I’m trying find a piece of equipment I’ve lost which led me to clean out my old reporter backpack/hurricane go bag. I didn’t find what I’m looking for, but I did discover my own journalism time machine. Thread:
Found an old air card that I, uh, forgot to turn in 😬. Fortunately Verizon discontinued it so the TBT ain’t been paying the bill all this time. #ProTip reporters: Never give back your aircard. Make them pry it from your cold, dead fingers. Those pens still work tho!
Damn it’s my old VuPoint Magic Wand portable scanner. This bad boy could scan one page in *checks notes* five whole minutes! They still sell these, but you know what they say: Once you take a photo of a document on your smartphone and convert it to PDF you don’t go back.
Anyone want a Quaker Oats power-bar snack thingee from *checks notes* 2009?
I’m a total pack nerd. Covered court with this @SwissArmy Backpack after my @tenbabags Classic P415 Briefcase shoulder bag got too beat up (also hell on my back; still have it though.) I use a @goincase City Backpack now. But Tenba has this sweet new DNA Messenger bag ...
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