Could a tech-savvy kid who happens to be homeless make it in New York City by living at Starbucks and Kinko's and depending on the kindness of strangers? An interview conducted at the Starbucks on 41st & Madison with New York City's Starbucks homeless nerd attempts to find out...

(NOTE: all of this apparently took place on April 1, so draw your own conclusions...)

"Corey turns 21 tomorrow. He won't be celebrating this rite of passage at '21' or over impetuous fistfuls of Jagermeister but will instead spend the night sleeping upright in a chair at a 24-hour Kinko's. Corey has been homeless in New York City for the past three and a half months.

He bathes in churches, spending $20 a week on mouthwash, shaving cream, and other necessities. The self-taught Midwestern transplant earns money by helping people with their computer problems at Kinko's come nightfall. During the day, he uses the ghetto-tech computer equipment, he discovered in a dumpster, to surf the Internet at Starbucks (picking up free wireless waves from the neighborhood)."