“They never expected it to be easy. They knew they’d have to haul the computer equipment through miles of dense bamboo forests populated by poisonous snakes and prowling guerrilla fighters before they could even begin setting up the network. They expected the suffocating clouds of red dust followed by monsoon floods...” But they were geeks, and their vacations were always like this. Real rollovers, they had never developed even the rudiments of sales resistance that you and I take for granted when dealing with sharp, cigar-smoking travel agents. (From Wired, via Idealist.org