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Humanity has achieved the ability to search the universe far and wide, peering deeply into the abyss between the stars, casting our net across billions of years and billions upon billions of stars. What do I do with this technology?

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Woo!

And this morning's ZooBorns link is a local-to-us baby jaguar at the Fort Worth Zoo! Definitely time to go to the zoo...aaargh we have, like, one weekend open between now and Thanksgiving...

Chives vs chives

Thanks for all the comments on the previous post about dialect differences when using "chives" vs. "green onions." Between here and Facebook, it's been rather interesting, and there seems to be a strong U.S. Southern influence in using "chives."

Essentially, people from Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana have reported using the term "chives" to refer to green onions, and a couple from Texas have specified that in their dialect, when the bulb and green stems are together, they're green onions, but when the green tops are removed, the tops become chives.

We also called Toby's mom last night to confirm and by a stroke of luck it turned out his parents were visiting family, so we confirmed that her sister, who also grew up in Kentucky, calls them chives. Toby's dad, who grew up in Florida, calls them chives,, but can't remember if he always called them that or if he picked it up from Toby's mom.