With so much going on in the world of The Hip Modern Urban Parent, so many events and issues that affect us and the lives of our children, it's sometimes hard for me to choose a blogworthy topic. Health care? Education? Global warming? The war in Iraq? The new Shins album? Thank God Jay sent me a lead. David over at Ironic Sans (which may be my new favorite blog, if only for the Pre-Pixelated Clothes For Reality TV Shows) found Google's latest Fun Feature, Patent Search, and looked up some patents issued to some famous and semi-famous people.
Of note to Hip Modern Dads is the brainchild of Jamie Lee Curtis, a diaper-ish contraption (scroll down; you'll find it between something invented by Lawrence Welk, and a radar-like device invented by Gary Burghoff - savor that delicious irony, my friends; that's a Ruth's Chris Filet Of Irony) that she invented some twenty years ago. Hip Modern Dads will no doubt recall Ms. Curtis/Mrs. Harlan Pepper some twenty years ago. Remember Trading Places? Yeah, you do. I've looked over that diagram a few times and still can't quite figure out what the diaper-ish contraption is supposed to do. I've also looked over the Safe Search Off Google Photo Search of "Jamie Lee Curtis + 'Trading Places'" a few times, and God bless her.
Also noteworthy: Marlon Brando's bongo tightener (there's a phrase I never thought I'd type), and Hedy Lamarr's secret communication device. And if upon reading "Hedy Lamarr's secret communication device", you said "That's HEDLEY!", give yourself an extra schnitzengruben.
