Join the 40x10 Club & Help Kevin Barbieux (The Homeless Guy blog) Obtain a Refurbished Laptop
*Updated 4x*: Mission Accomplished!
Read about it, here [via The Homeless Guy blog]. Details are spelled out within the comment posts on the subject, particularly those of mine.
To date it appears that only one other person, besides myself, has joined in this effort to help Kevin get his next laptop computer. For those who may not already know, it was in fact Kevin who inspired me to finally try blogging back in October of 2002.
It is my hope that those readers of this blog of mine who possibly have an extra $10.00 to spare and are so inclined, will accept my challenge and send it Kevin's way, either via Paypal or via mail using check or money order.
To learn more about Kevin, his experiences and his blogging, make sure to read his blog. In addition, read Eric Janssen's interview with Kevin, here [via Webraw (March, 2003)]; and, an article featured within USA Today, here (3/17/2003).
*Update 1*: Read the Salon article, here (October 14, 2002; two pages).
*Update 2* (Sunday, June 4th):
Kevin blogged a post about how, although it came about somewhat differently than initially proposed, the mission has been accomplished.
By the way, I made yet another poster (actually it is a captioned photo, using FD's Flickr Toys photo captioner, here) and here it is.
*Update 3* (Friday, June 9th):
Kevin has his new used laptop, using the same to blog about it, here.
The Mac Authority contacted him yesterday to tell him to come over to pick up the laptop, which they gave him for free and no strings attached.
Hence Kevin mentions that if anyone wants their contribution (they sent to him so he could purchase a laptop) returned, to let him know.
Otherwise he intends to use the funds for other computer stuff, including with which to buy a new DV Camera, as he would once again do video blogging.
*Note*: Changed the first photo poster to one with a white background, after having viewed the previous version using a different browser on a public access computer elsewhere and not liking the background color of it. On my laptop I usually use the Firefox 1.5+ browser; replaced the captioned photo of Kevin with a slightly modified one; last updated on Saturday, June 24, 2006 at 8:26 PM [EDT].
4 Comments:
Thanks for sharing. When I came across "The Homeless Guy" (in Vegas), I thought he'd "stolen", the original Homeless Guy's moniker. As I read more of Kevin's blog, I was quite sure he was the same one I'd read back in 2002. Had never seen the news articles, so enjoyed reading them.
You're welcome Alyce. Understood. There were other articles as well, however these are the only ones I have been able to come across so far that remain archived and are therefore still available online.
Famous words.
My check is in the mail. Thanks for letting us know about this one Morgan. I read and got ideas from Kevin a long time ago. Since then I have made friends with some homeless women, each with a name, each with a story, some with tears, some who just want to sleep. I've learned to sit down and talk to strangers, some like Mary I will never forget, and another who shared a story and together we shared love, learning to love ones self. It sounds strange but each time it is a new adventure. These women are not asking for money, just time to talk and sometimes a clean pair of socks, and sometimes we make friends while others want to be alone. Anyway, he taught me something. You taught me, or are teaching me, to understand people and desires to be free from home and the nonsense of some parts of our lives.
Thank you Morgan.
Meg: Indeed. Agreed.
You're welcome. Both your joining the 40x10 club to help Kevin obtain his next laptop as we as what you shared within your comment is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
All: The poster, which includes the photo of Kevin (which I grabbed from his blog a while back) and his famous words Meg makes mentioned of within her comment (i.e., his blog motto), can of course be downloaded by those who would like to do so for either use within a blog post of your own about Kevin and his blog or for printing or both (just click onto it to bring up the enlarged version, then right click in order to download and save it; do not *hotlink*).
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