"Wow, how gross and self-serving," you say! Perhaps you have a point, but enough people ask me from time to time what I'd like as a birthday gift, or a Channukah gift, or a Groundhog Day gift, that I thought I ought to provide this page as a public service. Consider these ideas or starting points for our mutual convenience, rather than expressions of greed. :-) Besides, it was my brother's idea! I simply stole it from his page. (He claims the original idea belongs to Chris Manly. Whatever.)

For the record, Channukah begins the evening of December 4th this year, and my birthday is June 6th. :-) Locating Groundhog Day is left as an exercise to the reader.

If for some reason you followed a link directly to this page from elsewhere than my home page you may wish to check that out too.

I now have an Amazon.com wishlist! They keep track of what I'd like, and what I've bought and/or been given from this list.

• Mark's Amazon Wishlist

I have removed the list-item tag from gifts I've received (or purchased on my own), so a bullet or asterisk should no longer appear next to items I no longer need. To avoid confusion, I'm also moving the items I no longer need to the end of each list, and dimming them for those of you with modern browsers. (I'm leaving them on the list to serve as inspiration, and so you won't duplicate the efforts of others!)

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Housewarming items:

• Waffle iron
• Any Murray McDavid single malt scotch bottling
• OK, any single malt scotch!
• Premium vodka
• Fine gin
• Good tequila
  Magnetic bottle-opener to sit on refrigerator door
  Series2 TiVo
  Wood meat carving board
  Pot holders and trivets
  Cast iron dutch oven, griddle, frying pans
  Carving knife and fork set
  Large (6qt or more) Rival Crock Pot with removable crockery
  Roomba Discovery SE robot vacuum cleaner

High-ticket items:

• LG Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Combo Player
  (Though some suggest a decent Blu-Ray player and a decent HD-DVD player separately would be saner.)
• Cornell Hockey Association Coach's Club membership
• Air-conditioner unit for my central air system (currently just heat)
• Jacuzzi bathtub and bathroom renovation
• Outdoor hot tub
• Two-week cruise to the Mediterranean or vacation on Nassau
• HDTV Camcorder such as Sony HD 750A
• Lifetime supply of Doritos
• Bowmore 40 year Islay Scotch gift set
  Nikon D60 or D80 digital SLR camera
  13-inch MacBook
  TomTom Go 700 car GPS with Bluetooth (coming out in June?)
  Humax DVD Recorder with TiVo
  Sony Vaio or Sharp Actius laptop computer
  Small house, preferably in Ithaca's northeast area
  Digital Video camcorder with FireWire capability
  2002 Audi Quattro A4 1.8T five-speed
  Apple PowerBook G4 laptop computer
  "Bookshelf-style" stereo (CD & radio) for office
  Plasma or DLP 40"-60" HDTV

Mid-range stuff:

• Any HD-DVD Player or Blu-Ray Player
• Seagate FreeAgent eSATA drive for TiVo HD
• Any other Murray McDavid Mission II bottling
• Dockers -- I wear 38x32
• iRobot Scooba
• Pocket-sized Digital Camera
• iPhone
• AT&T service for iPhone
• iPod touch
• Tall bookcases
• Year's supply of Doritos
• Buffalo Sabres authentic jersey
• USA Hockey authentic jersey
• 16-24 quart stock pot
• Airport Express base station
  Series3 TiVo
  3-in-1 Cornell ECAC Hockey Jacket (size L) from PSP
  Medium-duty gas lawn mower
  Tall videocassette rack(s)
  Bigger, better microwave oven
  TurboNet Ethernet card for my TiVo
  Large dutch oven
  Large electric crock pot
  Murray McDavid Mission Lagavulin 1979 whisky bottling
  Airport Extreme base station
  Bar blender
  New leather jacket
  Pentax Optio S4i digital camera
  512 MB of additional memory for PowerBook G4
  Olympus digital camera with zoom
  900 MHz cordless phone
  Tall, narrow CD rack(s)

More-affordable items:

• Thin, light black leather gloves
• iTunes Music Store gift card
• Assorted DVDs that might be fun to have
  • Any "James Bond" movies
  • "Little Shop of Horrors"
  • "Shakespeare in Love"
  • "Saving Private Ryan"
  • "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace"
  • "The West Wing" (after season 3) on DVD
    "Evita"
    "Moulin Rouge"
    "Galaxy Quest"
    "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut"
    "American Pie"
    "Shrek"
    Any "Star Trek" besides "Insurrection"
    Any "Batman" movies
    Camera tripod
    Good cheese knife set

Assorted CDs I lack and would enjoy

• Billy Joel "An Evening of Questions and Answers..."
• A live recording of the recent Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds tour
  Les Miserables in Japanese (is there such a thing?!)
  Meat Loaf "Bat out of Hell"
  Any Queen album but "Live at Wembly '86"
  Third Eye Blind
  Joan Osborne "Soul Show"
  Paul Simon "Graceland"
  Dave Matthews Band "Live at Red Rocks"
  "Blues Brothers" 2000 soundtrack
  Billy Joel "Concert" (Soviet Union tour)
  Fleetwood Mac's new mostly-live album
  The Who "Join Together"
  Billy Joel Greatest Hits volume 3
  "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack

Polo shirts (size L or XL depending on cut)

Amazon.com gift certificate

Regal Cinema Cash

Just a Taste gift certificate

Willow of Ithaca gift certificate

Maxie's Supper Club gift certificate

Newsweek magazine renewal

Playboy magazine renewal

DyC whiskey from Segovia, Spain

Interesting bourbon

Interesting Scotch whiskey

Powers Irish whiskey

Hendricks Gin

Three Olives Vodka

Interesting beer

Interesting wine, preferably red. No chardonnay, please.

Interesting hangover remedies (just kidding)

Interesting boxer shorts (size L or 38)

A bag of Doritos
Spare TiVo remote control

Last modified 6 December 2007.