at 3:11 am
I was wondering where I put that, by gum!
17 Andrew // May 11, 2005 at 2:13 am
Hey hey, I got your link off of PS too. You’re on my bookmark list now.
18 Jeff // May 12, 2005 at 10:34 am
OK… didn’t know where else to post this, but actually, given the subject of changing tables, this might be appropriate…
Found from Gizmodo is Duds4Dads, cool stuff for a Dad.
Enjoy!
~Jeff
19 Britta // May 25, 2005 at 11:04 pm
Hi! I also found you in PS, and I’ve been a avid fan since. I’m hooked!
-Britta, Alabama
20 Gail // May 30, 2005 at 11:59 pm
I bet those blasted teenagers didn’t think anyone would find the smut! Drats!
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