From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...>
Date: 2006-11-16T23:45:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question

If a block is supplied to Thread.new, this block becomes the thread main loop. 
Calling super without parents is equivalent in your case to 
	super( period, count, &action )

which is basically doing
	Thread.new { puts "hi" }

hence the problem
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Sylvain