Holiday Wish-list

[Chris Gohlke]

Lots of sites put up listings of what they think make great gifts for this year. These are often interesting, but they are usually limited to just a few people opinion. I want to do this the other way around. We have a great and diverse group here, so how about sharing your ideas for great gifts. I'll start off with some of my wish-list items.

Sterling Silver Swiss Army Knife
Commodore 64: 30 Games in One Joystick
Cold Heat Soldering Tool
Logitech Harmony 688 Universal Remote
High Speed 1 GB SD card

[Jeremy Charette]

Nix that Cold Heat Soldering Tool! It's dreadful, to say the least! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007YA7WA/qid=1133651338/sr=8-5/ref=pd_bbs_5/102-5064284-2829723?n=507846&s=hi&v=glance)

My Wish List:

32" or 37" Olevia Flat Panel LCD TV (http://secure.syntaxgroups.com/products/detail.jsp?pid=LT32HVE)
Logitech® Harmony® Advanced Universal Remote for Xbox 360 (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/detailsharmony/US/EN,CRID=2084,CONTENTID=11250)
iPod Nano (http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/)
Averatec 1000 Series 10" widescreen notebook (http://www.averatec.com/notebooks/1000series.htm)
Sony MFM-HT95 (http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/+INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=MFMHT95&Dept=computers&CategoryName=cpu_Displays_PCTV)

My actual Chistmas List:

Xbox 360 accessories (face plates, controllers, games) (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/accessories/)
Gift cards to IKEA (http://www.ikea.com)(need furniture in a bad way!)
Magazine subscriptions (http://www.bestdealmagazines.com)
New clothes (http://www.oldnavy.com)
Anything from Griot's Garage (http://www.griotsgarage.com)

[Felix Torres]

Creative Zen Neeon 6Gb.
Harry Potter audio books on CD.
Samsung L75 Portable DVD player.
Battlestar Galactica Vol1 DVD set. (New series.)
Complete Far Side.
Complete Calvin and Hobbs.

[Chris Gohlke]

Nix that Cold Heat Soldering Tool! It's dreadful, to say the least! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007YA7WA/qid=1133651338/sr=8-5/ref=pd_bbs_5/102-5064284-2829723?n=507846&s=hi&v=glance)

Crap, my wife bought it for me at HD today and I cut out the UPC to do the mail in offer for the free Wire Strippers. Oh well, at least it was only $20.

[Neil Enns]

Canon 5D ($3299.95)
Canon BG-E4 Vertical Grip ($239.95)
ReallyRightStuff B5D-L mounting plate for 5D with vertical grip ($140)
SanDisk 2GB Extreme II (x2) ($433.90)

The look on my face when I find all this under the tree after Jason buys it for me: priceless.

:lol:

Neil

[Jason Dunn]

The look on my face when I find all this under the tree after Jason buys it for me: priceless.

Sure thing, I'll just have to take both your kidneys when I'm down in Seattle, sell them (http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2004/01/want_to_buy_a_k.html), buy you your stuff, then keep the profit. :D

[Jason Dunn]

Nothing too special on my wishlist this year - the wife and I are heading to Mexico for a week in January, so that's sort of our Christmas present to each other. I imagine Christmas this year will be the usual: CDs, DVDs, books, etc. Pretty much anything that I really want is too expensive for anyone but me to buy. ;-)

[Neil Enns]

Sure thing, I'll just have to take both your kidneys when I'm down in Seattle, sell them (http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2004/01/want_to_buy_a_k.html), buy you your stuff, then keep the profit. :D

I think you vastly over-estimate the value of my kidneys :)

Neil

[Philip Colmer]

Pretty much anything that I really want is too expensive for anyone but me to buy. ;-)
I know that feeling :-(

Focus FireStore FS-4 DTE recorder ($1800)
New HDV-capable video editing system ($5K+)
Hi-def system in the living to play it all back on ($6K+)

Deary deary me ... this is getting to be an expensive hobby :lol:.

--Philip

[bluemax]

You can keep your Cold Heat Soldering tool. I bought one over the weekend. To say the least, I'm not impressed. I'm no expert (I've only been doing electronic soldering for the past 30+ years and was Mil-Spec trained.) but it would not do an acceptable job for me on printed circuit boards. It may do better in other applications.

Bill B.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Pretty much anything that I really want is too expensive for anyone but me to buy. ;-)

That sounds like me too! :P

However for general gift ideas, I think accessories make a good gift. Things like memory cards, to earphones, to mice and keyboards can be bought for not too much money and generally can be appreciated by most who fall in the late majority category of technology adopters.