My Bag, Let Me Show You It
A couple of years back Lifehacker ran a series of posts displaying user-submitted shots of readers' Go Bags (what you grab and haul every day) and their disgorged contents. I sat entranced for hours, leering over this voyeuristic yet impersonal display of things usually hidden away. Eventually I made my own.
More recently several editors shared the contents of their laptop bags and a similar spell was cast, I simply had to know each and every gadget and velcro wrap and oh my my is that a stainless steel thumb drive?
Hit the jump for a taste of madness. Or better yet share your own Go Bag over in the Weekly Geek Flickr Pool.
1. Camelback MAXIMUM GEAR
Left over from patrolling days, decently constructed and doesn't show the dust.
2. Kindle 2
After leaving all my DUNE books behind on a sandbox foray several years back I decided to make the digital plunge for this go around. Great to haul across the world in place of pounds and pounds of books.
3. Pelican Hardback 1080
Do yourself a favor and purchase this plastic and steel personification of Peace of Mind. You can drop your laptop in a dire otter filled lake and BE OK.
4. Macbook 2.4GHz 4GB RAM
Still stickerless as I keep balking at varied arrangements. You have no idea.
5. Siig cooling tray laptop elevator
6. Lacie Ruggedized 500GB
Encrypted system backup
7. Lacie Ruggedized 500GB
Comics, software, ebooks, wikipedia snapshot
8. Mandatory reflective belt
9. Mechanix gloves
10. WD 500GB
Video media, sure beats a spindle or jacket of the easily destroyed optical alternative.
11. Microsoft BT mouse
12. Headlamp, white or red LED
13. Cultural Smart Card and Maps
Knowing is Half the Battle.
14. Moleskin
Squared reporter style, two pages left.
15. iPhone 3G and Otterbox case
Unlocked for use on the local network, nigh impervious to dust.
16. Oakley Half Jackets, Polarized Lenses
17. Orange Bag
USB cable, USB Y cable, Firewire, holds all external drives.
18. TAPATIO
Mandatory because enough of this stuff drowns ill flavored chow.
(Thanks to Chris and the Jinnster!)
19. Multimeter
20. Wireless 10 key pad
I hate it like poison but sometimes you gotta do some database entry.
21. Butane lighter with an LED on the bottom
So you can see what you are burning!
22. Amazon Kindle proprietary USB cable
23. Tripod for non-pictured Panasonic DMC-LX3
Mostly used for documenting gear breakages. Yes, it's pink.
24. Crystal light powdered drink mix
Reserve supply.
25. Sharpie, Mechanical Pencil, Black Pen
26. LED, two strengths or strobe
Oh SNAP was that a camel spider!?
27. Leatherman Surge, matte black
Replacing still-servicable Leatherman Wave (6 years old?) but the tiny flathead screwdriver already broke.
28. Chapstick
Lips be parchin'
29. 8GB corsair, two middling quality flash drives
Corsair has work stuff in a truecrypt volume.
30. Fake money
They don't do change out here.
31. Cravat
Hangs out back pocket. Use in case of sandstorm or need of tourniquet or breakdancing.
31. (dammit) AAA batteries
For mouse, headlamp
32. 5V USB charger
33. Leatherman Micra
One time a lady was running arround frantically looking for tweezers and I saved the day. So she could pluck her eyebrows.
34. Keyring SD case with 4GB Sandisk
35. USB to Serial adapter
Now I'm kind of curious where all my console cables ran off to.
36. LED flashlight, backup
37. Earplugs
38. iPhone USB cable
39. mini DVI to DVI adapter
40. SkullCandy something or other headphones
Cheap backups that have wormed in to circulation
41. Microfiber cloth
Used for e v e r y t h i n g
42. RSA SecureID card
To access work VPN, wish they'd given me the key fob.
43. Casio Pathfinder
Best piece of wearable tech I've bought to date. Syncs with atomic clock via RF (well, in the states and Japan), solar powered, altimeter, world time, barometer, all kinds of magic. I can sit in a hot tub and tell you exactly how hot it is, baby.
44. Clif Bar
This has been in my bag for 3 months and I see no reason to throw it away.
45. Some off brand headphones
Cloth covered cables made the sale but now they are spotty and they need to be fixed.
46. A towel sized wetnap
REFRESHING.
