>  I guess kids today get their thrills from video games and the like; it's
>  a shame that they're distracted from taking up more wholesome pursuits.

I guess you haven't dropped in on the rec.pyrotechnics newsgroup...

There's a move afoot to take those would-be mad bombers and get them
into something slightly more respectable and considerably more
challanging: display pyrotechnics.  Amateur pyrotechnics seems to be
attracting reasonable number of people these days.  See www.pgi.org and
wpa.pyrotechnics.org, and http://ai.chem.ohiou.edu/~tip/pyro.html, for
instance.

BillW