Misc stuff

• Make a donation in my name to the Free Software Foundation or the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Take me to a movie, coffee, concert, lunch, etc...
• A nice pocket knife; Spyderco or similar. Bonus points if it's weighted to open via inertia with a flick of the wrist. I'm fidgety and that's kind of a fun way to fidget.
• Massages are always nice.
• An unlocked (or Sprint) Linux-based phone, such as the Motorola Droid, Nokia n900, or Nexus.
• Vash sunglasses: circular yellow lenses, with a zig-zag on the side of the frame.
• Comics you think I might like.
• A glass surface for my desk
• Zubbles: Colored bubbles
• A compact zoom camera: Canon SX200 IS (12MP, 12X optical, pocket-sized)
• Toys
• Smiles
• Motivation

Music and Sound

• A cracklebox. Here's one type of cracklebox... and a video showing a short demo of it. Or here's a video of a nice DIY cracklebox.
• A nice microphone and a short cable to connect it to a 1/4" stereo jack.
• A Drawdio -- a pencil circuit which lets you draw and play music. (it makes sense if you watch the video(s)) ($18)
• Korg Kaossilator Pro. ($300-$400)
• MicroKORG XL keyboard ($500).
• Korg nanoKONTROL device ($50), to control all the virtual knobs and sliders in a soft synth.
• Some way to hold all my music gear to make it easier to use. A floating desk would be ideal, but we don't have hoverboards yet.
• Double bass drum pedal. (~$150)
• Misc cables / connectors... ask me for details.

Games

• Wii ($199?)
• Playstation 3 ($299?)
• A 1080p display to use with a Playstation 3 ($100-$200)
• Playstation 2 ($130?)
• Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition (for PS2)
• Bayonetta (for PS3)
• Dreamcast (~$50?)

ThinkGeek stuff

• Airzooka ($13)
• They have lots of other neat stuff too, but I'm far from familiar with the whole catalog.

Lights

• LED under-cabinet puck-shaped lights which can be plugged into the wall
• Rave'N 2 colorful LED flashlight
• Glowsticks... 1.5" mini glowsticks, and/or other similar products.

Stuff I already received

• Some nice headphones, such as Sony MDR-7506 or MDR-V700 or MDR-V6. ($60-$100)
• A Korg Kaossilator KO-1
• A Korg Kaoss Pad 3 (KP3)
• Nokia n810 Linux-based "internet tablet"
• A wooden recorder (sounds much nicer than plastic).(thanks, mom!)
• Electric drum set -- the type with touch-sensitive pads that can be reprogrammed with various sounds, preferably with midi output and user-definable sounds. The "ddrum 4" or "ddrum 4 se" is pretty nice. (~$2500)
• (done: thanks, me!) Portable music (mp3/ogg) player.
• Canon Powershot SD700
• Canon Powershot S1 IS
• IBM 31P9490 Keyboard to replace my current Happy Hacker + Cirque Easycat devices
• Green laser pointer (thanks, mom/dad!)
• head lamp: Petzl Zipka Plus
• A nice water bottle (Nalgene or similar).
• Small refrigerator/freezer I could use at work.
• A taco stand (or two) to keep tacos from falling over. (thanks, mom/dad!)
• Kill-a-watt power measurement device. ($30, thinkgeek)
• Nintendo DS Lite
• M3 homebrew card for the Nintendo DS
• Diskwars strategy game pieces.
• A tripod, or similar camera-holding device.
• Transmetropolitan. (thanks for 4-10, trae!)
• Books by Carol Berg (thanks, trae!)
• "Monsters" TV show DVDs (especially "The Moving Finger" episode) (found online, and ... wow, the show is worse than I remembered :)
• One Pound Bag o' Thinking Putty: Like silly putty, but better. I like all the weird colors: bronze, silver, oil slick, electric green, lilac, scarab, lava, sunburst, amethyst, twilight, and all of the glow-in-the-dark ones.
• Invader Zim DVDs. I think there are 3 DVDs plus an extras disc. They all fit into a special box modelled after Zim's house, which is available either empty (~$20, with the extras disc), or full (~$90, 4 discs total).
• (done: thanks Shmoo & Chuck!) Shaolin Soccer DVD
• Fingerworks TouchStream keyboard. (~$330) (note 2005-08: D'oh. Fingerworks died. That'll make it much harder to find a touchstream)
• DVD writer. (I found a nice one for only $38)
• done: (thanks, Willfe!) DVD+R media. Preferably, in spools of 50.
• CDR media. Preferably, in spools of 50. I've been using Memorex ones lately, without any fancy colors.
• done: multimeter / voltimeter
• Two 512MiB RAM sticks for my notebook.
• Large hard drive for my notebook.
• Sharp Zaurus 5500 (done: thanks, me!)
• Palm Pilot (done: I bought myself a m500)
• (done: thanks, galen!) Grab bag (or two) of magnets: http://www.wondermagnet.com/dev/magnets.html (plus, magnetic field viewing sheet). These guys have lots of neat magnets. The 3/4" spheres are especially fun. But the grab bag is pretty neat too. I'm also interested in a few 1/4" spheres, a lot of 3/16" cubes, and some small oblong box-shaped magnets.
• (done: thanks, trae!) Liquid ferrofluid: reviewed here
• Done (thanks, mom/dad!): A binary clock would be pretty neat.
• Done: A foam pillow. Mine is really, really old and getting flat.
• Done: GNU sticker to cover up the logo on my notebook.
• TV-B-Gone. Turns off almost any TV. (thanks, trae!)
• (done: thanks a bunch, trae!) Unicycle
• done: Good NiMH batteries. (probably some powerex ones from here)
• (done: thanks, mom/dad!) Ionic air purifier. this one seems to be relatively cheap/effective. ($60-$80)
• "Cuddle Pillow". Big soft cylinder.. About $8 at Mervyn's..?
• Nice headphones.. either one which wraps around behind the head, or which has over-ear pieces not connected to each other. A good durable cable is a BIG plus, too. (done: thanks, me!)
• AA and AAA NiMH batteries (Nexcell or Maha, highest mAH they sell), plus charger. (http://www.thomas-distributing.com/)
• 8-bit tie ($20)
• Doctor Who's Sonic Screwdriver ($15)
• Anthropomorphizer stickers ($4)
• Magnetic fridge pins ($5)
• Gorillapod ($22-$50)
• Ice glasses ($8)
• "Uber Orbs" oblong, chirping magnetoids.
• (done: thanks, Liz!) Bike tail light.. the kind which flashes, and is powered by the back wheel... or perhaps a flashing battery-powered LED light.
• (done: Thanks, trae!) Forever Flashlight. No batteries; just shake it to charge it up! Power only lasts for 5 minutes, but that is no problem if you shake it periodically.