{"id":2995,"date":"2013-04-27T04:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T04:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2013-04-27T04:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T04:07:54","slug":"what-do-you-carry-in-your-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/what-do-you-carry-in-your-backpack\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you carry in your backpack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"my<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m a software developer and this is everything I was carrying in my backpack today April 26th 2013 (from the top, left to right)<\/p>\n

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  1. A case for SD cards.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Raspbery PI<\/a> I’m toying with at the moment.<\/li>\n
  3. A roll of #punsr stickers<\/li>\n
  4. US Passport, you never know when you get a crazy invitation (or emergency) to fly out.<\/li>\n
  5. Emergency Icebreaker underwear<\/a>, you never know if your luggage might get lost, you can at least take a shower and have a fresh pair.<\/li>\n
  6. Checkbooks, electronic bank keys.<\/li>\n
  7. Snes-like USB gamepad<\/a> (for the Raspberry PI video game console project<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  8. pens<\/li>\n
  9. Microsoft USB wired optic mouse<\/a>, still my favorite, never worry about not having batteries for it.<\/li>\n
  10. Punsr<\/a> business cards, Tech Consulting business cards.<\/li>\n
  11. Amazon Kindle Fire HD<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. iPad<\/li>\n
  13. Beats Pro headphones<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. toothpicks, so you never have to suffer with food between your teeth for hours.<\/li>\n
  15. coins (I try to not have coins, I keep them in the car for parking meters)<\/li>\n
  16. Nexus 4<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Galaxy SII<\/li>\n
  18. USB power adapters<\/li>\n
  19. WD My Passport 2TB<\/a> backup drive (I keep another at home attached to my monitor for automatic backups)<\/li>\n
  20. Macbook PRO Power adapter<\/li>\n
  21. European power converters<\/li>\n
  22. Ethernet cable for the raspberry pi and because you never know when you might need it.<\/li>\n
  23. prescription sunglasses, needed in sunny florida.<\/li>\n
  24. MacBook PRO 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB ram, 500GB SSD<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m a software developer and this is everything I was carrying in my backpack today April 26th 2013 (from the top, left to right) A case for SD cards. Raspbery PI I’m toying with at the moment. A roll of #punsr stickers US Passport, you never know when you get a crazy invitation (or emergency) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,68],"tags":[1255,469,1254,1257,1256],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife","category-random-stuff","tag-backpack","tag-geek","tag-geeklife-2","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-office"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-Mj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2487,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/do-not-put-a-kindle-on-a-backpack-together-with-a-laptop-and-an-slr-camera\/","url_meta":{"origin":2995,"position":0},"title":"Do not put a Kindle on a Backpack together with a laptop and an SLR Camera \/ Amazon Support Rocks!","author":"gubatron","date":"October 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Do not put a Kindle on a Backpack together with a laptop and an SLR Camera == Update (October 19th 2011): +Colin Noller and Amazon support Rock! 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