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Episode: 1307
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Title: HPR1307: What's in my Bag
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1307/hpr1307.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 23:17:21
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My Handle is Excipiter. This show is about what's in my bag. This is my second effort
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at a show. I urge others to give you the try. It's not all that hard and the people at
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HPR really help out. So what's in my bag? My bag is a leather briefcase style bag with five
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compartments. I always get them with five because then I can consistently organize my things whether
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it's a new bag or an old bag or a transfer stuff. The bag has two compartments that are smaller,
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zippered and the one at the back is where I'm going to start. I have a magnetic card in there which
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is necessary for me to get in and out of the compound where I'm living right now. Because the card
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is in there by itself, I can just hold the briefcase up to the card reader and move the door opens
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and I'm in. This is really an advantage because it's tough to drop the card or lose it since it
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never comes out of that section of the case. As well, if I have to, I can open the zipper all the way
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and that compartment is big enough that I can put in a file folder vertically and carry papers
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securely that way so I don't get crushed messed up. The main compartment in the middle has three
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parts. The first part is a laptop section. Right now I don't have a laptop small enough to go
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into that bag but I do have a tablet. That means that there's enough room that I can put in the
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tablet and it's a little stand as well. An extra pair of headphones and they were occasional
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loose gear on dragging around with me like a mini keyboard if I'm going to have to do a lot of
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typing. It's a foldable Bluetooth keyboard and all of that stuff just slots in there.
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In the middle it's much more open. I keep my wallet but I also carry a one terabyte drive and
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that represents a full backup of my laptop. This is my weak version of off-site backup. It isn't
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really off-site all the time but mostly it is. If it is an off-site, neither am I. So I'm there so
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it isn't going to get stolen or disappear or get damaged. I'm going to be there and know about it.
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The main compartment is big enough to also take a case for extra pair of glasses and a coin purse.
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The coin purse though is full of USBs. I like to carry them with me. I think of them as my toolset
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and I have a bunch because where I am they're quite cheap. I have a three sand disk. One is a
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sand disk slide bottle and I have portable apps on there. That means if I'm using an unfamiliar
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computer and the version of Windows, almost always Windows, won't run my version at a power point.
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I can put in a portable app and use the office suite to carry on with my presentation. I also have
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a media player on there and a web surfer. I have a few documents saved on there but mainly it's
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just to have the apps. I find this is a very big help when you're forced to work at different
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computers and you can never be sure if the particular file you've got's going to run on the
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particular software they've got. I also have a sand disk with a win 7 install on it. I can run
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a clean version of Windows and install it onto a computer if I need to. The version is a legal
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version so it can be registered if the person I'm getting it to has a legal version and they can
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input their license and key numbers. I also have a sand disk that's called a blade on it. I'm
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carrying right now the Mint 15 install. I'm not totally confident in Mint 15 yet because it's still
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in beta so I'm also carrying a Kingston USB and it's got Mint 14 on it. I find these really
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helpful because you can slap in the USB boot from it and check the hardware on a computer to see
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if it's a hardware problem or a software problem. I find that that speeds up diagnostics for me
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a great deal. I'm only helping out friends I don't mess with their hardware so it's really
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helpful for me to know fast if it's a hardware issue in which case I'm done or if it's a software
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and they need some help tweaking things. Before I will put any of my precious precious USBs into
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such a computer though I run Microsoft security essentials over the computer.
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It's not ideal but it's clean and it's better than nothing. I can then put in a USB with reasonable
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confidence that it will still work when I take it out. I'm also at the moment carrying another
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Kingston with Ubuntu 12s on it. A lot of people are willing to use Linux if they can see how easy it
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is to use. I like the version 12 so I tend to show it to people and can let them play around with it
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conveniently enough. That's how I got into Linux. If you heard my other podcast you'll know that.
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Last of all in the Kingston lineup and there are four. I have a disk drive checker so this is one
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that'll go over and look for bad sectors and otherwise check out those spin disks or the it'll do an
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SSD as well and I can also check peripherals if we plug them into the computer before it grew up of course.
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I have a Guile G-E-I-L which is a local product and it actually works very well. I bought it because
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it has a super heavy metal case. I mean you could take this they throw it in a wall and leave it
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dead on the wall. It's so ridiculously overdone that I had to have it. Right now I'm carrying
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TK3 on it so if I need the database programs of the type I've got them with me. Finally I have
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a little Toshiba USB and mainly I'm carrying the files that I might need at work or I'm going to
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give to people or whatever that may be. So that coin purse is pretty well stuffed but I like
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carrying the USBs this way because the coin purse offers them a bit of protection with water proof.
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I like to think it cuts down on the dust and lid. Also it means it's easy for me to find the
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USBs because they're all sitting there at a little coin purse in that main compartment.
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Usually I also discover in the bottom of that compartment multiple pens that I thought had
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disappear. It's changed because I'm impatient when I'm getting the change. I tend to just grab it
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drop it into that main compartment. It's not going here but I also have something that I think
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others should look into. I always carry a jeweler's loop. The thing with the jeweler's loop
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is they're quite small but the magnification rate is very high. So if you're looking at those
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teeny tiny model numbers on something you can expand them quite if you'll magnify them in effect
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and see them quite easily. Also as an aging I find it's helpful for reading very small print
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such as the sort you get on the boxes that this or that you're buying like come in.
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I find it helpful to check out the specs and the details of the product that I'm purchasing
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for my computer. I have a phone pocket in there it's a last-sized so when your phone goes in
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it's a little bit of a drag to get it in but when it's in it stays there. I can turn my bag over
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and shake it and that phone goes nowhere. I really recommend that. I often carry a extra set of
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glasses and a tiny little box of screwdrivers. They're magnetized which is helpful when you're
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taking out drives from a computer tightening them up or whatever. The screwdrivers are quite small
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nice to the set different heads and the whole thing is a little bit bigger than a cigarette
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package. The last section of the main compartment is zippered so if I've got anything valuable
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that I really cannot lose it goes in there and I can zip it down. I don't think a pick pocket
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could get at it because I have to do all the plant-borne foot on it to get the zippered to slide
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the side of the case is very loose and the zipper tends to get jammed because it sort of wrinkles
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up when you try to pull it. So you need two hands and zip it along. I think that that makes it
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pretty pretty spring pick pockets. In the funky apartment it's shallow but it's a bit baggy so
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in there I have a tether which has my keys on it. The beauty of a tether is that you just loop
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your finger around the tether part and the keys are up in your hand and you can open the door
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or whatever and then you cannot drop your keys. Unless you drop your hold back and it's saying
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I've never done it. I'm just saying it doesn't happen as often as dropping a set of keys desk.
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Again it's impossible to walk away and leave your keys in a door because you aren't tethered to
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the door. So I really recommend these for people who have a who are, shall we say, key
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impaired such as myself. I have a card reader in there right at the moment it's carrying an 8 gigabyte
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card but it's handy to have in case I need to help someone transfer photos from their camera
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or whatever. People forget that the camera storage isn't a simple USB or just jamming to
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any computer in your close box. I have a Bluetooth toggle. I find that very helpful because if I
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reach to upload or download something from my phone or my tablet then I don't happen to have all
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the cables with me. I can slap in the Bluetooth toggle, establish a connection and then go ahead
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and transfer that way. I've done it a fair bit. It saves me from having to go all the way back home
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and get something more times than I carry with me. I really recommend the little toggle
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or dirt cheap and it just lives there in my bag. It's a no problem at all.
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I do also keep a simple paper notebook in there. I like to get the ones with a spiral bindings
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so they lay flat and a plastic cover that way they don't get messed up in the rain as much.
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I find that sometimes you just can't type on a touch screen. You have nowhere to set up your little
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Bluetooth keyboard. You're stuck. It's handy to have a spiral notebook with a pen jam down in
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the spiral. Then that way if something hits you you remember something or you're a fear you're
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going to forget something. You have a place to put it no matter where you are unless of course
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you're in the dead dark. Yes, I do have a flashlight. It's a little bit bigger than my thumb. It's
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an LED flashlight and I can use that if and deed it is dead dark. Of course the phone will give
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a fair amount of light as well the tablet screen but if you're out in the middle of nowhere you really
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don't want to run your battery down unless you absolutely have to. So that's it that's my bag.
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Almost all of it the bags that I have it the same as I say and that helps me with organization
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so when I'm looking for something in a hurry I can find it. Oh gee and one more thing in the front
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bottle. A real life saver. So that's what's in my bag. I hope you will do your own podcast so I
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can find out what's in your bag. These podcasts I find are a lot of fun to listen to.
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Thanks for listening to mine.
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