[Dorian-Marie]

So he got food, water, shower and toilets from Google's office.

He only used his van as a sleeping place.

He should definitely do an AMA:

    What about Internet access?
    What about the cold? Sleeping bags? Isolation inside the van?
    What about the hot? Air conditioning?

[ggambetta]

Internet access?

At Google HQ?

Being an employee?

...no clue :(

[bbcbasic]

What about the NSFW stuff? I guess you could hook up a wifi access point and tunnel your connection through to a VPN.

[yongjik]

In fact, there's so much NSFW stuff floating around the web that I had to sign a form when I joined Google that said I won't sue Google for being exposed to porn during work.

Nobody cares if you click a link to porn site. In many cases, it might even be a part of your work. ("Dang, porn again, this query shouldn't show porn!")

[mrslx]

if you can find it with google, its prob okay..

[astrange]

Regular California apartments don't have air conditioning anyway.

[pbiggar]

AFAIK it's only in SF they don't. Everywhere else in California is properly hot.

[tjohns]

Living in Los Angeles as a college student for five years, none of my apartments had air conditioning. Sure, some houses had it... but even in LA it's a bit of a luxury.

Same goes for the homes of everyone I knew in Lake Tahoe, where I grew up. The climate's similar to the bay during the summer, but it's still (partially) in California. ;)

[mrbill]

Born and grown up in Oklahoma, and living in Texas (Austin from '96-04, Houston for the past ten years) living somewhere without AC seems so bizarre. What if you like it cooler than the weather permits?

Heck, I have central AC in my house here, and I keep the house generally at 75, but have a window AC in my bedroom that lets me crank it down to 66-68 in there.

[beachstartup]

yes, it sucks without ac.

in california, it's the older buildings that aren't fitted for it. most new buildings have it.

i live in an old building (built in 50s) and a year ago i finally couldn't stand it any longer and bought a floor standing unit that i vent out the window. it's nice.

[Eiriksmal]

Heh, heh. San Diego is pretty temperate and many of the houses were properly constructed--they don't rely on air conditioning, so you can shrug off the 88* summer days. High ceilings, copious windows and balconies... Slide those doors and windows open, revel in the near-constant ocean breeze, never sweat. Until persistent heat and high humidity (relatively high, still laughable compared to the southern states I hail from) struck southern California year 'round the past few years. Many of my neighbors are installing air conditioning after living without it for 28+ years.

We'll see how El Nino ruins things for us holdouts.

[binarycrusader]

Nope; plenty of apartments in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and Mountain View don't have air conditioning.

I lived in one in Menlo Park that I wished had air conditioning...

[s73v3r]

Every apartment I've had in Southern California has had air conditioning.

[oaktowner]

Cellular for internet, if the wireless doesn't reach (and Google has pretty good wireless outside on much of the campus).

[ljk]

> What about Internet access?

Probably wi-fi