{"id":675,"date":"2012-01-03T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-01-03T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:57:15","slug":"my-bag-of-holding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/my-bag-of-holding\/","title":{"rendered":"my bag of holding"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, Rands in Repose had a great post about a bag of holding<\/a>:\u00a0the necessities of his laptop bag. \u00a0This post resonates for me strongly, since I feel like I’m always in search of a great bag.<\/p>\n

Like Rands, I settled on two bags. \u00a0I have my everyday get-to-work bag, which is currently an Eco Portile Grande<\/a> by Zaum<\/a>. \u00a0I love that it’s cherry red, since I’m bored with plain black bags. \u00a0It’s a messenger bag, and it’s pretty minimal. \u00a0It has room for my laptop, iPad, iPhone, a small bag of cables, my wallet, and not much else. \u00a0This is perfect for just getting back and forth to the office: it’s light, it’s comfortable to carry, and it holds the necessities.<\/p>\n

However, it doesn’t work as a travel bag because it doesn’t zip closed, so I’m not comfortable just stuffing it under a seat or in the overhead. \u00a0Things will fall out, and I’ll either lose something or have to dig around for that pen that fell out. \u00a0It takes a few too many motions to get my laptop out of the bag for security screening. \u00a0Also, if I pick up anything, it probably won’t fit very well into my messenger bag. \u00a0Overall, it’s just not a good bag when I’m travelling.<\/p>\n

My travel bag is a backpack. \u00a0It’s currently the VMworld 2011 backpack, which is quite well-made for conference swag. \u00a0I settled on a backpack for travelling because it makes getting around an airport a lot easier. \u00a0It’s also got the right number of pockets, and in the right locations, which is necessary for finding that one thing (wallet, phone, pen, whatever) very quickly. \u00a0It’s big enough to hold a lot, even a day or two of clothing, but still be carry-on size and still fit under my seat. \u00a0I also like that it’s VMware-branded, since it gives me an extra little boost of credibility when I’m conducting research. \u00a0If I’m talking to someone who was at VMworld (or who wanted to go but couldn’t), my backpack starts off the conversation, which functions as an icebreaker.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t a daily bag. \u00a0It’s so big that it’s overkill for my daily needs (which is mostly just iPad+iPhone+wallet), and I don’t need all of that space. \u00a0Plus, I have to admit that\u00a0I like that my daily bag is more stylish than the VMworld backpack. \u00a0The VMworld backpack wins lots of points on practicality, but it’s not winning any style awards.<\/p>\n

So: two bags, each for their own purpose. \u00a0I can switch between them at a moment’s notice, which makes life that much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, Rands in Repose had a great post about a bag of holding:\u00a0the necessities of his laptop bag. \u00a0This post resonates for me strongly, since I feel like I’m always in search of a great bag. Like Rands, I settled on two bags. \u00a0I have my everyday get-to-work bag, which is currently … Continue reading my bag of holding<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nadyne","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}