h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...about to hit the road for Washington, DC. Lloyd and I will be attending/documenting the peace rally there on Saturday. I'll post any interesting stories right here in my journal, I guess. The agenda for today, however, is to get halfway up the Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic drive through the Appalachians, to a hostel in Galax, Virginia. Hopefully we won't get lost in the back-roads around Ducktown, Tennessee, where we've got a short-cut planned.

GTBacchus, signing off from America's Deep South...

*waves*
Have a good time!

*thanks God the sniper has been caught*

I had a lovely time, thank you! Now I'm, as indicated in my name, stranded in Alabama, trying to find a part for my van so I can drive home. I'm about to write an entry about my experience at the peace rally, unless something distracts me from that. When I've got something up, I'll post a link here.



Incidentally, I read something in your journal recently about violent video games, and how you thought the sniper might be a kid (or kids) who was ruined by those. That turned out not to be the case, but I heard something equally if not more disturbing about video games.

Apparently the US Army is looking to recruit people who are really good at video games. War has progressed technologically to the point that piloting a tank or a warplane is not that different from playing a computer game. Little did my generation and subsequent ones know that while we were being entertained by our Nintendos and Sony Playstations and PC games, that we were being trained for a new hi-tech military. Bizarre, isn't it?

As I quipped to a friend of mine in San Francisco, if they find a way to kill people by playing Windows Minesweeper, I'll be lethal!


GTB