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.
Source: Wired News
This is an amazing story. Apparently nearly all homeless people have e-mail addresses, according to Michael Stoops, director of the National Coalition for the Homeless.
Helping the homeless get e-mail addresses has been a priority for years at shelters across the country. And in an age when most every public library in the nation offers internet access, the net has proven a perfect communication tool for those without a firm real-world address. Yay technology.
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Well, you gotta have some way to keep in touch with people and let them contact you, and if you can’t have real mail…
it’s messed up!…there should not be any homeless people in the richest country of the world…we have lots of homeless folks in Canada too…I would think the priority would be to build more affordable housing for these people…