 little different. I have always enjoyed the what's in my bag, what's in what tech do you carry, what gear do you carry, and as a scientist maybe I have a unique angle. Maybe you're wondering what kind of gear does an astronomer carry in their bag every day. Now there's a whole genre of videos on YouTube about what's in my bag and what kind of gear do you carry. I'm not sure I'm going to do it total justice but I'll give you an honest census of what's in my bag and my review of some of the gear that I carry. This is literally my bag as I brought it to work today with everything except for the camera kit which of course right except for the the camera which is filming. This is what we call a mirror in 2018 and right so that's the camera. Okay so right off the bat I'm carrying a new iPhone 8 with a scratch in the screen and a bunch of lint in the charging port probably from my pocket. It's fine you know it's a phone. All right my actual backpack currently is a 10 buck 2 bag. I carried around a 10 buck 2 shoulder bag for a long time and I really liked it. I like the shoulder bag but carrying a bag on one shoulder with a lot of gear in it makes my back hurt. I guess I'm old. I need a backpack so that my back doesn't hurt on long trips. Okay gotta have a water bottle and I put a sticker on it so that you know it belongs here at Dirac here at UW. In the tiny little front pouch all I have in here is just a USB drive a thumb drive. I can't say that I'm a huge fan of the USB-C ports because all my stuff is still USB but this drive which I got on Amazon and I'll put a link to I think it's really cool both USB-C and traditional USB on it so and it has some good fidget spinner qualities and in this main pouch in the front I keep my work keys I keep my work and my home keys separate you know just to like physically separate my work and my home life I also keep my work and my home keys separate. In the front big pocket I'll see I got some pens I'm super picky about my pens and the brand that I've been using for a long time is the Zebra F301s. Right now I have two blue ones in here usually I carry a blue and a black. Okay I keep a keep a thing of business cards the pen for my iPad now this this is the old pen I think they released a new one the the little clip that I have on here is actually for a space pen this actually fits perfectly it's super nice to have a clip so this thing doesn't fall out of your pocket as easily. Finger nail clippers because you know personal grooming and also it's a tool you can like break through tape and sometimes a nice type of sharp thing and this is a toy from when my kid was an infant and I keep it you know like for sentimental reasons here is a very short iPhone cord this is good because I'm also like discovering where everything is in my bag. I keep two pairs of headphones with me I keep the regular iPhone headphones because they just fit my ears really well I know not everybody likes them and then I've got a pair of the wireless the cheap wireless Beats headphones this is a terrible sounding pair of headphones my review of these I think these sound 100% better. For comparison in my office I use some Sony studio headphones these are the mdr v6's that I got I think you can get them on sale on amazon for under 100 bucks usually these things sound awesome okay the last thing it's in this front pocket right now today I've got my this is my external hard drive that all my video editing stuff has been going on lately and the last thing in here is a cable pouch right now I've got I've got iPad and iPhone cables in here and then I've got this great very cheap HDMI VGA DVI USB-C as an astronomer I'm constantly giving talks and nobody has the right dongle okay in the first main pocket there's not too much in here the camera my tripod my gorilla pod my camera and my microphone usually gets shoved in here so right now I've got another cable pouch I got this one free at the double s meeting this last year you can go check out my double s vlogs where I was picking up free swag this is the very this is all I carry the camera with the one lens the gorilla pod and the microphone I carry an ND filter a 77 millimeter neutral density filter two extra batteries for the camera I keep my card reader which I also have has a USB C to USB adapter which I bought this is like 10 bucks on Amazon one random wipe that I can wipe my screen or my lens with and one double a battery which is the backup battery for my microphone so I really value lightweight compact and so I try to keep my camera gear to one lens one camera set up and very little accessories needed to function and the other thing I have in this first big pocket is my iPad this is the 10 inch iPad pro this thing is shockingly useful and here's why you can take notes on it which I do you can annotate PDFs and documents which I do a ton of my kid can watch movies when we're flying or traveling which is worth its weight in gold and most importantly I cannot program on this like I can open up Slack I can open an email I mean I guess there are like apps that I could download that are like code editors but I have this as bare bones as possible so that I can just use this to write even though it's not quite a full-size keyboard this little keyboard is big enough and has good enough feel that I think this actually would be a really functional computer and if I was in college today I might just get this if I just restrict just restrict myself to this environment of working on this machine this little machine I can be more productive because I can do less and less is more when it comes to productivity and then the last pocket on my bag is my laptop I used to never put stickers on my laptop this is the first-generation 13 inch MacBook pro with touch bar this is far in a way the absolute worst Apple computer that I have ever purchased it has been more unreliable and buggy than any other Apple desktop or portable computer it's the first generation of this model line and I came off of the 13 inch MacBook Air as my main travel laptop and that thing's in it's like hundredth generation it's still going in fact I gave it to a student recently now she's using it for her research project that's a great computer this thing I will retire the minute that the warranty expires that's my honest review I mean like the keyboard the keys are they get stuck really easily the touch bar is like I don't know what I don't know I don't know I I don't know what to think about the touch bar the battery life is terrible I like the big pad the big trackpad is nice I love touch ID I think this is a great idea the display is beautiful and that's really it but I don't care much of my bag I generally don't carry a laptop charger I bought an extra one so I have one sitting on my desk in my office and I have one at home pretty compact bag I can shove it under any seat in an airplane as long as it's not too full I've even done some like overnight one night trips in just this bag besides a water bottle sometimes instead I'll carry my Zojirushi coffee mug for me portability is key compactness lightweight and simplicity is key the more time I spend thinking about my gear like the less I get done I'm very easily distracted so I need things to be like clean and simple and reliable so there you go that is what's in my bag that is how a professional astronomer does science thanks for watching