Gift List
Christmas is coming, and the goose is getting fat. If you're feeling generous enough to want to
buy me something, then this list of current desires will hopefully inspire you. That's what it's
here for - I like surprises, so these should be seen as inspiration, not demands. Deviate from the
list as much as you like.
Books
The only book I'm really after is
Basic Photographic
Materials and Processes. You can read a rave review of this book at
photo.net.
DVDs
The Black Books box set is
very tempting. I've just noticed that
Frasier Season 3 is available,
too. That's about it in terms of DVD for now, though.
Photographic stuff
Probably best to hold off on photographic stuff for the time being - I should be getting a new
camera soon, so I'd hate to get anything and then find it's not suitable.
Guitar
If you're feeling somewhat generous, a Gibson SG Special
would be lovely.
I've also been keeping an eye on some nice closed-back
Sennheiser headphones.
Geek stuff
I'm currently considering putting together a Shuttle system that would run Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and Linux. The
main reason is so I can do my Solaris Certification exam, and have something to play about with. Anyway, it would be a
Shuttle SN41G2 with a
Athlon XP 2200+ processor (actually, I'd upgrade my main
PC with this and let the new machine use the chip currently in it), and
512Mb of DDR RAM. It'll also have 2
40Gb Seagate Barracuda hard disks and a
cheap DVD +-R/RW drive. If you wanted to contribute to this
project, it's probably best to get in touch with me first and make sure that yes, I'm definitely
planning to go ahead with building this system, as I'm still not sure.
Attire
I'd like one of these nethack T-shirts, but they've only
got XL ones, and I'm a medium. So boo. The Chicks Dig Unix
shirt is quite nifty, in a geeky way.
Miscellaneous trinkets
The traser
glowring is both shiny and geeky, making it desireable.
