The Obsessed Programmer

OK everyone, talk amongst yourselves for who gets the privilege of getting each of these things for me.  In no particular order:

Iron Man

Left 4 Dead (PC)

Bioshock (PC)

Heated Car Blanket

HTC Touch Pro (Only $299 upgrade on my current plan with Sprint!)

Danny’s Mouse

The Dark Knight

Cold Stone Creamery gift cards

A nice computer headset (with mic)

Intel X-25M SSD (Make my laptop 10x faster!)

Fit-PC Slim (I’ll find something devious to do with it, don’t worry)

At least 10,000 of these amazing neodymium magnets

The tiniest 8GB flash drive available

Remind me to check this with my luggage

A sweet USB LightScribe-enabled DVD burner (Don’t forget to include LightScribe-able DVDs!)

Help me record good sound on my laptop!

iPod Projector!

Logitech Harmony universal remote

Two walking sticks

Ruger 10/22 rifle (Recommended by a real redneck)

Cool T-Shirts are always a winner

Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon (for the love of all that is holy, please no Xenocide or Children of the Mind, those were awful)

Heck, why not: This year’s Ender book

Bose SoundDock

A good sci-fi short story anthology

Gift card for a “full tune” or “overhaul” for my bike from Jans

Snow shoes for both of us

An 8GB Micro-SD card with all the fixin’s for $22!

This list to lengthen as I think up more stuff.

I know, it sounds like a bad computer game from the ’80s that advertised “VGA!” on the box.  But it’s not.  It’s the name of the haunted house Liliana and I just got home from.

I’d never been to a haunted house before.  I was kind of expecting to be way too freaked out, but Liliana dragged me along.  It was a ton of fun!  I would highly recommend Castle of Chaos in particular to anyone who’s interested in that kind of thing.  There were tons of good scares, and they had this weird 3d-glasses-enabled phosphorescent paint everywhere during part of it that made the whole thing even more otherworldly.

Note: This may not be for the squeamish–there were plenty of high-quality mutilated plastic corpses everywhere.  Also, the occasional strobe light might not be a good idea for an epileptic.