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Geek Gift Ideas 2001
Once again its time for Slashdot readers to chime in on what they think would make good gift geek christmas presents. Please put approximate prices in the Subject so Santa can more easily decide your gift ;) I'm still stuck for ideas for a few people yet. Of course I'll have to post my ideas anonymously so people don't know what they're getting ;)
I just heard on the radio that Richard William Wheaton III (Wil Wheaton's full name) was found dead today at his home in LA. We will all remember his wonderful performances as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek:TNG and Gordie Lachance on Stand By Me. Wil has contributed much to society, and I'm sure he will be greatly missed by the readers of Slashdot.
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A girlfriend of course, all geeks want those !
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
....a nice pair of wooly socks? They're always handy !
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My two front teeth...
My two front teeth...
Hey, don't blame me, that's the song. :-D
Did you give it to him? You could have used it on that penultimate word.
And without port 80 blocked.
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I want my shiny New Economy back!
I don't know what would be a good geek gift, but whatever it is imagine a beowolf cluster of them for sure!
The RealDoll. Never have to talk to a real girl again!
And, for you geekchicks out there, they now make a male realdoll!
Brant
Argle. Bargle.
The first time I read your post I thought you said: "all geeks want hoes." Which makes sense; when's the last time you saw a nerdy pimp? ;)
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
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"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
However, my sister's kids are getting a Dreamcast with Samba de Amigo that I picked up several months ago. Really, it is more of a family gift (my mom loves that game), but I like to play the rich uncle who shamelessly spoils his niece and nephew (since their mother doesn't).
The middle mind speaks!
12. 36 gig SCSI drives
11. Mosix Nodes
10. Thousand dollars
9. Monitors
8. Cases of DVD-Rs
7. OC-3's
6. Cases of beer or caffinated beverage.
5. Golden fingers
4. Dual-Head Matrox g550s
3. Months of rent
2. Mylex raid controllers
1. Copy of Manos!
I personally would really enjoy a high-powered high-tech remote control helicopter myself.
:) Maybe even a sensitive omni-directional mic?
Arm it with a video camera to not only spy on friends or surprise them when they are backing out of the driveway... But also to travel over long distances and see where you are going at the same time
Hook up the A/V and R/C to a high-power transmitter and sit in your equipment van in the park with the dish spinning.
I think it'd be a blast.
orgnine
Get every Geek what he really wants: A CowboyNeal Picture of the day calandar! That way, they could look forward to each and every day of the year knowing that there is always someone with a more pathetic existance than they have!!! :)
Inexpensive and wise.
Oh, yes.
Your freedom is worth far more than a woman.
Enjoy it.
I kept expecting you to say something like "Shooting some shmuck in the crotch... priceless."
How about a girlfriend that doesn't complain when I get on the computer?
>>or perhaps just another 21"
I could go for a few more inches, but 21 might be a bit extravagant.
Real Geeks do Ogg, not MP3. MP3 is so 1999.
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Osama bin Laden's nuts on a stick planted at ground zero!
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>> 6. Cases of beer or caffinated beverage
WHOA! An invention for Christmas...
Caffinated Beer! - its what every geek knows they don't know they want!
Who's with me on this?
- An "appliance I can't do without"
- An algorithm loved by all
- Goes great with steak
- A favorite display device of many
What is this wonderous gift of all gifts?!? Why CowbowNeal, of course! Get 'em while they're hot!IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
Only problem I had was that I folded the thank you note in the "baby in a cradle" pattern to commemerate my "new time wasting project" (the origami). She mistook it and thought my wife and I were expecting...
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Nothing worse than when non-geeks buy geeks presents.
"Gee thanks! A new mouse! ummmm yeah it's great...it's got a ball on the bottom. How quaint."
I think steve martin said it best, when he said this
...the gift of the English language. Take time out from your day and teach a poor, semiliterate computer nerd how to spell. Make space in your day to instruct him on the difference between "loose" and "lose". Get him a Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
The editorial staff of Slashdot certainly could use this gift, from what I've seen.
hyacinthus.
Yes!! me too! :) No one understands that the gift of tofu is the greatest gift of all!!!
Can you see Iron City here?
My cubemate got me a 2002 Easy Origami Daily Boxed Calendar. It's printed on origami paper and every day gives you a different origami to fold (you're supposed to use yesteray's paper to fold today's project, but I might just buy a separate supply of paper - not sure yet). It gives you exactly what you want from a daily calendar - a minute of fun to kick start your morning without derailing the rest of the day.
Only problem I had was that I folded the thank you note in the "baby in a cradle" pattern to commemerate my "new time wasting project" (the origami). She mistook it and thought my wife and I were expecting...
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
thats funny.
Id rather have
12. months of rent
11. thousand dollars
maby thats because I live in boston....
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
Some grammar books and maybe a list of topics already done Maybe i would get some slashdot insurance for sites about to be slashdotted.