"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.
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!)
Kolb says manufacturing key to Upstate N.Y. economy [more] ![]()
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Metropolitan Opera comes to Ithaca [more]
East State Street closing in City of Ithaca for a few weeks [more]
Town meets gown for Ithaca's Take Back the Night [more]
Revisiting a revitalized Joe's Restaurant in Ithaca's west end [more]
Springtime marks welcome return of Ithaca Farmers Market [more]
14850 Dining | 14850 Magazine 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 cleanerHigh-ticket items:
- LG Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Combo Player
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(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" HDTVMid-range stuff:
- Any HD-DVD Player or Blu-Ray Player
- Seagate FreeAgent eSATA drive for TiVo HD
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- 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 setAssorted 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" soundtrackPolo 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 controlLast modified 6 December 2007.