What I REALLY Want For Yule/Christmas/Festive Guilt & Debt Producing Holiday Is:

[Sibling Chatty]

OK, you guys, now Dan wants a Dalek, too.

Santa, can I have some warm boots??

And a convection oven would be nice!!

And if we're still able to request personnel changes, Please, Santa, take out Rick Perry (Tx. Gov.) and the President and Board of TXU and put in utility managers that don't want to build 6 new coal fired power plants on a plan that was considered too dirty 15 years ago.

That last one could be a prezzie for the whole planet.

[goat starer]

I would like a penguin (the bird not the chocolate bar)

[beagle]

Dare one ask why? Fed up with turkey or goose on Christmas Day are we?

[Griffin NoName]

Anyone know any good recipes for penguin?

[Aggie]

Yeah, but most of 'em are with lemon and tarter sauce*.  Too fishy tasting!

Oi 'eard Bart was cuttin' 'is Fish 'ead Stew with 'em when times were tough last winter....






*and two with wasabi

[goat starer]

Dare one ask why? Fed up with turkey or goose on Christmas Day are we?

because they are lovely!

[anthrobabe]

 

well someone has to poke it with a stick (the dead post that is) and who better than ME

anyway-- it is about 105(give or take-I'm not going to count) days until

"Gimmie Day" also known as Christmas, Boxing Day, Yuletide, Kwanza, The last week before the New Year, Chanukkah, El Posado~ Fiesta Navidad, Etcetera

so my 17 year old (give me a break already) is hinting-- it involves that gadget known as a PlayStation. I am hinting back ---- "Get a job!" Oh- so is my 20 year old--- only she wants rent money all the time so what't new there.

I'm gathering job applications and am going to use them as gift wrapping paper this year-- 

[Aggie]

You do know that it would be very easy to find a secondhand Playstation 1 with a whole pile of games for next to nothing, right?   

As long as she's not specifying which Playstation, you're golden.


I really need to track down a living Atari 2600 to put in a box against the day my future children ask for a videogame system. 

[Darlica]

You are such a mean man...

[Aggie]

Hey, that's what I got....  and they were already well outdated when I was a kid!


Actually, the best part about the Atari is that games only lasted a certain length of time.  You could waste an afternoon, but not entire seasons playing the same game.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Maybe your kids will be thankful...

I mean, it will become an antique in the future and maybe very expensive...

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I really need to track down a living Atari 2600 to put in a box against the day my future children ask for a videogame system.

For some (not so) strange reason I read XBox, which got me thinking...

1. Get an old working console for next to nothing on ebay.
2. Get a non working XBox/360/Playstation 3 for next to nothing on ebay.
3. Open both boxes.
4. Take the guts of the new damaged console out
5. Put the guts of the old working console in
6. Mod the ports (that is the hard part).
7. Close your *new* old console and make sure that everything will not tumble inside.
8. Wrap.
9. Enjoy (the face of the recipient while (s)he realizes that the brand new console is in reality something veeeeery different).
       

[Aggie]

The hardest part would probably be "upgrading" the controllers, and figuring out where to jam the cartridge.  But I'm sure it would be possible.  I like your way of thinking....

[anthrobabe]

Actually she would probably be happy with the "older" version- we haven't had any game systems in the home--- nope never-- Oh they play- alot at other peoples houses. Just never something I could spend money on.

The real issue is the very detailed and specific idea she has for the I-pod stuff. Even down to some sort of engraving she can have done.

I have an old "live" Atari--- including the Robot that came out that one could play against.

Me--- like Dan, Bluenose,etc--- I will be awaiting (still) my Dalek -- their is one now that has a USB hookup for desktop   Exterminating!

[Alpaca]

October 9th's the birthday.

New version of Mac OS X comes out then. That'd be lovely. So would some sort of enormous hard drive to make use of the amazing backup functionality therein.

Depending on what the September 5th press conference yields, maybe an iPod upgrade? That would be pure coolness factor, though - the current one is 2 years old, but working just fine.

After seeing that my list consists solely of computing products, I realize that I need to get a life.