Out of boredom comes memedom

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While clearing out my work bag, I thought I'd try to start a meme. I call it "The contents of my work bag" - imaginative, eh?

My amazing 12 (at last count)-pocketed bottomless cycle pannier/satchel/laptop bag (Altura Skye Workstation - a fantastic pannier, incidentally) contains, when it has been cleared of crap, such essentials as:

The geeky

• 1 Powerbook G4 15", Aluminium version, first revision
  
• 1 power supply and 1 spare battery for above
  
• 2 little plastic domes that screw to the base of the Powerbook to raise the back up
  
• 3 DVI->VGA adaptors - hmm, perhaps a little excessive
  
• 1 compactflash->PCMCIA adaptor
  
• 1 S-video->RCA adaptor
  
• 1 pair Apple headphones
  
• 1 Victorinox Cybertool
  
• 1 Leatherman Micra
  
• 1 256MB USB flash drive
  
• 1 Q-Be teeny-tiny cube-shaped MP3 player.
  
• 1 retractable Palm charger/hotsync cable from Ziplinq
  
• 1 USB extension cable (yes yes, USB spec, for those who want to pedant)
  
• 1 32MB flash drive, from before they were ubiquitous, containing among other things the genome for Drosophila Melanogaster
  
• 1 Western Digital Passport 80GB portable USB hard drive
  
• 1 US->UK telephone adaptor
  
• 1 Palm Tungsten T PDA
  
• (Occasionally) 1 Apple Newton 2000 PDA
  

The slightly less geeky

• 1 Bic 4-colour biro
  
• 2 packs Wrigley's Extra gum, 2 flavours
  
• 5 testing Photonhunter business cards
  
• 1 permanent marker for CDs etc
  
• 1 copy of Insanely Great - The life and times of Macintosh, the computer that changed everything, by Steven Levy
  
• 1 blank Oxford postcard, for emergencies
  
• 1 chequebook
  
• 1 wooly hat
  
• 2 ziplock bags
  
• 1 pair latex gloves (for impromptu bike maintenance, before you ask)
  
• 1 Walkers freebie pedometer (not sure what that's doing in a cycle bag
  
• 1 pad small (~1"*1.5") Postit notes, 1 pad medium (3"*6") Postit notes
  
• 1 Lincoln College tie, for emergencies
  

There, wasn't that exciting?


I realised yesterday why a sudden braking manoeuvre on my bike resulted in an exciting 45-degree back-wheel-in-air stop - I had become too used to having a bag full of several kilos of crap on the back, weighing it down. :-)