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Holiday Wish Lists

Nov 01, 2005 MonkRX link
The Holiday season is coming! Woo!

Lets post our wish lists up and see what everyone wants this Holiday season.

1. Nitro-RC Car (On road)
2. Xbox 360
3. Razer Copperhead

What are you wishing for?
Nov 01, 2005 roguelazer link
1. Nokia 770
2. nVidia GeForce 6800GT (6600GT would also be acceptable...)
3. LED Binary Watch ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6a17/ )
Nov 01, 2005 who? me? link
a lava lamp!
Nov 01, 2005 Suicidal Lemming link
Nov 02, 2005 Celkan link
Indeed, emphasis on wish for the first one:

• Quad-core G5 with ALL the fixin's (monitors, speakers, etc.)
• Myst V
• Dock/Applecare for my new 60GB Video iPod
• new set of headphones, noise-cancelling preferable
ANOTHER YEAR OF VO
• My desktop to be working like it should (at three years old last month, doubtful. Very.)
• One (or two) of THESE: http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/7309/
• And one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/5a47/
Nov 02, 2005 Dark Knight link
http://www.automotivearticles.com/123/Ariel_Atom_USA.shtml

I live a whopping 15 miles away from the only authorized dealer in the US, too!
Nov 02, 2005 Forum Moderator link
I would like a nice massage chair - the expensive kind what with the kneading and the rolling and the...well, you get the idea.

After doing something to the house that would have cost thousands if we paid somebody else to do it I invariably turn to my wife and say "There! Now with the money saved, we can get a massage chair!" to which she invariably replies "You are so not getting that." D'oh.
Nov 02, 2005 jexkerome link
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company

I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves

I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land

That's the song I hear
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony

Oh, and a million dollars.
Nov 02, 2005 Phaserlight link
iPod Nano
Nov 02, 2005 Spellcast link
heh.. i've allready got my holiday gift picked out.. the wife and I are going to a neat bed and breakfast in southern ohio, ( http://ravenwoodcastle.com ) thats hosting a mystery weekend on new years eve. Its basically a giant game of clue with the guests as the playing pieces and the castle and grounds as the gameboard.. lots and lots of fun.

(the B&B is a nice place to go relax on normal trips as well, no phones, no TV, no Radio, no annoying neighbors.. just get away, read a good book, have a cup of coffee on the back porch and watch the sunset..)
Nov 02, 2005 Ghost link
for my holiday, i would love the following:

-equipment carryable as cargo

-cap ship v. hive battles

-pilotable cap ships as well as multiplayer craft (trident!)

-that damned TPG cap ship

-a partridge in a pear tree
Nov 02, 2005 Beolach link
It's not going to be available until after the Holidays, but the next-gen Neuros 442 is going to be sweet. And then I could capture all the VO video I wanted, w/out all the stupid audio problems I have now....
Nov 02, 2005 Celkan link
Phaserlight: you're much better off getting a Mini, Photo or Video iPod... the Nanos break waaaay too easily. And I mean snap-in-half break, not just malfunction.
Nov 02, 2005 roguelazer link
That's odd. Ars Technica highly praised the Nano in that regard. They ran it over with a Volkswagon and it still worked.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3
Nov 02, 2005 who? me? link
i think spellcast's wish owns anything that anyone has posted here.
Nov 02, 2005 momerath42 link
Spellcast: That sounds awesome! I went to the site, but didn't find that event. Is it already booked?
Nov 02, 2005 Moofed link
- California King size bedsheets
- Firefly/Serenity set
- some Magnetix
- http://www.cafepress.com/itanialliance.25272210
- Sheet music for Tom Waits' Alice

Curse Ohio's lowres-ness! Can't see anything that even resembles a castle...
http://tinyurl.com/8l5sj
Nov 02, 2005 Spellcast link
momerath, check the news and specials button at the bottom left. that little swirly square is a link. (honest)

From checking the availibility on the website it looks like there might be a few rooms left, which is a little surprising because most of the time thier winter events book up around august.

oh, and moofed, the dirt track (the oval) in the satelite image is about 800 yards downhill from the castle itself through a light woods. Its actually a horsebreeding farm where they train horses for races in local fairs.

EDIT: and looking at the overlay of the roads, i'd say the arrow is pointing at the castle mailbox. the actual castle is (at closest zoom that has imagery) about 3/4 of an inch south and east of the red arrow.
Nov 03, 2005 mainbutter link
CDs: notes:
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Trans Siberian Orchestra - all
Max Weinberg 7
Celldewller
5th element soundtrack
Daler Mehandi - Tunak Tunak Tun
Star Wars Trilogy sound track
Leon the Professional Soundtrack
John Scofield
Bela Fleck
Youngblood Brass Band
Powerman 5000

DVDs:
**note, please all get in widescreen edition if available**
Inuyasha season 2 box set(when it comes out)
Family Guy boxes 1, 2, 3
Army of Darkness
The Big Lebowski
Zoolander
Ghostbusters I and II
Blues Brothers
The Godfather
Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison
Nightmare Before Christmas
Platoon
Willow
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
E.T.
Jurassic Park 1/2/3
The Neverending Story 1 & 2
Death to Smoochy
Tremors 1/2/3/4
X-files season box sets
War of the Worlds(tom cruise)
Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children
Jaws(just the first one)
Indiana Jones(all)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars episodes 1/2/3
Saw

OTHER:
SCUBA gear(BCD, regulators, 2 wetsuits(for warm and cool waters))
Bulk Pez
***CASH****!!!!!! I need some to buy my girl nice things, please help me out here!

That's my list I send out to my family and friendw who I exchange gifts with.
Nov 03, 2005 Suicidal Lemming link