I'm also snorting aloud while reading Catalog Living.

I'm sort of careful around milk with Grace. If by careful you mean I avoid cow's milk mostly. However, she has had had almond milk, soy milk, rice milk, coconut milk and hemp milk. She eats goat's milk yogurt or sheep's milk yogurt (for the record, sheep's milk yogurt is The Best Yogurt EVER like Greek Yogurt but yummier) and cow's milk yogurt.

It's been years since she's had cow's milk and I know that if I go a bit without it, when I have it again, I feel sort of bloated and sick. Or at least that's my reasoning.

More faux science from popular media!

BREAKING NEWS SAYS FOOD ON MOST KIDS MENUS IS NOT HEALTHY

The greasy Mac & Cheese Quesadilla kids meal at Friendly's -- with a whopping 2,270 calories -- tops the list of unhealthy, fattening foods parents feed their kids at restaurants, according to an eye-opening survey by thedailybeast.com.

"Children's meals at restaurants are garbage," said Mary Jo Messito, director of the Pediatric Obesity Clinic at Bellevue Hospital.

"Somehow, the restaurant industry has created special meals for children that are trash. And I don't know where that came from."

Yes, it's just baffling why a chain family restaurant would put macaroni & cheese on their children's menu. Most kids I know would definitely prefer a nice piece of grilled fish with steamed veggies on the side.

Sue, lack of pollination is becoming a persistent problem in North America generally, because of the bee collapse.

Interesting. I've seen bees in the garden, but they've been at the flower beds, not the veggies. (My zucchini have nasturtium planted around them and the tomatoes have marigolds as companion plants.) And god knows, something is pollinating the tomatoes, because they are out of control.

I loved rice cereal as a kid. So much that I are baby cereal way past the baby age.

Oh, I was careful with milk, too! Well, not careful so much as I just didn't give any until they were a year old. I never experimented with any of the others.

True story: my company's "IT guy" (scare quotes seem to apply here) just came over to my desk with an Iomega hard drive and pointed to a port on the back.

Him: "What's that? I can't connect it to my computer."
Me: "A firewire port. You need my firewire cable?"
Him: "What's firewire?"

Yes, he's the on-staff "computer guy" for a company whose entire production department is Macs. Needless to say, I (and sometimes chatty co-worker) am the entire Mac tech support department for the company.

What's. Firewire.

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Tom is a cutiehead and I laughed when I read his links.

Should I vibrate the plants? I have flowers and no tomato!

It does help. While some people use actual vibrators, I just tap the stem near the flowers.

Oh man, someone has to apply to this one, just for fun:

If you're interested, please respond with why we should hire you in 140 characters or less.