Meta, Unbagging: Joshua Topolsky
By Engadget staff 
posted August 7th 2009 4:54PM
posted August 7th 2009 4:54PM
Unbagging is a new feature inspired by one of our favorite Flickr groups: what's in your bag? The premise is simple -- empty out your bag, arrange what's inside, and snap a photo. Engadget will be taking a look inside the bags of some of the people we know and love in the tech world, combining our two favorite pastimes of gadgetry and voyeurism. Want to be included? Send an email to unbagging [at] engadget [dot] com with your submissions!
Who better to kick off Unbagging with, right? In the picture above you'll note Josh's Leatherman, dual EV-DO cards, heart pills, vast array of phones (all active, mind you), and totally awesome Ray-Ban Wayfarer IIs. Before you ask: yes, he does carry all this stuff around. Take a look at the full rundown of assets after the break.
In the bag:
In the bag:
- Steven Harrington sleeve
- Jack Spade laptop bag
- Wayfarer II sunglasses
- Eyeglass case
- "Businessman" cards
- Mini USB cable
- Apple in-ear headphones
- MacBook Pro (with laser-etched logo)
- iPhone 3GS
- Palm Pre
- BlackBerry 8830
- G1
- Logitech V550 mouse
- Canon SD790 IS
- Moleskine notebooks (ruled and datebook)
- Parker pen
- Extra battery
- Leatherman Wave
- Sprint EV-DO card
- Verizon EV-DO card
- Tea tree oil toothpicks
- Chapstick
- Prescription medication
- Aliph Jawbone (inside gray case)
- Adapter
- Sony voice recorder
- Various plugs / backup SD card
- Elgato turbo.264 HD
wow,lucky robber when he gets you.
Yeah, I might steal one of those Laptop Sleeves for my MacBook Pro, my sleeve is just the plain black one. :(
i'll take the chapstick since i wont be getting anything else
you want used chapstick? ewwww!
Josh is that a butterfly knife I see? I would've added a Glock 19 in there just for street cred.
ehm.... i think i see a lipstick. You Josh you.
no offense, but i could care less what is in your bag. this is a stupid idea for a gadget blog post. more gadgets, less engadget writer.
My bag contains a lot more snacks and less gadgets.
Sam: Why do you say "I could care less"? It's "I couldn't care less".
I could care less implies you actually could care less about something which is not what you are trying to say, is it?
Greg, thank you for pointing that out. "I could care less" really bugs me irregardless of where it's written or said.
What's the deal? Oh.. I get it... They did not have any "men's colors" where you bought the bag and sleeve. ;-)
Irregardless isn't a word....
"irregardless"?
LOL
@Leo: I am pretty sure irregardless is not a word. Unless you put that in as a joke, in which case kudos.
@Dan: Irregardless not a word?!? The publishers of a number of dictionaries would beg strongly to differ with you.
Irregardless is a nonstandard word, because it contains a double negation (prefixed ir- and suffixed -less). Also, it was an obvious troll by Leo and you guys fell hard for it.
Got enough phones?
If you mean telephones, then perhaps we could change this from unbagging to telephone bagging...
Or just T-bagging for short...
oh wait.....
i thought i was weird for carrying around a dev phone, g1 and n97 (with a touch pro 2 on the way)... nice to know im not alone :)
too many phones, not enough hos
He gets a lot of calls =)
But I have to ask.. what is with the man-purse on the top left?
It's an Incase sleeve, which goes in the bag (the bag has no real laptop slot).
Probably where the notebook is located when inside the bag?
Well now I just feel silly for asking because that makes sense.
and highly fashionable, to boot.
Sorry, but it looks like a woman's purse to me.
from what i understand, josh lives in new york city. keeping that in mind, everything up there is relatively lumberjack manly.
@eric
couldn't have said it better my self. this is like "deadliest catch" as far as new york is concerned...
@sam and eric,
It still looks a little too festive to be considered remotely manly, but to each its own.
Yeah, I know NYC has a bit of a metro thing going on, for a while now, but jeez. I like the guy from what I've seen and read, but that thing is straight out of a chick's bag.
I think I saw Bee Arthur on Golden Girls wear a sweater with the same pattern.
I think its cool, I have a Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus sleeve on my iPod touch, and was looking for something like this for my about-to-be-bought MBP 13"...
I am such a douche and I know it..
Nice murse, Josh.
I have to say, some of the comments here really showcase a certain kind of immaturity and sadly narrow view of the world. If you guys think shoulder bags and the color pink (hot pink in this case) are strictly the domain of women, you really need to open your eyes, because right now you sound like a bunch of babies from the 1930's.
Josh, our eyes are wide open and you're clearly using a girly laptop sleeve. You don't need to defend your man-bag or choice of feminine patterns on your own website.
Regarding the 1930's comment: cry us a river. It's perfectly healthy to make distinctions between masculine and feminine preferences. Do you really care that someone finds your choice of sleeve humorous?
@Joseph Mama -- Enjoy your ban!
Ban? Oh lawd, this is turning into forums. How about instead of reasoning with idiots just ignore them. Though I don't see why they can't state their opinion, if they think it's a girly bag, that's all right, no need to ban them.
ban? I hope your joking.
The colour pink has only been associated (in the U.S.) with femininity since about the second world war. Prior to that, pink was considered a 'manly' colour (due to its closeness to 'powerful' red) - check this quote from the Ladies Home Journal, June 1918: "the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
Colour associations appear to be a solely 20th-century occupation, vary greatly by geographical region, vary over time (as we have seen), and are therefore so obviously arbitrary and subjective that you'd have to be brain-dead to think they meant anything at all.
As for Josh's Incase, the idea that anyone's taste in colour, music, art, literature, or anything at all, can reliably determine their gender, their sexuality, their hormone balance, their masculinity or femininity, or indeed just about anything else, is a truly moronic and offensive notion.
What is really offensive is the use of 'feminine' as a pejorative term - what the hell is wrong with being female? Why should women (or things that appear 'womanly' to you) be held up to ridicule? Do you think that women are somehow inferior to men, so that saying that a man is 'feminine' is an acceptable insult? I mean, it wouldn't be an insult (and therefore you wouldn't have said it) if you thought men and women were equal. By using 'womanly' as an insult, you are clearly demonstrating what you think of women.
Now, from the Weblogs terms of service - "You may not engage in any conduct that is ... abusive, harassing; [or] victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;"
So Joshua was completely justified in banning Joseph Mama. Hey, if you don't like the rules, then don't comment. It is that simple.
I don't think they are saying feminine derisively. Just the same as calling something a woman carries around as masculine, it's just a comment on gender norms, not a pejorative.
Leatherman Surge. I never leave home without it.
I hope I don't get caught with one of those in the UK =P
A Pre and iPhone 3GS living happily together in Josh's bag?
Who said anything about "happily"?
is that really you, dude who cant fart?? been forever, ya digg... comment system still needs work unfortunately :(
Conspicuously absent is a phone with a certain widely used smartphone OS. This is Josh though. Just sayin'
@ Jagster
Yeah, I noticed that too. Makes me sad...
actually....nothing from that company makes an appearance in the bag...
@skyblaze
Yup it's me! I can't seem to get my old avatar working... Oh well. I've been on Gizmodo a lot since I got banned from here.
NOTE TO EVERYONE WHO HATES THIS CRAPPY COMMENT SYSTEM, don't complain too loudly. You'll get banned.
Wow... I have some money and a phone. Oh and some mints.