I was a homeless man two Januaries ago -- I lived in a van at the corner of MLK and Oregon in Berkeley. This wasn't a student project, either. I really just had no money, no friends who would take me and nowhere else to go. Thank God someone loaned me their van.

In the intervening years, many kind people tolerated me as I wormed my way into IT. Now I live in a house and, yes indeed, drink the wines of Napa and other places.