I was walking around Oakland the other day on the way to a job interview and I saw a little encampment that a homeless guy made. Unlike most homeless encampments, this one was fairly neat and organized. Stuff wasn't strewn over the place. It was almost fort-like, with shopping carts and milk crates used to give the illusion that he almost had created himself a home.

The homeless guy was sitting on some milk crates, a towel strewn over it, staring at what appeared to be a TV, also on top of some milk crates and covered over with blankets. As I approached him, he was intently staring at it, like it was his living room and he was just sitting there, watching TV, like we all do in our living room. As it was late last week and the Giants game was on, I thought to myself, "ahh baseball, the equalizer of us all."

Turns out he wasn't watching the baseball game. Nope, turns out instead of watching the game, the homeless guy had himself a Playstation and was busy playing video games.