Almost every Friday Skip drops an “Open Thread” Post at 6:30 pm. Most of the regulars know what that means but what does it mean. I’ll defer to technology for the answer.
With computer programming, a thread is a small set of instructions designed to be scheduled and executed by the CPU independently of the parent process. For example, a program may have an open thread waiting for a specific event to occur or running a separate job, allowing the main program to perform other tasks. A program is capable of having multiple threads open at once and terminates or suspends them after the task is completed or the program is closed.
In the blogosphere, an open thread is an invitation to take any event and run with it. No one will tell you that you’ve wandered off-thread, nor will we ask you to stop wandering onto topics of no relevance to the articles under which you are commenting – because everything is relevant.
So, the open thread post is nothing more than an invitation to have a friendly food fight (with words) using whatever you can imagine on the menu, as long as you stick to all the other rules.
Today’s spark for this fire is the cartoon above.
‘When you leave California (or NY, NJ, CT, RI, MA, etc.,) remember that you are a Refugee, not a Missionary.’
I’ve not seen it said better.
Have at it!
