Tom Bihn Bags: The Side Effect

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I effing hate purses. I like the concept of a bag that has all the things you need in it at any point in time, but purses never appealed to me. I like backpacks and messenger bags (read all about that insanity when I wrote about my Pilot) and pockets, but unfortunately clothing manufacturers and fashionistas still can’t seem to grasp that there are women who would rather put all their stuff on their person than in a clutch. Especially one that looks like it came directly out of a bubblegum factory.

Tom Bihn bags: The Pilot

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So for my birthday recently I received a Tom Bihn bag, a Pilot. And I love it. I was never a “bag” person; I mean, I always had one and I always had stuff in it, but was more about convenience than it was about fashion or utility. I had shit to carry, I needed something to carry it it. My bags could have been grocery bags and it didn’t matter.

Until it did.

I got a Microsoft Surface Pro 4!

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So a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised with a gift of a Microsoft Surface Pro 4. I had been drooling about them for awhile, and have recently decided to ramp up my freelancing business so my husband decided one would make a fantastic fourth anniversary present. It was a sweet gesture, and it’s a fan-fucking-tastic machine.

I’m not sure what I like better, the ability to touch and get things done – whether that is just opening a link on a page or selecting objects in Illustrator – or the ability to draw on the fucking screen. I miss my old Wacom tablets terribly, and this is fucking great.

I’ve drooled over a Cintiq, which is probably what you get when your digital artistry REALLY gets going, but yeah, so far I’m loving this thing. (I wrote this post on it as well, I actually really love the keyboard, it’s like my wireless one for my computer, so non-clacky and short-statured.) For now, this will be great for me.

Plus, I can code on this thing too. Sure, it’s a bit of a shock to have only one screen (what the hell did I do before I had multiple monitors?!) but it’s also a great focuser; if I can’t click into Pocket, I can’t get distracted by 14 different articles about the 2017 front-end industry or yet another review of the Tom Bihn Pilot bag.