Well, traffic was down a bit yesterday, although the dedicated thread is going strong. I suspect that some of the readers here were distracted by some silly little game that was released yesterday, and the only way to get them back is to dangle the eye candy in front of them.

Now we’re all caught up on everything.

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The participants in the exhausting thread are hereby ordered to explain this impossible phenomenon: rainbows. I don’t wanna hear any of your crazy Newton talk and refraction and water droplets, neither.

(via The Skeptic’s Field Guide)

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Jebus, I hope not. You may continue your previous perpetual parley.

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I have reset the wildly mutating thread to leap upon the latest internet craze!

I’m on a horse.

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It’s always party time in the exuberant thread, but now it’s party time with magic tricks!

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Harvey Pekar would have fit right into the undendingly discursive thread, and now it’ll never happen.

Just think what he would have said about PepsiCo.

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The well-endowed thread^* respawns, and a new terror arises: a brutal threat to crackers everywhere.

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^*Don’t blame me, that’s the main topic right now.

My wife is the one hanging out with celebrities this weekend, so no, we have not made the Minchin Accommodation.

Please do continue whatever the heck you were talking about. I just had to make this clear to the spouse hanging out in Vegas.

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Just in case you crazy people were so busy scribbling in the perennially distracting thread, here are some 4th of July fireworks.

Blow up in the comments, if you’d like.

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I have allowed the amazing thread to go on a little too long, but my excuse is that I’m distracted. When I’m not trying to get some work done in my hotel room, I’m out among the milling hordes at Convergence. I warn you, the video below may horrify some…but these motley nerds, geeks, weirdos, freaks, and strangely imaginative and gentle partiers are my people.

It’s going to be interesting tonight. The Trophy Wife™, who is actually a normal person and has never been to a con before, arrives to find out what goes on at these things, and there may be a little culture shock. It could unlock her inner geek, or there may be marriage counseling and psychiatry in our future. I can take being locked in the rubber room, dear, as long as there is wireless.

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