Hi-tech homeless? - GoFuckYourself.com

SykkBoy · 09-18-2007, 01:40 PM

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FILLMORE, California -- Happy Ivy doesn't have a bathroom or a kitchen in the bus he calls home. He does, however, have a video-editing station.

Living in a squalid, Woodstock-style bus parked in a Fillmore, California, orange grove, the 53-year-old homeless man charges a power generator from a utility shed and uses Wi-Fi from a nearby access point. From this humble camp, he's managed to run a 'round-the-clock internet television studio, organize grassroots political efforts, record a full-length album and write his autobiography, all while subsisting on oranges and avocados.

He claims he created one of the first handheld computer scanners and played a major part in the data transmission industry in the early 1990s. "I've always been trying to stay up on internet technology," Ivy said.

Ivy isn't the only homeless person who makes it a priority to keep gadgets handy even when a cooked meal is hard to come by.

http://www.wired.com/science/discove.../2006/06/71153

I wasn't even aware there were homeless blogs...

pornguy · 09-18-2007, 01:53 PM

Um. Now thats strange.

Hentaikid · 09-18-2007, 01:54 PM

Over on netpond there's a webmaster who is homeless, so yeah.

HomerSimpson · 09-18-2007, 01:57 PM

heheh
Who is interested in taking part in "Laptops to Hobos Foundation" ?

DollarKing · 09-18-2007, 02:51 PM

How do think you would cope if you ended up homeless tomorrow?
I have given money out to people here and there myself but its a real eyesore to see someone in a sleeping bag outside a shop doorway!
The perils of being homeless as well like a man i knew not too far away from me who had two 14 yearolds put fireworks in his clothing while he was asleep and set him on fire. He later died from 80 percent burns.

Rowdy · 09-18-2007, 03:16 PM

Where there is a true will .. there is a way huh

DollarKing · 09-18-2007, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Rowdy

Where there is a true will .. there is a way huh

That's quite obscure as a answer i was thinking how much easier it must have been to choose robbing as a living back in the 60s ,50s etc when technology was not as nearly sophisticated.
Personally i take the robin hood ideology to solve the prob for myself but i refer to my latter comment!

Bird · 09-18-2007, 03:28 PM

I've thought about that before. Its totally possible to leach of public utilities. It would be kind of fun to go out and work from all kind of locations.

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09-18-2007, 01:54 PM	#3
Hentaikid Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,249	Over on netpond there's a webmaster who is homeless, so yeah.

09-18-2007, 02:51 PM	#5
DollarKing Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 526	How do think you would cope if you ended up homeless tomorrow? I have given money out to people here and there myself but its a real eyesore to see someone in a sleeping bag outside a shop doorway! The perils of being homeless as well like a man i knew not too far away from me who had two 14 yearolds put fireworks in his clothing while he was asleep and set him on fire. He later died from 80 percent burns.

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Rowdy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: central US Posts: 637	Where there is a true will .. there is a way huh