Comments on: What’s in Your Duffel Bag?

By: dave

dave — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:26:48 +0000

I’m with you, brother. It feels ridiculous to carry all that crap, and then you need something that you thought about bringing and you ain’t got it. That happened to me all the time during the days of the live radio remotes at Dragon*Con. I’d be trying to hook up something, and would need the one adapter I didn’t bring.

By: Ken Kennedy

Ken Kennedy — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:32:26 +0000

LOL…note that the funny thing is that both of us can look at that list, and think “ok…way less than half of that. Not too bad at all for a normal day.”

You should see me at DragonCon. All that sorta crap, and board games to boot. When I’m full-on (same thing, duffel and backpack), it’s da bomb.

Hey. You never know what you’re gonna need…

By: dave

dave — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:56:46 +0000

Thanks Ken, same to you. Bear in mind that this was specific to the convention. I’d be carrying way less than half of this on an ordinary type day. Being in an interview situation is what adds a lot of the necessary gear.

By: Ken Kennedy

Ken Kennedy — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:18:30 +0000

Dang Dave…anyone who carries more widget-y goodness than I do is ok in my book! Go-go Gadgetman! Happy Thanksgiving!

By: dave

dave — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:42:39 +0000

Dom, I missed answering your OS questions. I’m running 10.3.9 on my iBook, never bothered to upgrade to Tiger. The work laptop is on Ubuntu 6.0.6. The old Thinkpad at home I had installed Ubuntu on, and I did the new distribution upgrade to 6.10 and it seemed to work just fine. In situations where I’m worried the iBook might get stolen or broken, then the Thinkpad is what I’d use. It’s 6 years old and that this point is essentially disposable.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:32:10 +0000

Dorothy, thanks to you for your interest and kindness. I think I’m set on gadgets for the indefinite future. I’m working on going ever lower tech and getting the use out of the tools I have. Happy holidays right back at you!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:02:38 +0000

Happy Holidays dave – may you get more gadgets and gizmos to add to your duffel bags.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:39:13 +0000

Dom, it might be on the high end of stuff but it works for me. I do have a tacklebox that I use for the audio bits, but I’ve decided to stop carrying it on planes. It is just big and bulky enough to be a pain in the ass. For this, I opted not to bring all the various adapters since I have only once device to hook to. Keeping it all organized and accessible while on the road is an ongoing challenge.

As for the iBook – the standard is not if what else is available is better but if what I have isn’t meeting my needs. As long as it is, I’m not in a hurry to upgrade.

By: Dom Barnes

Dom Barnes — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:44:22 +0000

Wow Dave. A name check and a whole post. Wasn’t expecting that. Cheers for that anyway. Was very interesting.
I sometimes think I’m stupid for carrying around some of the stuff I do, usb thumb drives, usb charger for phone, pda sync cable, so its reassuring to know others do too.

Its cool you’re still using an iBook after so long. I always worry about my Powerbook getting damaged when travelling so I’m looking for a dirt cheap iBook to get.
Are you running Mac OS on that or did you put a linux distro on instead. I guess you’re still running ubuntu on your work laptop or have you tried Fedora Core 5 or 6 again?
You could do with some sort of plastic compartmented storage thingy for all your cables.
I saw a cool idea on Flickr of using a plastic door shoe rack for storing all this guys cables and gagdets.