What's in Your Gadget Bag, Cory?

Cory Doctorow has taken a two-second break from his road warrior ways to pen this description of the crud he lugs around. Read it and weep, wanna-bes.

I always want a girl to ask..

[Anonymous Coward]

"Is that a gadet in your pocket, or are u just happy to see me?"

hahaha

[geekoid]

what a geek....oh wait.

What should be in it...

[ackthpt]

An Electronic Thumb

The Guide

Last, but not least, a towel

One thing's missing...

[RufusFish]

Apparently his kit doesn't contain a host capable of withstanding the first 5 minutes of /.'ing. Still loading.

server

[CanSpice]

Hope he's got a spare webserver in that bag because they're going to need a new one.

Re:CmdrTaco

[mrpuffypants]

I predict that there will be at least two of everything in the bag, and taco won't realize until he actually sees them right next to each other or somebody says "Hey! You've got two PowerBooks! Ha! Dupe!"

Missing!

[Faust7]

I didn't see "a girlfriend" in that list...

Re:CmdrTaco

[Anonymous Coward]

It looks like they are finding out just how 'unpopular' slashdot is riiight now

Correction - it would be

[geekoid]

"Hey! Youve got too PowerBoocks! Ha! Dupe!"

Re:One thing's missing...

[anethema]

I guess this is the last time HE will call slashdot unpopular. [gizmodo.com]

"60 Canadian pesos"

[Anonymous Coward]

"60 Canadian pesos"

That's good shit.. We can insult both of our neighbors in one shot.

Appearently...

[grasshoppa]

...one of the things he does NOT carry around is bandwidth.

Site Slashdoted

Re:Missing!

[avkillick]

IIRC, Cory "bats for the other team"

Re:CmdrTaco

[Pieroxy]

Cory Doctorow has taken a two-second break

Maybe he should have taken a 4-seconds break. He could then have used the two extra seconds to get a decent hosting service.

Re:First post!

[Anonymous Coward]

Boy do I suck at this.

Re:CmdrTaco

[BrynM]

They say it hasnt really taken off yet. I would say thats pretty untrue considering there is an effect named after them of a site beeing taken down by a sheer number of click-throughs.

Trust me, they know it now. The server is in flames. Just imagine when /. really gets popular.

Re:I always want a girl to ask..

[Kenja]

"Is that a gadet in your pocket, or are u just happy to see me?"

Can't it be both?

My acustic coupler works just fine...

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Look. My acustic coupler works just fine, as well as the day I stole it from the computer center at school. Why should I upgrade? Life is good.

Re:i'm a karma whore - for when it's ./ed

[blackmonday]

Hey, look! Anonymous coward Karma Whoring! How long before he gets to moderate? Soon, I hope, because I see him posting all the time.

Re:I challenge you to a gear fight

[Saint Stephen]

(buy a toothbrush when you're there).

tisk tisk tisk. safe sex is the way to go.

[ocularDeathRay]

This guy needs to check his priorities. He has all that crap with him just in case... but what if he gets laid?


Lets face it... nerds dont get that many chances... so we should all cary condoms at all times. It would be terrible to have the chance of a lifetime and not be prepared. They are much cheaper than child support and antibiotics.

Re:Stuff I always carry

[ndpatel]

An extra set of headphones in case an impromptu lan party were to spring up.

man, your life is gonna suck when college is over.

Re:Missing!

[mph]

I didn't see "a girlfriend" in that list...

If your girlfriend's in a bag, it's time to upgrade. Next time, don't pick one out while wearing beer goggles.

Swedish penis pump

[Anonymous Coward]

If you had asked him before he got all those emails about herbal viagra: Swedish penis pump- that's in my bag baby, by Cory Doctorow

Only two things needed...

[edwardd]

You only need two things. Duct tape and WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, use the duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use the WD-40.

Re:tisk tisk tisk. safe sex is the way to go.

[IO ERROR]

Lets face it... nerds dont get that many chances... so we should all cary condoms at all times. It would be terrible to have the chance of a lifetime and not be prepared. They are much cheaper than child support and antibiotics.

I used to keep condoms with me at all times, but then they started expiring from disuse... I recently bought another package of them, but haven't had the opportunity to use a single one of them...

Re:I carry wallet and keys. That's it.

[Anonymous Coward]

yes.

Hate is in my bag

[Tony]

All right. I know I am not the only one here who thinks this: I'm so tired of the phrase "Road Warrior." I like and respect Cory Doctorow, but he is not a "Road Warrior." Neither are those wanna-be geeks who go out to sell technology instead of do technology.

Until I see some souped-up buggies with frickin' lasers, I don't want to hear about road warriors. I hate that phrase more than I hate iSomething, or eOtherthing. Hell, I even hate it more than I hate "My Foo." All that was clever the first time, cold pancakes with no syrup the second time, and absolutely grating the third time.

Frickin' lasers. Until then, zip it.

Re:Only two things needed...

[slorge]

I always heard it this way.

Duct tape and a hammer. If it doesn't move...smash it. If it moves, duct tape it in place and smash it.

hmmmmm, I may have a new sig.

Re:why should i weep?

[khallow]

Your civilization doesn't have rackmounted servers and plasma TVs in your travel bags? How primitive!

Wanna-bes? I think not!

[Eosha]

I've got more than that in my left hip pocket alone!

Of course, the 15" Powerbook chafes a bit, but...

What's in Your Gadget Bag, Gline?

[The Gline]

A computer. ...what, you were expecting a whole bevy of singing and tapdancing gerbils?

Re:What should be in it...

[phallux]

You forgot:

• A thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is
• A buffered analgesic
• Pocket fluff
• No tea

Re:Missing!

[Anonymous Coward]

Phew. Well that explains the horrible, horrible manpurse [bohemianbag.com] he carries. I don't believe the claim that "Czech plumbers" carry this thing around, but I do believe people who carry one enjoy handling other people's pipes.

Re:tisk tisk tisk. safe sex is the way to go.

[dlelash]

Really, is there anything more depressing than an expired condom? Umm... what I mean is, I imagine it must be awful to discover one of those!

Re:Missing!

[MobileC]

He's Canadian?

Re:A reality check

[zymurgyboy]

I carry a lot of the same sort of crap, but what's in the laptop is absolutely who I am, unfossilized. The rest of the crap, and the laptop itself are truly commercial crap that help me move what matters around town, into and out of the laptop(s).

Maybe I'll throw a worry stone in there.

Should See A Guitarist/Geeks' Bag..

[BlueStrat]

because no matter which crowd I'm in front of when I start pawing around and pulling stuff out, it almost never fails to produce a "WTF is THAT!?!?" from whichever crowd, geek or musician, I happen to be around at the moment :-D. (Sadly, haven't ran across any fellow-geek, linux-using blues players around my area, hope I'm not _that_ rare a breed :-/ )

Pfft. so what.......

[1iar_parad0x]

Reporter: So, Mr. Einstein, what's in your gadget bag?

Einstein: Gad-get who?

Reporter: Gadget bag?

Einstein: Oh, a clickitty sack! No, I don't carry those. I used to have a compass, but I ruined that with the magnet.....I also used to have a motorcycle, but my licence got revoked for driving too fast. I explained to the officer that I was going under the speed limit, but he didn't understand....

Reporter: I see, how fast where you going?

Einstein: c

Reporter: see what?

Einstein: No, 299,792,458 m / s

Reporter: Could you convert that into miles per hour?

Einstein: No.

Reporter: Yeah, I was never good at math either. So, what gadgets... err I mean clickitty things do you carry around?

Einstein: Oh, just a pencil and paper.

Reporter: How about a watch?

Einstein: Ah, I find it irrelevent.

Reporter: I see. That's not too impressive. I hear even Von Neumann carries around a cell phone.

Einstein: Look, Johnny and I never got along... I don't mean to bad mouth the guy, but you think he'd invented a new fundamental law of physics or something. Oh and Godel tried to get me one of those pre-paid things... I never use it. I told him, I don't even wear socks, and when I do where socks they don't match. Oh, and I don't tie my shoe laces either. Mrs. Godel bought me some velcro shoes. They're nice.