- Any of Alton’s Essential Elements (except for honing steel, can opener, tongs, pepper mill, and potato masher). In particular, a salt cellar and plunger measuring cups. Angled measuring cups would also be cool.
- Tools:
- iTunes gift certificate (to aberkvam@mac.com) or iTunes cards
- Wii Games
- Guitar Hero III
- Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
- DVDs:
- The Simpsons - The Complete Third Season (or any after that)
- Futurama, Vol. 1 (or any after that)
- Spike & Mike’s Cutting Edge Classics
- The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit
- Any Alton Brown DVDs except for vols. 4, 5, or 8 (Target has good deals)
- Almost anything at ThinkGeek, especially:
- LEGO:
- Bean Game grey t-shirt
- Books:
- Gastro Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery by James Lileks
- 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, or 1957-58
- Just A Geek by Wil Wheaton
- Anything by Neal Stephenson (besides Cryptonomicon or Snow Crash)
- Anything by Jeff Noon (besides Vurt)
- Anything by Sarah Vowell
- Groovitude: A Get Fuzzy Treasury by Darby Conley
- Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands
- Anything from the Sloan Technology Book Series
- The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
- The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels
- CDs:
- Anything from the This American Life store
- Chai
- Underwear (Sonoma brand boxer-briefs or briefs in L (36-39))
Last updated Feb 5, 2008 (recently added items in green)