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My Wishlist

If you have the (dis)pleasure of knowing me and wish to buy me a present for X-mas or my birthday, here are some ideas:

[Last updated May 27th 2007]

Unexpected Packages

• I like getting mail, especially if I don't know it's coming or what it is.
• Oh, and if there's bubble wrap to pop -- even better!

Mundane Things

• Brakes for my car? (Doesn't stop as fast in wet weather.)
• Small clock for my car dashboard (Thanks, Andrew.)
• A new alarm clock
• A decent beard trimmer

Stick stuff

• Available from Stick Enterprises:
  • Stick music CDs, specifically:
    • Bob Culbertson's "AcouStick Dawn"
    • Guillermo Cides' "Tribute to Bach" or "El Mundo Interior de los Planetas"
    • Jim Lampi's "Greazy" or "TV Weather"
    • Don Schiff's "Wait by the River"
    • Steve Adelson's "The Answer's Inside"
    • Kevin Keith "The EP"
    • other albums by other Stick players; there are plenty I don't already have.
  • Stick performance videos
  • The Sticktionary, by Chris Crain
• Other stuff:
  • A headphone amp for the Stick...
    (The schematic at the top can be built for $25.) (Thanks, Andrew & Dad!)
  • Effects processors / stomp boxes for both sides of the Stick, i.e.:
    • guitar distortion, wah, chorus, reverb, etc. for the melody side
    • fretless bass simulator, flanger, phaser, etc. for the bass side

Other music stuff

• A book on how to use a "fake book"
  • How To Play From A Fake Book by Blake Neely (Done.)
  • How To Play From A Fake Book by Michael Esterowitz
• On-line throat singing lessons
• Albums (Techno, classic rock, blues, swing, etc...)
• Albums by cool Esperanto bands, for example:
  • Dolcxamar.
  • Kore
  • La Porkoj
  • Milan Docxekal (Team')
  • Picxismo (Colet Neas)
  • Alejandro Cossavella
  • Persone
• A Continuum Fingerboard

Books

• Tien a novel by Johan VALANO, available from ELNA.
• Esperanto comic books, available from ELNA.
• Vojagxo en Esperanto-lando available from ELNA.
• La Hobito, an Esperanto translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. (Thanks, Scott.)
• The EAB MINI-DICTIONARY (Done.) Available from ELNA
• A Dictionary of Idioms (Thanks, Dad.)
• The Secret Language of Birthdays: Personology Profiles for Each Day of the Year
• stuff by some of my favorite authors ( L. Neil Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, Ayn Rand)
• Books by William Sleator:
  • Blackbriar (out of print)
  • The Spirit House
  • Dangerous Wishes
  • The Nights the Heads Came
  • The Beasties (Thanks, Scott!)
  • Oddballs (Thanks, Scott!)
  • The Duplicate (Thanks, Scott!)
  • Hell Phone (new) (Thanks, Scott!)
• Space Demons: The Trilogy, a one-volume edition including Space Demons, Skymaze, and Shinkei, by Gillian Rubinstein.
• Science Fiction/fantasy,
• musings about the 4th dimension,
• anything you think I might like,

DVDs

• Gerda Malaperis la filmo
• Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo, a video Esperanto course. available from ELNA, (Done.)
• Swingers
• Big (Thanks, Dad.)
• Better Off Dead
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Butterfly Effect (Thanks, Dad.)
• The Twilight Zone ( The Definitive Edition) Seasons 1-X
• Reboot seasons 1,2 (Supposedly available!)
• Reboot season 4 (Done.)

Clothes

• A utilikilt
• That black suit Johnny Cash wears in Walk The Line
• 3-finger mitten-gloves
• geek shirts
• socks
• new shoes
• snow boots

Games

• Cooties
• Chess for Three (from $35 to $70)
• Starfarers of Catan
• Lottery tickets (you can't win if you don't play)

Tools / Equipment / Computer Hardware

• An industrial-strength pepper grinder
• Mortar and pestle (Thanks, Tam.)
• a whet stone (for my rock-carving)
• arc welder
• a digital camera (Thanks for lending me your ELPH, Scott.)
• A multi-plexing sound card (one that can play and record at the same time)
• An optical mouse
• A wireless network card

Miscellaneous

• Inner Strength punch card
• A tornado generator
• Some black alabaster stone (sold in Carbondale)
• Posters
• Stuff
• Things
• A pink-frosted doughnut with rainbow jimmies (Thanks, Donut Fairy!)