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From I’m Homeless and This Is Why I Have an iPad on Gizmodo, a piece which talks to a homeless man who nevertheless owns and uses an iPad and an MSI Wind netbook:

The interesting thing is, Paris is very technofriendly. I have met a lot of people when they ask me how I like my iPad… It’s funny to see them react when I say I live off of it. But when people see a gadget, they’re more likely to take you as a person rather than a drug-driven grifter out for hand-outs. Odd piece of psychology I guess.

From The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams:

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Clearly, this guy knows where his towel is.