I have arrived in Minneapolis, with a mere 3 hour drive to get home. However, I have also arrived home to a serious snowstorm, so I’ve been holed up in a hotel all night and am waiting for the stuff to clear a bit this afternoon. It’s aggravating.

And you guys have stuffed another everlasting thread entry with comments! Let’s start again.

This is a nice video that just keeps chugging along and also gives a glimpse of what it looks like out here in Minnesota right now. Except that I really, really wish I could get on a wonderfully civilized train and set off for home, instead of the barbarity of driving a car.

Old thread has too many comments. Need new thread. Brain fried. Don’t ask too much of me.

Hey! You took advantage of my prolonged absence trapped in a metal tube hurtling at 37,000 feet above the Atlantic to fill up the last endless thread. Sneaky. You’re making it hard to keep up.

Go ahead. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I’m in Ireland and you’re not, so I don’t care.

This is my last day in California, and you people have filled up the cosmic thread I started here. You know there’s only one sentiment I can express here, and the words to this song are just perfect.

On the day I went away… goodbye…
Was all I had to say… now I…
I want to come again and stay… Oh my my…
Smile, and that will mean that I may

Cause I’ve seen blue skies, through the tears
In my eyes
And I realise.. I’m going home.

Everywhere it’s been the same… feeling…
Like I’m outside in the rain… wheeling…
Free, to try and find a game… dealing…
Cards for sorrow, cards for pain

Cause I’ve seen blue skies through the tears
In my eyes
And I realise.. I’m going home.

I’m going home, I’m going home.

My mascara is running. I can’t go on. You’ll all have to keep chattering away for me.

OK, dudes, you keep filling up these open threads and I have to keep opening new ones…but that’s cool. Groovy even. I’m in California, and I feel fine.

Keep on truckin’, let it all hang out, and talk about whatever.

Yeah, you guys filled up the last open thread with comments already. Since one of the last revelations there was that David Marjanović has creepy red glowing eyes (and that TetZoo is four years old!), this very cheesy video clip seems most appropriate.

Run away while you still can! Or go ahead, fill this one up, too. They’re cheap.

Uh, did that last thread fill up awfully fast? It was like strange creatures ripping up through the floorboards and shredding the populace, which is how the rest of the web sees us, anyway.

I guess I need to make like Doug McClure and get these crazy comments under control.

The last edition of the Never-Ending Thread has once again grown beyond reason, with no end in sight. At the same time, a thread that began with a sneer at creationists and grew to such proportions that it needed to expand to another thread has also bloated up to the point where it needs trimming.

So there I am, holding two tubes on the internet that are pulsing and spewing, ready to cut both off…and what is any scientist’s natural inclination in such circumstances? Why, to take the severed ends and suture them together and see what happens! That is this new thread, an anastomosis between two, count ’em, two old threads. I wonder…will it explode?

I must also confess to some curiosity about how Sven will cope with the fusion.

We just rolled the calendar over here in Minnesota, and are drinking root beer floats, our traditional New Year’s beverage.

Happy Monkey to everyone!