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Bento Boxes are nothing more than Japanese lunch boxes.  Bento itself is the art of making the meals.  The difference between Japanese (and Korean and Taiwanese for that matter) boxed lunches and ours is that we don’t take our food quite as seriously as they do.  Thus our meals and boxes are a little on the primitive side.  I went through lunch box phases when I was a kid.  I had[…]

     

         

In light of the several recent large earthquakes around the world (the Okinawa quake was 13 miles into the crust so it didn’t do much) I’ve started thinking about what I would do if a disaster struck close to home.  But, living in Boulder, the only natural disaster I could think of was the super-volcano that is Yellowstone, and that isn’t enough to[…]

 

 

 

Welcome to the Jungle came on the radio yesterday.  I was drumming along with it on my steering wheel when I came to the sudden realization that I was listening to the classic rock station.  Not an 80’s rock station — classic rock as in The Doors!  I[…]

 

It hit me yesterday that my kids don’t watch kid TV shows.  As a result I don’t know what’s on or what’s popular.  We go to bed late and wake up late thereby missing all the cartoon shows and PBS kid programming.  They don’t know what Sesame Street is or – jeez, I don’t even know what else there is.  To compensate we rented,[…]

  

Today, folks, is my 300th article!  I started this blog on May 26, 2009 and have not missed a single day since.  In fact, this 300th article comes on the 264th day since the start date.  But, the number of articles is not what I’m most proud of; it’s the consistency.  I’ve written in the car and […]

 

  

   

The boys and I went on a tour of the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory today.  It’s here in Boulder, just two miles from my house.  I’d never been there despite it being so close and a pretty big deal here in Boulder.  Why hadn’t I?  I don’t know; it was educational and fun.  The best part is that the tour was free and we could[…]

Three bits of nonsense in one post.  That’s productive!

 

 

Red Bull has come out with a cola drink that’s actually pretty damn tasty and not terribly unhealthy.  First off it doesn’t have HFCS and it doesn’t have SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Red Bull, A Frozen Dog Dish and My Roof is Into Valentine’s Day", url: "http://www.almightydad.com/fun-stuff/red-bull-a-frozen-dog-dish-and-my-roof-is-into-valentines-day" });

 

There are three different kinds of safety advice.  There’s advice that is insightful and contains useful information that makes our lives better.  That’s the only helpful kind.  The other two are stupid – advice that everybody knows and does anyway and advice that is obvious and nobody ever follows even though it’s obvious.  In that category we have helmet related advice, running with knives advice and advice related to eating an upside[…]

Mr. Potato Head is perhaps the best marketed toy ever.  But why?  What makes a potato head (it was literally a potato with attachments in 1952) so amusing?  Toys have come and gone, but it seems that Mr. Potato Head is here to stay.  He started as a kit full of various attachments that kids could poke into potatoes or whatever sort of fruit they liked.  Then they added a body.  In the 70’s it was decided that rotten potatoes[…]

    

Did you know the Cozy Coupe car from Little Tykes is 30 years old this year?  I, quite honestly, didn’t even know they still sold it.  I never had one when I was a kid and I don’t remember ever being in one or being interested in getting one.  But I must be the exception because they’re ridiculously popular.  I read in this month’s Mental Floss magazine that 457,000 of these things[…]