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I did the grocery trip last week and was astounded as I walked down the cereal aisle. What's the deal with yogurt cereal? It's everywhere! It's an epidemic! We've been inundated with yogurt! Ahhh!

Just about every cereal from every major cereal manufacturer has a yogurt counterpart. Cheerios even has two variations of their Yogurt Burst cereals: Strawberry and Vanilla.

The problem with this, of course, is that my two year old has lost all respect for regular, old, "brown" Cheerios. She's a cereal racist. A grandparent who shall remain nameless introduced her to the "white" cereal, and it's all we hear about: "White cereal, please Daddy!" She then proceeds to shuffle through the bowl, retrieving each and every one of her precious, white, delicious yogurt-covered morsels straight from toddler heaven.

I suppose the manufacturers have introduced these yogurt cereals as a way of making you think it's more "healthy". I mean, yogurt is healthy, right? Or, are they just pumping a little more sugar into our otherwise boring, whole grain cereals?

If you're going to give us more sugar, then at least do it right. I'd like to see all cereals do away with the yogurt counterparts in exchange for chocolate! Mmmm. And, for the health conscious out there, remember that chocolate is healthy.

Make your own candy heart!

Glow-in-the-dark green pigs.

Ok, so they're flourescent and you need a blue/black light, but still. Yikes. And now, the obligatory jokes:

Green Ham and Eggs

Pork, the other green meat

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Th..Th..Th..That's all folks!

Every afternoon I take a short walk across campus to get away from my desk, un-crook my back from the I've-been-in-a-chair-all-day position, find some caffeine (usually a Frappuccino), and call home to see how my wife is doing with our 1-year-old. Yesterday's walk was not the norm.

A sparrow landed right in front of me as I was walking, and it held in its mouth a live, buzzing, bumblebee. The bird proceeded to drop the bee on the ground and then peck it to death. Cool. It was like the Discovery channel live! Unfortunately, I did not have my camera with me, so I've created this drawing for your benefit:

My July 4th weekend was great time of relaxing around the house with the family. The highlight of the weekend, though, was my cinnamon burgers. My creative juices started flowing in the kitchen, and while I was making the burger patties the cinnamon called out to me from the shelf, "Come on, please. Just a dash. You like me on cinnamon toast, let's see what I can do for a burger." So, in the cinnamon went.

Burgers on the table, my wife took one bite, made a funny face, and said, "What did you put in these?" The gig was up. I confessed.*

Now I actually quite enjoyed the burgers. However, I smothered mine with chili, so that may have changed the flavor dynamics a bit. I did manage to find a couple of burger recipes online using cinnamon, so I'm not completely crazy.

*This is a common scene at our house when I do the cooking. I like to do something new and different. Sometimes it works and I look like a gourmet chef; other times it doesn't work and we order pizza. The funniest part of this is that I'm turning into my father. I can recall my mother's words on more than one occasion at the dinner table, "Jerry, what did you put in this?"

A gargantuan 646 pound catfish was caught in Thailand last month. I wonder what pound test line you'd need for that?! See National Geographic for the story and pictures. The funniest thing is that the local villagers ate it.

And I thought Texas had some big fish!