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Well it's the Christmas season.  (And Hanukkah in a week, but I'm tired of being PC and saying "holiday") Time for office parties, door prizes and gifts from family that we can all ooh and ah about. Share with the class the nifty gadget you got, or are going to give this year.

Myself, the wife won an I-Pod Nano at my old job's holiday party last night.  I'm all flushed in anticipation of playing around with it at the new job since they won't let me play or rip CDs on my PC.  Glee.

We're giving the son a little non-motorized ride-in car for his birthday/ x-mas (Sucks to be born on the 24th.) which is about as gadgety as we're giving this year.

The only gadget I think I might pick up is a nice universal remote (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16880099001).  Or maybe even the model above it if I can find a deal:
(http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/80-100-712-11.JPG)

At my office party there were several nanos given out, a gps system, one of those absurd robots that vacuum floors and a PSP giga pack.  Who won the PSP?  In a tech company where 80% of the people would love to have won it the secretarial admin for the salespeople got it.  She had no idea what even it was, bah!

I think my husband bought me a vaccuum cleaner.

I wish it was a rolling pin instead.  I can think of a really good use for that.

That's so old hat. I suggest you get yourself this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7547408822&category=11751

That's always a great gift for women - housework enablers.

I bought myself a new video card that I can't get to work. Merry Christmas. Wait, we're supposed to get gifts for other people too?

Getting the fiancee a stand by golden oldie (hour spa treatment).  And that one bridge game.

Expecting to receive some books (Dune Series + Ender's Game series) and probably a griddle.

It's small because we're getting that 60" SXRD in January.

I am officially not participating in the holidays this year, because I'd rather not be broke and unemployed.

I just know that I am getting the Final Fantasy XII demo.  And Dragon Warrior VIII as a bonus on the disk, sweet.  I asked for nothing at first, but no one was going for that, so I set up a wishlist on Amazon and told the older set that I needed clothes.  Let the chips fall where they may.  I hope I didn't forget what was on my wishlist and buy something for myself that I am also getting.

Son is getting a footpowered car, a ginormous playhouse, and other stuff I just don't remember because I have not assembled it.

Wife is getting Firefly in a Box, some Choxie (go to Target) and a T-shirt which is pretty cool so don't say anything.  The rest of the year she gets to malign my checking account, anyway.

From her parents, my wife is also getting a vacuum cleaner.  This one, however, is a robotic vacuum cleaner.  I'm George Fucking Jetson, bitches.

Depending on the vaccuum, I'd be thrilled.  But, I've already got a Dyson Animal. It kicks major ass. 

Got the wife an Ipod Nano.  I'm getting mostly tennis gear (cheaper)  because I'll be getting a new computer soon after the holidays.

I'd tell you what I'm getting my wife, but since she reads these forums, I'm not going to spoil it for her.

She already knows it's anal beads.

He got a good deal on them on eBay. Hardly used at all!

I don't know if I'd trust anything being sold by "skull_cane_bruce_the_furvert" though.

Yah, I know,  :dead_horse:

Rasix, I don't think he is a necrophilic beastialiator.

It's not necrophilia if they are just passed out on roofies. But it feels like it.

I got my fiancee a chopper (no, not one of these (http://www.chopperassemblyvideos.com/), one of these (http://ww1.williams-sonoma.com/cat/pip.cfm?skus=6197784&pkey=xsrd0m1%7C15%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Cchopper&gids=sku6197784&cmsrc=sch)). But she better damn well like it, it was $40!

n00b

I'm pretty sure my wife is getting me a nice black Citizen diving watch, that used to belong to my boss.
I'm trying to locate a Nike+Philips MP3 Run player for her... but I'm running out of time here.


When we moved into our new house, we bought ourselves a Roomba (lovely little critter) and last week I bought myself the Sony Ericsson W800i mobile - what can I say, I like toys.

We're also looking at a new wood burning stove. You think it's just a metal box you light a fire inside, but the new ones being made are actually pretty high tech (and gadgety).

Wow. That's awkward.

Why?
He has two - thought he lost the black one, bought a new (he makes the kind of money where buying a new one, before checking the backseat of the Porsche, apparently makes sense...). Now he has two and is selling one. I "hinted" at my wife, that this item would make someone close to her very happy. It's a $600 dollar watch.

Honestly, I was hoping you'd leave that to the imagination. I had this whole consensual affair story in my head and now it's all been shatters. /lesigh

I was right thre with you mang...   :cry:

I thought when he referred to it in the past tense, he meant his boss is no longer among the living. They just need to wash the dirt off the shovel. But it sure is a nice watch!  :evil:

Just bought myself some dvd's and a new office chair since this one is fucked.

I bought Righ some clothes, some slippers he'll never wear, some games.  I'll put them under the coffee table on Christmas Eve since we don't have Christmas trees.   We don't usually do anything much but since we've blew off our families two years in a row, we have to pay attention to them this year or we'll be disowned... not that they own much or anything. 

Tomorrow I will buy him much beer.
(http://www.farepak.co.uk/img.asp?f=products/9644.jpg&x=350)

Good girl.

We're getting a gas burning stove put into our fireplace. We are also getting a tankless water heater. Yay, presents to ourselves to help us with this freakin' cold winter!

ok, your stories are better.

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All of you are going to hell.

A deer gave my mom a frontend collision as an early present yesterday.

Hey, at least we get some venison out of the deal.

My brothers gave me a new monitor (http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/17/viewsonic_vp930_lcd_monitor/). My kids are getting an insane amount of toys, one highlight being a 6 foot inflatable T-Rex. My in-laws are the worst present givers on the planet so I expect another LLBean shirt (mother-in-law works there so everything she gives is LLBean.) I gave one brother a iPod nano and the other wanted a specific pair of sneakers from www.zappos.com (http://www.zappos.com) but they don't have his size in stocl so he is SOL. The wife and I are going present free since we just redid the kitchen, although I got her the newest Madonna CD.

I hate you people.

Did that sound ditzy?

Also, I have no idea this year what my husband got me and unfortunately he knows everything I have gotten for him, he hates being surprised and usually he is very direct about what he wants, present wise. I'm lucky that way.

He - Not so lucky :(

I'm hoping for a nice wireless keyboard/mouse combo so I can bring catassing to new heights by never even having to leave my bed to grind.

Hm.  Probably should've thought of that when I had more free time.

This sentence just sounds weird.  Very nearly pervy, too.

You gave me an idea, Signe. But I will not speak it aloud. In case it's heard.

I made myself some new wallpaper out of the chibi little Mega Man characters that were redesigned for the remake of Mega Man on the PSP. I offer it to you here, unstained by the blood of the innocents (a one time only offer). Oh, and it is, btw, only for widescreen monitors that run at 1680x1050. It's not for you, Sky.

I hate schild's wallpaper.

Oh wait... wrong thread!   :oops:

Megaman, Cutman, Fireman, Gutsman, Boltman, Iceman, and Bombman hate you too.

The high resolution isn't the biggest reason I wouldn't use that crap :P

Awwww comeon. You were never a child were you. Anime-y Capcommy Megaman Drawings were great. Would you prefer this shit?

(http://www.tomheroes.com/images/NES%20megaman2%20box.JPG)

(http://www.videogameconnection.com/images/NESMega%20Man%201.jpg)

Goddamn that second picture gives me the heebie jeebies.

Edit: Oh, and 7 words for you: State of the Art High Resolution Graphics.

I agree with Signe. The wallpaper sucks.

No, it doesn't. Obviously the only sucking sound if coming from y'alls monitors.

I loved Mega Man and I KNOW he loved me back.  That wallpaper is very nearly as silly as your affinity for pink Japanese pre-teen gurlie toys!

It's true.

This is a set of windup Sushi from Japan. It is awesome. It has NOTHING to do with pre-teens or gurlie things. Gurlie isn't even a word. And it's not just japanese. I love most minimalist European furniture and the cell phone systems in place in South Korea amaze me. I like the bread stores in France. I like the street vendors in Italy. But this is the internet and this is a gaming website. There are two places where 99% of the topical things for this industry come from, Japan and America. It's not my fault Japan is fucking insane and I'm amused by it.

Gurlie is too a word!

(http://www.havfrue.com/brucsinha/dez2004/012-12-04.jpg)

Sure. What does that have to do with my utter dislike of anime flavoring japanimation?
Oh, god. The only thing I like less than that postavantmodernistwhatever garbage is the froofroo Louis XIV frenchy crap.
MXC was funny for about three episodes. Right you are, Ken!

Pinky gurlie things is actually a cover for schild's deep seeded affinity for tentacle rape.

Yikes. Even I didn't know that.

"deep seeded"

You make me giggle.

Yes, I thought it'd be funny to screw up deep-seated since I was complaining about "its", "it's", "your", "you're".

You know, it was funnier before I explained it. Nevermind.

schild likes tentacles.

You need to learn how to spell that if you're going to try to cut someone with it.

I got games: X-Men Legends 1, ESPN NHL 2k6 and Jade Empire for the X-Box and X-Men Legends for the N-Gage. Yes, the N-Gage. It looks not too bad.

Poptart was given a GameBoy Advance SP with Super Mario Advance 3, Pac-Man Collection, and Super Mario Kart Advance, and a WebCam.

No comments from the peanut gallery about the webcam.

Now having the Hedgehog in her avatar makes sense...

Me > peanut gallery

For some reason,  I got alot of scarves this year.  Yes, scarves.  I mean, they're nice scarves that look good with my dress coats, but still.....

Scarves?  WTF.

Strangely, I got scarves, too.  I can't remember the last time I got one, maybe 15 years ago or so?  And this Christmas I got two.  One from my sister, and one from Righ's sister who, every year, sends us something from Scotland, even though she lives in Houston now.  Her scarf had matching mittens.  I've never got the hang of mittens... maybe because I used to smoke and I need my middle finger to drive.

I thought you used your middle finger to communicate.

I'm all atingle waiting for the verbal beating she is going to give you for being too dense to get her clever joke.  ALL ATINGLE!

Yeah I totally missed that one. Teach me to post before coffee that will.

Sauced gave me the DVD boxset of Life of Mammals (I  :heart: David Attenborough), a DS!!! and Animal Crossing and Castlevania Dawn of Sorrows for it. And a new copy of Napoleon Dynamite since my other copy got loaned and lost. And don't make fun of me. I think it's a damn funny movie.

I gave him The Movies, God of War, Atelier Iris, a copy of THX-1138 (director's cut, and he'd never seen it), Castlevania (the NES original) and FFIV for the GBA, and five t-shirts from Threadless. It sounds like a lot, but I impulse-bought most of those things over the course of a coupla months and just stashed 'em away. That way I didn't hafta feel guilty about shopping.  :-)

I forgive you. 

Thanks, the spirit of giving is alive and well.

Wait.  What do you mean by "spirit of giving"?  Are you expecting some sort of Forgiveness Gift or something?

Signe, your sig sucks.

...but I can't tell you to get rid of it because there's no picture there.

Isnt that what the Tenticle Rape does to you?

I gota go with Sky on this one. That japanimation crap just doesnt do it for me. Every time I hit the bookstore and see those kids reading the Manga, or what ever that shit is. Ugh.

Also, Hat. you wont be sorry. I was sick the last 4 days. And I spent most of the time in front of my SXRD. I love even more than before.

My last three sigs have been to support Fenom.  I was going to make it bigger but even I couldn't handle it.  Anyway, if it REALLY bothers you, I'll change it.

Probably not getting it anytime soon.

Fuck you very much car insurance.

If you'd stop running over people you wouldn't have a problem.

Or you need to run over more people so there are no witnesses.

I thought you were a guy?

Medical insurance went up for the next year, yet again. I love medical insurance. I've put in roughly $12k since I've been working here and pulled out $1.5k. It's also mandatory, I can't waive it unless I'm otherwise insured. Fucking insurance scam. I like when the AFLAC guy comes every year, I asked him if they have that policy that refunds my money if I don't use their insurance for the year. He just hands me the supplemental waiver.

New toy: Canon Powershot A520. Apparently my girl liked the pictures I took in Vermont with my mother's A80 (which I had bought her the previous xmas).

I just got AFLAC at work, and I can't imagine anyone waiving it, at least not when they start to get to my age. I'm starting to realize that some of that shit is probably going to hit me soon, so it'd be nice to get paid when I get cancer.

Or poke out an eye with a pair of fingernail clippers after tripping over a doggie toy.

Don't you wish you had been nicer to her?

Err.  I guess.  I actually kind of wish I had been nicer to everyone.  :heart: :heart: :heart:

Or removing an eye with a rusty spoon after reviewing D*r*k Sm*rt's upcoming opus- "Voles Online".

Not only can you play on land, sea, air and space...now play in the new exciting underground tunneling action!

What? You don't get it? You fucking plebians just can't comprehend my genius.

Yes, I am a guy.

That's why I'm especially freaked out by getting a bunch of scarves.

I got a really bitchin' top hat from my mother this year.  It makes me seven feet tall.  Haven't had the guts yet to wear it around town.

All the coolest people wear them!

(http://okcasting.topcities.com/images/pics/robert%20taylor%20abe%20lincoln.jpg)

(http://musicmoz.org/img/editors/mtickle/slash.jpg)

(http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/people/comedians/sadowitz-jerry.jpg)

(http://www.posterworx.co.nz/images/gen_art/Pp0958TheCatInTheHat_G.jpg)

I got a 30gb video iPod, which is great.  The downside is that trying to find a case for the thing is turning into a fucking campaign of epic proportions!  No one has any in stock, and finding something I like based on pictures on the internet is not how I want to do this.  Preliminary preferences are running to getting this case (http://www.agent18.com/index.cfm?action=product.show&id_category=2ede3f4d-886a-410b-a7b2-1fd6e34765a5&id_product=482bfe1e-da1b-4cba-8e8d-309b7c3725df) for my iPod.  Only thing I don't like is how none of the cases seem to have anywhere to keep the headphones at.  So that's another case/something I need to keep those from turning into a tangled mess inside the purse.

Also got the husband to promise to let me take some of my mad money and buy myself another LCD monitor so that I can really geek out and have two monitors running on my main computer.  I'm so looking forward to doing that just so I can run Photoshop and have all my tools on one screen while I work on the other.

For your handbag. (http://www.tunewear.com/english/product/tetran/)