This past weekend, I, along with thousands of others, attended Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. We drove down on Friday and headed to the Rally early Saturday. We got there early enough to get a great spot close to the stage, but a couple of us got shafted on a food run when the Park Police weren’t letting people back in, causing them to miss half the Rally.

I won’t bother talking too much about the Rally itself, as I’m sure if you care you’ve watched it online, but it was a lot of fun and I met plenty of other Redditors (thanks to the QR Code game the Reddit admins cooked up) and even met one of Reddit’s cofounders at the Reddit afterparty (I even got a shirt signed).

Estimates for the event put it at around 215,000 people, and I can believe it. The mall was packed, and from satellite photos, there were people a couple blocks out in either direction. I wish we’d had another day or so to explore the city, but we all had something to get back to on Monday, so after another ~12 hours in the car, we were back in Louisville (made much less monotonous thanks to decent 3G coverage along the interstate).