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Episode: 1803
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Title: HPR1803: What's In My Bag?
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1803/hpr1803.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 09:26:57
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This in HPR episode 1803 entitled What's In My Bag?
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And in part of the series, What's In My Toolkit?
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It is hosted by Matamilorgi 33K Dad and in about 13 minutes long.
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The summary is the geek that describes his daily career and bag.
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Hello, hacker public radio.
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This is the geek dad.
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My name is Matt and I am the stay-at-home geek dad in Northern California.
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Coming to you from beautiful Southern California where I'm on vacation with my family, I had
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a little bit of time to myself so I thought I would record an episode for HPR.
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I am going to go with a What's In My Bag episode.
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I am basing this episode on a blog post.
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I did last fall for Nightwise over at Nightwise.com and he did a whole week of guest bloggers
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doing What's In My Bag.
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So I'm going to sort of go through that blog post and I will of course include a link
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to it in the show notes.
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I also will reference a photograph that accompanied the article on Nightwise.com and I will link
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that in the show notes as well.
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So let's get started with What's In My Bag.
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First off the bag itself is a messenger style bag with a zippered main compartment, a
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zippered exterior compartment on each end and four large pockets surrounding the main
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pocket inside the bag.
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As I am the geek dad, this bag is in fact a repurposed diaper bag.
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We got several diaper bags with our two kids and this particular one was never used.
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I found it in a closet and decided to use it as my tech bag.
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As an added bonus one of the end pockets is designed to transport a bottle for feeding
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a baby so it's insulated.
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Now usually you'll find either a bottle of water or a bottle of diet mountain dew in this
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pocket when I'm carrying it around.
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Moving on to gear, you will come to find that I am very much a mobile type of guy.
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Front and center is my mobile phone which is an LG G3 on the Sprint network.
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We recently last fall has switched from Verizon to Sprint.
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I left my Galaxy S3 behind and moved on to the LG G3.
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I love the phone, the only downside really is battery life.
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To combat this, I turn the brightness away down and I have associated my calendar and
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contacts with my own cloud server running on digital ocean.
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Using CalDab and CardDab I have all the functionality I need and for some reason the fewer
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Google services I use the longer my battery lasts.
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Along with my phone or a pair of earbuds which I use to listen to music and podcasts
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while driving or on the treadmill.
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I also have a nice set of over-the-ear Bluetooth headphones.
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The type that go have the bar that goes around the back of your head as opposed to over-the-top
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of your head which is nice and I like those a lot.
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I also keep my micro fiber cleaning cloth for all my devices and I also use it to keep
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my sunglasses clean.
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Living in California I have a lot of sun, we have a lot of sun and my eyes get strained
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very easily so I keep my sunglasses clean and with me all the time.
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Also in my bag is my Kindle.
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It's an E-Inc Kindle, I'm an avid reader and I love my e-books.
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With the Kindle I have a micro USB cable along with a 110-volt wall charger and a 12-volt
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car charger and both of these can be used to charge either my phone or my Kindle.
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I also carry a small tripod and mount that holds my cell phone.
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I can also unscrew the mount and screw the tripod into my Zoom H4N which is a mobile
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recorder and it's what I'm using right now to record this podcast so I can keep that
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with me as well and the tripod works great for that.
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I keep the mount for my cell phone so if I want to watch a video or use Skype or Google
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Hangouts for a video call I can do that without having to continually hold my phone.
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I also carry a notebook and a mechanical pencil for those rare occasions that I want to
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jot down an analog note.
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I tend to use Evernote on my phone for capturing most things.
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I also have a collection of cables that I keep with me including a USB cable, an eighth
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inch stereo patch cable and a full size HDMI cable.
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I use those along with the main piece of tech in my bag which is my Acer C720 Chromebook.
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I have it in a case logic sleeve style case.
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You'll also see if you check out the picture that I'm including with this podcast in the
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show notes.
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Sitting on the Chromebook is a stack of business cards.
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I have some for my website and my podcast which you can find at geekdad.thestrangeland.net.
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I've recently posted episode 5 of the Geek Dad Show and I would love to have you guys
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check it out.
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I love my Chromebook.
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I do just about everything I do on the web so I live in a browser and it makes the
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Chromebook a great machine for me even with the stock Chrome OS.
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Now I have done some experimentation.
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I've loaded elementary Freya on it and I've loaded Zabuntu on it and I even got it
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running off of a live DVD.
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Well yeah, it was on a USB stick but it was a live DVD of Antigose which is an arch-based
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Linux distribution.
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I currently keep just Chrome OS running on it in developer mode and I use developer
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mode so that I can use the shell and use the SSH tools to access my home network when
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I'm on the road.
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I do a lot of writing in VIM so I have VIM on my server and I can just SSH into it and
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pull up VIM and I have my VIM environment just the way I like it.
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Just as if I'm sitting in front of my machine at home.
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So anyway, my friend and co-guest blogger on this particular in my bag week as well
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as a common contributor to Nightwise.com is Daniel Messer, the cyber punk librarian and
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he says his favorite operating system is Firefox.
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He runs Firefox on Mac, Linux and Windows and he keeps all his data synced and sliding
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between the systems.
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I feel the same way about Chrome.
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I run it on my Linux machines of course and on my Chromebook and so that works out
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really well for me.
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Now I do have a couple of minor exceptions as to doing everything that I do on my Chromebook.
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These exceptions are Skype and audio recording and editing.
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So right now as I said I'm recording into my Zoom H4N and I will load this recording
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file onto my Linux laptop and pull it up an audacity and clean it up and make sure that
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it is ready to go.
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I'm excited now that Skype for Web is in beta and I may be able to use that on my Chromebook
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coming up soon.
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Rounding out what's left in my bag I have a stack of USB drives and also a 300GB Western
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digital USB hard drive.
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I have lots of USB sticks with me all the time.
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I have one that just runs Tails Linux so I can boot into an anonymous Linux if I'm out
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and about and I don't have access to my machine.
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Another one I have set up with multi boot so I can carry clonezilla and system rescue
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CD and super grab disk and a couple of Linux distribution ISOs whatever it is I'm interested
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in at the time I usually keep a straight up Ubuntu the latest LTS so if I need to demo Linux
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for a friend I always have that with me.
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I subscribe to the theory of redundancy which states if it doesn't exist in three places
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it doesn't exist so to that end I always have plenty of USB storage with me.
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So I will let you know that I sometimes carry my main Linux laptop which is a Lenovo
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V570 it's an i5 it's got four gigs of RAM and it's my workhorse it's currently running
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Ubuntu 1404 with the Unity desktop but I also have open box and i3 installed just to
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noodle around with I do enjoy doing some noodleing when I'm not writing or working on the websites
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or you know we're working on a podcast so I sometimes carry a waterproof digital point
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and shoot camera I am a geek dad after all so I'm out and about with my kids and sometimes
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that means we're at the pool or the splash pad or running through the sprinklers at the
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park and so it's nice to have a waterproof camera so that I don't have to worry about
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getting out my phone and using that every time I want to take a picture so I don't usually
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carry the charger for my Chromebook with me all the time I get days of battery life particularly
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when I'm using Chrome OS so I haven't needed for most times the one I'm out for the day or even
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if I'm out for a couple of days not needing the charging rig if I'm on vacation like I am
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right now I will throw it in the bag it fits easily enough so anyway that's um that's pretty
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much it for wasn't my bag these are the things that I carry pretty much all the time I have started
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to carry the H4N with me on a more regular basis so that as I have time if I want to sit down
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and record something I have that available to do that so I am going to sign off now thanks for
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listening to Hacker Public Radio and please record an episode I want to say a particular thanks
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to John Culp who has been keeping us in shows fairly single-handedly for the last couple of weeks
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John I really appreciate your insights and your content and I would encourage anyone else that's
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out there that wants to record a show please record a show for Hacker Public Radio thanks and have
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a great day bye
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