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Episode: 1519
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Title: HPR1519: What's in My Bag
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1519/hpr1519.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 04:34:34
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Do.
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All right?
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Okay.
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What's good, Acro Public Radio? This is Taj, and I wanted to come at you guys with
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an episode about what's in my bag. I know a couple of the people have done these episodes,
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and I found them really interesting, so I thought I'd go ahead and contribute one since
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we're kind of low on episodes. I have several bags, and they're all tailored to different
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applications. So the bag that I'm going to go through today is my normal bag that I carry
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pretty much every day with me. So I guess we can start with the bag itself. I'm not really sure
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what the model is. I have to look it up when I do the show notes. The bag that I carry is a
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messenger style bag from hazard4.com. It's a black bag, and it actually has Molly attachments on it.
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And I know that there have been a couple episodes about Molly attachments on Acro Public Radio.
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They're fantastic, and if you can find a bag that uses them, you should take advantage of it,
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because it takes any bag that you have and makes it completely multifunctional. So just on the
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outside of the bag here. On one side, I've got a drink carrier. It's a Molly attachment that goes
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on the outside. It's black. It's from a company called 511, and they make a lot of tactical gear,
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and this just straps on to the side of my bag. And inside of it, I constantly have a 32 ounce
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Nalgene bottle. It's kind of a joke with everybody around me that I'd never go anywhere without
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my water bottle. I drink a lot of water, so I constantly have that on me. On the other side,
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I have another Molly pouch. I'm not sure who makes this one. It's black like the bag as well.
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And inside of it, I keep my amateur radio. I'm a ham radio operator, and I keep my handy
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talking in my bag. I don't hardly ever use it, but I just kind of want to keep it there in case
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I do decide to use it. And so the radio itself is a Wotion. It's a KGUV2D for all the ham
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radio heads out there, because I know everybody likes to compare their gear. So that's what I'm
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rocking on a daily basis. So I guess without further ado, let's dig into this thing and see what we've
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got. It is a fairly large bag, and I carry everything all the time. So on the front, it's got a really
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big, just front pouch. It has Molly stripes on the front of it, and it has a map case on the inside
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of that front pouch. And then it has a bunch of little pockets inside. So the first thing I've got in
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here is I have a Mulskin notebook that I keep just to take notes in. It's kind of a reporter style,
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and it has grid paper. I love grid paper. Almost everything I do. I do a grid paper. So there's that.
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I have a couple flash drives that I keep in here. One is a portable apps installation that I use
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at work since most of the computers at work are PCs, and I want to use my software. So I bring that.
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And then the other one is a boot disk of Tails OS. And that's just in case I'm somewhere where I don't
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trust the computer or if I'm in a coffee shop or something where I don't trust the internet itself
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there. I will boot into that just to kind of keep myself safe. It's probably overkill, but I just
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just something to do. Let's see what else we get in here. I also have my little Sansa Clipsit
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that I have that I put rock box on. We probably a couple months ago we talked about it on Linux load
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cast about taking one of these and putting a rock box on it. And so I went and bought one. And actually
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I've used it a ton. It's great because I usually listen to music and podcasts and audio books on my
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phone, but that gets kind of cumbersome. And this thing, this is so tiny and so cheap. If I
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destroy it, I'm not going to feel bad about it. So if I'm mowing the grass and I drop it and run
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over it, it's it's not going to be a terrible loss. But I keep that in my bag just in case.
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I have a multi tool. That's a fairly good size one. It doesn't have a brand name on it.
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It's not a brand name weatherman, but it is. It does have pretty much all the tools that I need on
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a daily basis. I'm working at a school and being a tech coordinator at my school. I have to fix
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projectors and computers and run cables and cut things all the time so that's nice to have whenever I
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need it. I have a ton of Pilot G2 pins and different colors. That's my favorite writing utensil.
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I'd like to have the different colors so I can grade or when I take notes, I like to use different
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colors just to kind of have my own little system than I use. I have a tied pin because I'm sloppy
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and I get things all over myself all the time and so having it is nice so I don't ruin my close
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on a daily basis. I have a couple external batteries for my phone. I have a Galaxy S4 Android phone
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and I have a wall charger and a couple batteries for that. Just in case I need to charge it during
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the day. I go through batteries a lot. I use it to tether to get around things a lot of the time
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and so that will run down your battery. Behind that front pocket and behind that organizer,
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there is a whole other pocket so we'll go in here and really the only thing I keep in there
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and this is hit or miss. It's not always in there. I have a Kindle Touch that I carry around. I
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use it a lot for not only for reading but I do a lot of research and so having that with me,
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I can go through research pretty quick whenever I have a spare minute. I've always had problems reading
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even as a kid. It took me a long time to read things and I found that if I read it on a screen,
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I can get through it much much faster. So I usually, if I have paper documentation, I will scan it in
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and make an ebook of it and then go through it. I just, for me, that's the process that works.
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So that's the front pockets. Go ahead and zip that back up and this thing has way more pockets
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than I could ever ever imagine using. Okay, so then we have a big center pocket here and it has
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Molly attachments all across the back as well. It has a front pocket that I don't really have
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anything inside the center pocket. It has a front pocket and then on the side, it has two
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pockets that run along the side walls. Inside one of them, I keep my, I hate touch pads so I keep
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a wireless mouse in there and I keep the power brick from my laptop. I usually have a pad of
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paper in here, just regular notebook paper. Kids in my school always need paper and so I just
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like to be able to reach in my bag and grab some and go with it. And then on the other side,
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I have this pouch and this pouch is kind of the bag of holding. It has everything in it.
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I've got spare headphones. I have a little external power brick that's USB that will charge
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pretty much anything you plug into it, which is nice. It'll fill about half a phone.
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I have a four port USB hub that we'll plug in. I have a wall work that has USB on it just in case
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every kind of adapter and cable you could ever imagine needing some extra smaller flash drive,
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some SD cards and SD card reader and the USB to many USB on the go adapter for my phone.
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Just random assortment of things. Quarter inch jacks for audio equipment, a USB extension.
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Pretty much my idea with this little pouch is that I should be able to connect anything at any
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time to anything else and it has very rarely ever failed me. Usually when I switch out bags,
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that's one of the first things that goes into the new bag is that little pouch because it's
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kind of my life saver. And then the back of the bag is a laptop case. It's very heavily padded
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and it's got some nice like clothing inside of it to keep everything nice and from getting scratched
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up. Most days I carry my laptop. I have a Lenovo idea pad. It's a Y580. It's a 15 inch laptop so
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it's pretty hefty. I really enjoy it. I think it's the best computer I've ever owned. It did take
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a little bit to get Linux to work on it. I run my jar on it and pretty much all the time.
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I do have a Windows partition because I do have to do some things for work and I wish I could
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get rid of it but some of the software will not run in wine. If I'm going with that, that's all
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I will take. If I want to go light with this bag, I will leave the laptop and the power brick at
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home and I have a Android tablet. I have a transformer. It's a TF101. It was the first generation
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of transformer tablets and I will carry that with it. It has a keyboard dock with it and so it will
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do a lot of laptop things and I can use it to get into my desktop computer at home and do work if I
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need to. It's a little clued you doing it that way so a lot of times I will not do that unless I
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feel like I just really need to have a light bag day. If I know I'm going somewhere and a lot of
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times if that's the case I'm probably going to grab a different bag in this bag in general.
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Well that's about it for what's in this bag. I may go if I switch up something or have another bag
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that I think is interesting. I may do another episode about that but for today that is all
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Hacker Public Radio needs you to make new episodes because we are running low dangerously low
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so whatever you're doing, drop it and go make an episode. It doesn't take that long. I did this
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in probably 10 minutes of my time so no matter what you think, what you know is interesting so
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please share it with the community. Thanks. Peace.
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