{"id":36646,"date":"2020-07-22T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36646"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:45:38","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-kevin-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-kevin-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Kevin Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Kelly<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first 7 years. His most recent book is The Inevitable, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His other books include the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, the classic Out of Control, and his summary theory of technology in What Technology Wants.\u00a0From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Catalogs. He co-founded the Hackers\u2019 Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He also founded the popular\u00a0Cool Tools website<\/a>\u00a0in 2003.<\/p>\n

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About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is my day hiking bag.\u00a0<\/strong>An ancient 20-year old JanSport bag with essentially 3 big pockets. I use it for day hikes. In addition to the items shown here, I\u2019ll also carry some snacks and water. This is the closest\u00a0current model JanSport bag<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Homemade, super light-weight plant press<\/strong>\u00a0for preserving plants and flowers from my hikes. Made from scrap pieces of foam core boards. I glued two layers for each side with strips of wood to corner the velcro straps. Inside are sheets of\u00a0\u201ccouch\u201d blotter paper<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to dry the plants.<\/p>\n

A single AA battery LED light<\/strong>\u00a0hangs inside the JanSport bag. Very light weight, but extremely bright and long lasting. To be used when darkness comes or to inspect underbrush. The one shown is no longer made.\u00a0This one is near equivalent<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tiny binoculars<\/strong>. I only use these occasionally, so I don\u2019t want to carry the full weight of real birding binocs. At 8 x 21 magnification they are low powered, and sometimes called opera glasses. These inexpensive ones are helpful for short glimpses. Since they are very compact and very cheap, I don\u2019t mind packing them. The ones I have are no longer made\u00a0so this is an equivalent<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0lightest, smallest portable camp chair<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0I could find. This fits in my daypack and unpacks into a tripod stool which lets me sit almost anywhere. While it is very compact, the TriLite Stool is not super comfortable, and not made for relaxing. It\u2019s also tipsy, and easy to tip over in. But I use it only for short rests and for picnicking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in my bag? issue #59<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36648,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646\/revisions\/36648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}