osOpinion: The Road to GNU: Chilling Details of a Road Trip Gone Berserk

[ Thanks to Kelly McNeill for this link. ]

"Forty-eight hours without sleep had turned us into animals. After the sick incident at the gas station, we were running scared. The UHaul had a bad starter, so we couldn't shut the vehicle off without stranding ourselves for hours. While I pumped gas into the idling junker, Bryan Damitz, the photographer, went into the Star Mart to buy a map of Vancouver, BC. He came back with a map of Washington, and refused to exchange it, mumbling something about making "a fool of myself in there." When I went into the mart to exchange the map, I suddenly lost my composure. Laughing hysterically I lunged toward the clerk and threw the map down on the counter next to the cash register. I was able to pull myself together enough to demand a map of Vancouver and then flee."

"We had an interview scheduled with Richard Stallman at 11: 00 am. It was 10:20. We were dead lost and running out of time and self-control."

"I said turn right," Damitz shouted, as the truck roared through a respectable university neighborhood, endangering children and wandering pets."

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