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    "title": "Is that a PDA in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/06/23/is-that-a-pda-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-happy-to-see-me/",
    "datePublished": "2005-06-23",
    "dateModified": "2005-06-23",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Merlin at 43Folders links to a great post by Robert Daeley. [here] This post is extremely relevant to me, as I just spent 9 hours lugging my laptop backpack (still…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
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# Is that a PDA in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?

Merlin at 43Folders

[links](http://www.43folders.com/2005/06/robert_daeley_d.html)

to a great post by Robert Daeley. [

[here](http://www.celsius1414.com/zen_pockets/)

]
This post is extremely relevant to me, as I just spent 9 hours lugging my laptop backpack (still waiting for my

[Waterfield Cargo](http://www.sfbags.com/products/cargo/cargo.htm)

bag to arrive from a dedicated reader -- Large please) around SeaTac, Denver International and Logan.
It would have been even worse if I had been allowed to go to Europe this Sunday...but I digress.
What is in there?
Well, the contents are pretty much detailed

[here](http://www.newestindustry.org/index.php/2005/06/16/what_s_in_my_bag)

. Now, I can take out the European adapters -- need for those went way down all of a sudden. But, in a nutshell, my bag is substantially cleaner now than it has been in years.
The

[Moleskine Accordian Folder](http://www.moleskineus.com/largememo.html)

definitely helps, as I have a place to store all of my important documents, receipts and pieces of paper.
And the

[MEC](http://www.mec.ca/)

*backpack buddy*

helps keep the wires and cables and other odds and ends from rattling around.
But I still carry way too much. The 9 pound Inspiron doesn't help.
In my pockets, bare minimum, and always in the front pockets. A business card holder thing to hold the cards I need, and my car keys in one pocket; my very light Samsung R225M in the other.
Still, there is too much crap in our lives. Too much in mine.
If only I could capture it all and put it in my inbox...

 
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