- Any of Alton’s Essential Elements (except for cast iron, oven thermometer, tongs, honing steel, can opener, pepper mill, and potato masher). In particular, a salt cellar and plunger measuring cups.
- Blender and/or food processor
- Small, basic rice cooker
- iTunes gift certificate (to aberkvam@mac.com) or iTunes card
- Wii Games
- Metroid Prime Trilogy
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
- DVDs:
- Agloves
- Magic Cable Trio
- Almost anything at ThinkGeek, especially:
- Oddly, I seem to have all the Think Geek stuff I want
- Bean Game grey t-shirt (XL)
- LEGO Volkswagen T1 Camper Van
- Combination Luggage Locks, something that would go with dark green luggage, for example
- Basic variable-speed Dremel rotary tool, like the 300 series
- Books:
- Black & Decker Codes for Homeowners
- Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads!
- Good Eats 3: The Later Years
- Bloom County: The Complete Collection by Berkeley Breathed
- The Peanuts Collection: Treasures from the World’s Most Beloved Comic Strip by Nat Gertler
- Cooking for Geeks by Jeff Potter
- Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
- Outlaw Cook by Matt Lewis Thorne
- King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
- The Complete Far Side 1980-1994 (2 vol set)
- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
- Any of The Complete Peanuts except for The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952, 1953-54, 1955-56, 1957-58, 1959-60, 1961-62, or 1977-78.
- Anything by Neal Stephenson (besides Cryptonomicon or Snow Crash)
- Anything by Jeff Noon (besides Vurt)
- Anything by Sarah Vowell (besides The Wordy Shipmates, The Partially Cloudy Patriot, or Take the Cannoli)
- Anything from the Sloan Technology Book Series
- The Hotel Dick by Axel Brand
- Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton
- CDs:
- Anything from the This American Life store
- Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music
- Rhino’s Cocktail Mix series
- Chai
- Long-sleeve collared shirts with a “casual/workman” look. Think Gander Mountain or REI (but no plaid).
- I was a Mac user when Apple was doomed t-shirt
- Underwear (Sonoma brand boxer-briefs or briefs in L (36-39))
Last updated Jan 12, 2012 (recently added items in green)