When I was homeless in Los Angeles from the late nineties through 2005, I traversed the streets with a laptop, keeping what I called an "Offline Journal" of my adventures in homelessness.
"Offline" referred to my status as a non-house-dwelling person off the grid of mortgage and utilities slavery, not to my internet status.
I had internet. It was sketchy and sometimes an adventure finding unguarded phone jacks to plug in to my dial-up ISP, but I had internet. Pictured above is a unisex AM/PM restroom which had a painted-over and forgotten phone jack I used a lot. I found other unguarded phone jacks at a Texaco, a shopping mall and in apartment complex parking garages.
I might've been homeless, but I kept pluggin' away (see Revver video above).
Here's an interesting Wired story about other internet-connected houseless folk.
"Offline" referred to my status as a non-house-dwelling person off the grid of mortgage and utilities slavery, not to my internet status.
I had internet. It was sketchy and sometimes an adventure finding unguarded phone jacks to plug in to my dial-up ISP, but I had internet. Pictured above is a unisex AM/PM restroom which had a painted-over and forgotten phone jack I used a lot. I found other unguarded phone jacks at a Texaco, a shopping mall and in apartment complex parking garages.
I might've been homeless, but I kept pluggin' away (see Revver video above).
Here's an interesting Wired story about other internet-connected houseless folk.
Tags: Revver, funny videos, homeless, wired, plugging away, Los Angeles, laptop, offline journal, off the grid, unguarded phone jack, dial-up, unisex restroom, AM/PM, Wired, internet, jarvis
Wild. I guess most folks would think if you can figure out this computer shit, which many can't seem to do, then what the hell are you doin' bein' homeless? Shit happens I guess. It's not like I don't dream about being off the grid, without all the bills and attachments to bullshit society. Excellent rant by that dude. His other one on Mel Gibson was hilarious.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I like Bedlam's rants.
ReplyDeleteI know some real bright homeless folks and some dumber than mud homeowners, so it all averages out, I guess.