My Wish List

Here’s a “miscellaneous stuff” wishlist I’ve been carrying around for a while. Overstruck items I’ve obtained :-).

games that look interesting:

2006:

older:

Other stuff:

  • GURPS Space books
  • HARP SF (when it finally comes out)
  • Serenity Role Playing Game
  • new chassis for MythTV box (PC-Used or factorydirect.ca)
  • One 4-port S-ATA card
  • Three 300MB S-ATA drives (they seem to be the cheapest per Gb right now). (I went for 2 320Mb ATA drives for now, ‘cos I couldn’t justify the price overhead of converting to SATA).
  • USB hub – we have too many USB devices, even with 5 ports on the desktop box
  • two computer USB switch (removed for now; we do all printing off the windows box)
  • KVM (removed for now, ‘cos I’ve decommissioned a bunch of PCs)
  • I have a Lee Valley Wish List although it’s a catch-all for “nice to have” as well as “must have”…

[ Update: Apparently I’ve been doing some catching up >:]

  • cheap labeller (for file folders, etc.)
  • 100 Mb networking
  • compound mitre saw (power tools…)
  • USB keychain drive
  • “Fresh Fish”:http://www.kumquat.com/cgi-kumquat/funagain/14034 game
  • Crock Pot
  • Digital Camera
  • 256Mb SD memory card
  • SD memory card reader (or multi-media reader)
  • small battery charger
  • lithium batteries (for backup) (4 AA)
  • camera carrying case
  • scanner
  • colour printer
  • DVD writer (for backups)
  • DVD-RAM media
  • firewire and/or USB 2.0 chassis and PCI card (for DVD writer)
  • CD-RW drive
  • CD storage binder
270 words posted at 8:59 am on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 in General |

4 Comments

  1. What, no plasma HDTV?

    Comment by Reid — 12/11/2005 @ 11:43 pm

  2. No, the CPR (Cost Pleasure Ratio) on plasma (or any HDTV) is still too high.

    Comment by Harald Koch — 12/12/2005 @ 11:06 am

  3. We bought an HDTV after our trusty old Magnavox died. Got a Panasonic Veisa 27 inch just two days after the price was dropped from $1700 to $1300, making the CPR palateable. It has been a fab thing to watch. This model has the processor that turns standard TV signals into HD automatically. We got a Rogers HD box for a while but never once used it for HD. Gave it back. Waste of $, that. Movies are great on this set because of the automatic conversion to HD.
    Cheers, Helge.

    Comment by Helge Koch — 1/13/2007 @ 3:01 pm

  4. Everything changes in a year, of course. HP is now making TVs, so I get the employee discount. I’ve also been looking at HP projectors, since our family room has two large walls suitable for projecting large images.

    Still, we’re happy with our existing TV; I probably won’t do anything until it dies. And somewhere in the back of my mind is still a vague desire to watch less TV and read more books :)

    Comment by chk — 1/13/2007 @ 7:25 pm

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