Joseph's Christmas and Birthday Wishlists

Page last modified Tuesday, 25-May-2010 16:20:26 CDT

Thank you so very much for wanting to buy me a present!

I don't really have my lists partitioned; they're pretty much the same list. ;) The items here aren't in a particular order. You'll also note there are some high-dollar ones (e.g. pcHDTV cards and the lasers book) as well as much cheaper ones (classical CDs tend to run *real* cheap. :)

Please note that used books are perfectly fine! The information in 'em is still good!

Wishlist

  1. Computer Books for Work

    1. GNU C Library: Application Fundamentals
    2. GNU C Library: System & Network Applications
    3. Modern C++ Design
    4. Effective C++, 3rd Ed.
    5. More Effective C++
    6. Exceptional C++
    7. More Exceptional C++
    8. Exceptional C++ Style
    9. Effective STL

  2. Computer Books for Fun:

    1. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual
    2. The Innovator's Dilemma
    3. The Innovator's Solution
    4. Seeing What's Next

  3. Fiction Books:

    1. Most anything from science-fiction is great. Used or not; doesn't matter. Deutsche Bücher würden fantastisch sein! :)
    2. The Book of the Long Sun (any of the series, and also The Book of the New Sun series, both by Gene Wolfe
    3. Fred Saberhagen's Beserker series, except from Beserker Fury and Beserker Kill
    4. Thanks to Shannon, I am now addicted (and aware of the existance of) Fox Trot books, and must now collect them all. I have the following:
      • Your mother thinks square roots are vegetables
      • [title here; forgot it right now and it's not with me]
    5. I suppose political books fall under "fiction," so they may as well go here. I'd like some political books. :)

  4. Science Books:

    1. Solid State Physics by Giuseppe Grosso (Editor), Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini (Editor)
    2. Solid-State Physics: Introduction to the Theory by James D. Patterson, Bernard C. Bailey
    3. Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits by Larry A. Coldren and S. W. Corzine
    4. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (NOTE: I already own Vol. 3, so individual volumes are welcome)
    5. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 4

  5. Fitness

    1. More Dance Dance Revolution for Wii
    2. Some of those cheap but fun Wii action/movement games where you get up and move (e.g the "Party" series and the Wii Sports Resort)

  6. Music:

    1. Any Georg Philip Telemann CD, preferably strings (not some weird rearrangement, 'kay? :)
    2. Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, etc.
    3. Dvorak, Brahms
    4. Especially cello music (e.g. Yo Yo Ma)
    5. Gift certificates to Magnatue It's a record label that's not evil!

  7. Movies/TV Shows (DVD):

    1. Neon Genesis Evangelion (Even one DVD would be great!)

  8. Computer Gear:

  9. Miscellaneous Gear:

    1. T-Shirts:
    2. USB Glowing Ball
    3. Blue Laser Pointer
    4. New and nifty games (if software, for Linux, PS1, or Wii (Since Sony decided to remove the OtherOS feature after they sold it to me, "my" (is it really yours if someone else controls it?) PS3 is no longer able to really play any games; it's now 100% a Linux box.); boardgames or cardgames or whatever always welcome!)

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