Gift List
I never remember what I want for my birthday whenever someone asks so I have created this page to act as a reference. I will try and make it as printer friendly as possible.
Books
(Some are in bold for a reason)
- Liturgy of the Hours volumes 2 (Lent) and 3 (Ordinary Time Wk 1-17) – I have volumes 1 and 4 now and quite enjoy them.
- Lloyd Khan, Builders of the Pacific Coast, Shelter and Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
- Mellisa Plaut Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab
- Belle de Jour, Playing the Game
- Bill Bradley, Life on the Run. Quadrangle,1976. ISBN 0-8129-0623-3
- Janet Evanovich. All the Stephanie Plum Novels except for Eight and Ten. (Used is good)
- Lawrence Block: A Stab in the Dark, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Out on the Cutting Edge, A Ticket to the Boneyard, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, A Walk Among the Tombstones, The Devil Knows You’re Dead, Burglar on the Prowl
- All of John Scalzi’s books
- Robert G. Davis, Understanding Manhood in America: Freemasonry’s Enduring Path to the Mature Masculine. ISBN 0935633375
Random Items
- Camping gadgets
- Ski tote
- Ski boot tote
- Ski goggles
Expensive List of Things I Desire But Don’t Expect
These are the items I will probably purchase if I have excessive amounts of money, i.e. after I store 6 months worth of student loan payments (~$4200) in a savings account. I by no means expect anyone to get me them. That being said if I somehow become famous and have fans who want to shower me with gifts …
- Acoustic Guitar Thanks family.
- Katadyn Pocket Water Filter MEC #4013-733
- Computer powerful enough to play video games (discuss this with my wife as she is the hardware guru of the house)
- iPod Touch with car jack
- Sony E-Reader / EZReader
Last Updated: April 7, 2010
Things I Read
- AfriGadget
- AmazingSuperPowers.com
- ASP Badass Diary from Hell
- Belle de Jour
- Bits & Pieces
- Boing Boing
- Boing Boing Gadgets
- Chris Zelkovich’s Sports Media Watch
- CRAFT Magazine
- dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan
- Dilbert Daily Strip
- Dilbert.com Blog
- Doug Smith’s Toronto Raptors blog
- Dueling Analogs
- Electric Prayer
- ESPN.com – True Hoop – Blog
- Heretic Spire, a Damn Lie
- Hoopty Life: One homeless woman’s guide to van dwelling, car living and urban camping
- INHABITAT
- io9
- isles Files
- Lloyd’s Blog
- MAKE Magazine
- Miked Up
- Miss Information
- Neil Gaiman’s Journal
- New York Hack
- Nothing But Leafs
- People of Walmart
- PhotoshopDisasters
- Project Gutenberg Recently Posted or Updated EBooks
- RickMercer
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)
- Sharks
- Sheldon(tm) Comic Strip. Daily, free ‘n awesome. ©Dave Kellett
- Sportsnet.ca – Jim Kelley
- Strange Maps
- Techsploitation
- The Art of Manliness
- The Globe and Mail – From Deep
- The Globe and Mail – Globe on Baseball
- The Way the Future Blogs
- TOKYOMANGO
- Unshelved
- Warren Ellis
- Whatever
- WWdN: In Exile
- xkcd
- xkcd.com
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