What is this place?
Stuff I want.
And links to places selling stuff I want. And stuff
my husband wants, too!
See also:
things you should consider giving
me, if you're getting rid of them anyway.
Things I want:
- Movies
on DVD
- Books
- Alternative Zits by
Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
- Terry Pratchett mass
market paperbacks
- Night Watch
- Making Money
(September 08)
- Wintersmith
- Erin Hunter
- Warriors 5: A
Dangerous Path
- Warriors 6: The
Darkest Hour
- Terry Goodkind's
Confessor (US mass market
paperback)
-
more
on my
wish list page
Computer stuff
- computer speakers
- KVM switch (same
monitor/mouse/keyboard for PC and Mac)
- flatbed scanner
- basic B&W printer
- webcam
- microphone
Gift
certificates for places I spend money anyway
- online
-
amazon.com
-
abebooks.com
-
half.com
-
paperbackswap.com
- buy.com
- overstock.com
- brick and mortar
- Barnes & Noble
- Borders
- Target
- Michael's
- AMC movie theater
Games
Etc
Objects
of Beauty
-
My Books Are Friends that Never Fail Me
poster (Engelbreit)
-
the internet map posters from xkcd.com
-
Periodic
table chart poster from the periodic table
table guy (online
here only)
-
Mineral
specimens
-
blue, titanium-coated quartz crystal
-
Charoite (purple mineral from Russian
river)
-
sodalite sphere
- lump of silicon
- graphite
- big pumice rock
- magnetic lodestone
-
chrysoprase
- huge piece of mica
-
large chunk(s) of petrified wood (bookends?)
-
art
glass paperweight (swirly, blue?)
-
unique
hand-turned wooden bowl
-
Flaming June, 1895 by Frederick Leighton
(in frame, by art.com ~$130)
-
Acme Klein Bottle products: "Baby
Klein Bottle," "Wine Glass of
Tantalus," and "Platonic
Solids Plus 3"
online here only
-
Amac
plastic boxes (from The Container Store
or tapplastics.com)
Miscellany
-
wine
bottle opener with lever
- Unique Media map of the US, laminated
-
Book Darts (bulk bag of 500, $45 + $3 s/h)
online
here
-
pachinko
balls with different markings (not kidding!)
-
from
Engrish.com (new
site, new store!)
-
Engrish Locks shirt
(red
or black, size M)
-
Just It Do sticker(s)
-
No Smorking sticker(s)
-
Darwinfish
mug
-
This glass is now half empty, from despair.com
-
random world coins
-
Chapsticks
- Juicy Tube lip gloss by L'oreal
Science Toys from
Teacher Source
-
large
goo tube or “Soother Tube”
- Geological Flow Demo (sand sculpture
thingy)
- Magic Sand Wand
- Magic (hydrophobic) Sand
- 6 metals density cubes
- steel sphere density kit
- ironwood and lignum vita wood samples
(sink in water)
- pair of buzzing magnets
- magnetic connections kit
- radiometer
- smashing steel spheres (burn through
paper)
- coin vortx
- copper optical illusion spinner
- optical illusion playing
cards
Someday...
-
a
dictionary shelf/stand
-
a
freestanding
"apothecary" chest of drawers
-
Chinese-style display cabinet with
staggered shelves.
-
fancy handmade wooden jewelry chest with
drawers from
Duncan's Woods
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Things Aquinas
wants:
- The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from
the Market's 'Perfect Storm' by Robert F.
Bruner, Sean D. Carr
- Magic
the Gathering cards?
-
Book
from Paper Tiger
-
Buffy season 8 comics (already have 1 to 16)
- More
cashmere socks
- Some kind of high quality
warm mittens
- Agatha
Christie film adaptations (see
this list)
ALREADY HAVE:
- Death on the Nile (1978)
- Evil Under the Sun (1982)
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
- Murder in Mesopotamia (2001)
-
Babylon
5 Scripts
- RoboRally
expansion boards (out of print)
ALREADY HAVE:
Radioactive board set
- Custom
framing for several items
- Diploma
frame for Master's Degree
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