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Irv
- Books (not necessarily in order of preference)
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)by Dmitry Orlov
- The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy (Paperback)
by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Maria Mies
- Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook by Crescent Dragonwagon
- Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murph
- Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables by Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel
Lately, I have been reading a series of detective mysteries by Ellis Peters, about a 12th century Benedictine monk (Brother Cadfael) who solves mysteries. There are 20 books in the series and I have about half of them.
Here is the list (the ones with stars after them I don't yet have):
- A Morbid Taste For Bones
- One Corpse too Many
- Monk's Hood
- Saint Peter's Fair
- The Leper of St. Giles***
- The Virgin in the Ice
- The Sanctuary Sparrow
- The Devil's Novice
- Dead Man's Ransom***
- The Pilgrim of Hate***
- An Excellent Mystery
- The Raven in the Foregate
- The Rose Rent***
- The Hermit of Eyton Forest
- The Confession of Brother Haluin
- The Heretic's Apprentice
- The Potter's Field
- The Summer of the Danes
- The Holy Thief***
- Brother Cadfael's Penance***
Many of these are not currently available as single books,but can be had from Amazon in "omnibus" volumes containing three of the stories each. But don;t be held back if I've already got one of the three. Or you may find some of them, as I have, in used book stores.
- Oven Stuff
- A set of fireplace tongs
- A set of welder's gloves
- Large Folding Knife (know affectionately as Dad's pocket machete)
- This summer I lost the Gerber Gator knife that Dan and Katelyn gave me a few years ago. It doesn't seem like it is going to turn up, and I am lost without it.
That particular knife, a Gerber Gator with a straight (not serrated blade) is OK and available at Canadian Tire, but Kershaw makes another nice one that cost less and can be had at the Knife Center. With shipping it might come out ot about the same amount.
Kersaw Lockback at Knife Center
Late breaking news: I finally found my large folding knife. But the handle is getting pretty chewed up, so the Kershaw lockback would still make a good gift.
- Clocks/watches that don't need electircity or batteries
- A pocket watch, manual wind, they also make them self winding. Durability is more important than fancy looks
- A wind up wall clock
- Inexpensive Lee Valley gadgets:
Lee Valley Tools **Drill/Countersink System (any one of the three below would be good, but I've listed them in order of priority)
I have the one for #8 screws ones, but the #6 one would be good (first [priority), or the #10 one (second priority):
- for #6 screws: 50J03.36, $18.50
- for #10 screws: 50J03.40, $18.50
- Robertson Drive bit set, 19J20.03, $8.90
- some extra long drill bits in the size range from 1/8" to 1/2". I have seen them at Home Depot.
- A compass, the type you use when orienteering:
I found my old compass, which is a pretty basic one, but the fluid in it has gone all milky ( you can hardly see the needle) so I do need a new one:
Canadian Tire sells the Suntoo ones, and even the most basic orienteering type of compass, would be fine. I'll put a part number in here soon.
- Items from the Knife Center
- A short, bright lens for my Canon Rebel XT. I'll get the part number soon.
- First Edition SF books:
- Ursula K Leguin: The Telling, the Disposessed
- Samuel R. Delany: Babel 17
- Heinlein: Glory Road, Time Enough for Love
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Carolynn
I'm terrible at making lists. Everyone who knows me knows what I like. I will think of somethings to put on the list soon. Here is some of my thoughts:
Common, there's got to be more stuff you want! from Dan
Any Micheal Keaton Movie on DVD
You should really, really post lists of the ones you already have. -Dan
Since I'm growing my hair long again; barrettes would be nice
Hot roller set
I'm also pretty sure you wimped out and cut your hair - Dan.
Lee Valley:
Stainless Steel Kitchen Shears 45K45.01
Books:
The Wind from Hastings by Morgan Llywelyn
Some Aprons
A new address book
Clothes
Shirts size 16
pants size 14
Board games
Risk2210, etc.
Girls Please note: I like really wild nail polish and semi wild eye shadows.
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Adriene
in no particular order
Check our page for the movies we already have
- Marilyn Monroe Dvds
- Small Town Girl (Janet Gaynor) DVD
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers DVD
- Shall We Dance DVD (Ginger Rogers)
- Hold Your Man DVD (Jean Harlow)
- The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer DVD
- Pocketful of Miracles DVD (Bette Davis)
- Anne of a Thousand Days DVD
- Lady and the Tramp DVD
- Jem Seasons 1,2 & 3 DVD
- Thundercats seasons 2 and up DVD
- My Little Pony Season 1 DVD
- Rocky & Bullwinkle All Seasons DVD
- She-ra season 3 and up dvd
From Hammacher Schlemmer http://www.hammacher.com
- Tabletop Wooden Sudoku Game Item 73312
From Lee Valley
- Victorian Lamp Holder 17K27.01
- Victorian Plant Stand PD250?
From http://www.shadesofclay.com
- Primary Sculpting Tool Item #21119
- Kato Liquid Polyclay Clear Medium 8oz (60ml) Item 14410
- Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments Series 3 Item #40550
- Lumiere Halo & Jewel Colours Exciter Pack Item #40631
- Lumiere & Neopaque Exciter Pack Item #40630
or anything else at this site
from http://www.pmcsupply.com/
- not sure what just starting out
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Ryan
- King of the Hill DVD seasons 6 up
- Loony Toons DVD Seasons 3 and up
- Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Home DVD
- A Night At the Opera DVD (Marx Brothers)
- Bachelor Mother DVD (Ginger Rogers)
- Murder By Death DVD (Peter Sellers)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner DVD (Bette Davis)
- muppets season 4 and up
- james bond movie check our page for the ones we have
From Hammacher Schlemmer http://www.hammacher.com
- Tabletop Photo Studio Item 73033
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Michael
In most to least wanted order, in each category
- Music CD:
- Stratovarius - Destiny
- Iron Maiden - Brave New World
- Iron Maiden - Dance of the Dead
- Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
- The New Apocalyptica CD (not sure what its called)
- DVD:
- TV Series
- Battlestar Galatica (the new series season 2 and on)
- Movies:
- Anime:
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (I have volumes 1 - 3 (episodes 1-12) of season 1, not the movies please)
- Stellvia of the Universe (I have Vol 1, episodes 1-4)
- Fafner of the Azure: Dead Aggressor (I have volume 1 (episodes 1-4))
- Haibane-Renmei (I have volume 1 (episodes 1-4))
- The Vision of Escaflowne (the tv series, I already have the movie)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (the TV series; I have episodes 1-8 and the movies)
- Argento Soma (I don't have any of it)
- Appleseed (I have Appleseed Ex Machina)
- Books:
- Akira (I have volumes 1 & 2)
- Neon Gensis Evangelion (I have volumes 1-6)
- Appleseed (I have volumes 1-3)
- X/1999 (I have volumes 1-5)
- The Visions of Escaflowne (I have volumes 1-4 and 7)
- Black Magic (I don't have it)
- Games:
- Board & Card:
- RPG:
- Mage: The Awakening by White Wolf Games
- Changeling: The Lost by White Wolf Games
- Battletech:
- TRO:3039 by Catalyst Game Labs
- Total Warfare by Catalyst Game Labs
- Tech Manual by Catalyst Game Labs
- Battletech: Clan Box Set (when it finally comes out)
- Tactical Operations by Catalyst Game Labs
- Strategic Operations by Catalyst Game Labs
- Modeling Paint & Supplies (Dan knows the good brands)
- I'm not sure if they still make these, but if you can find them any of the 4 Battlemech mini box sets would be nice.
- Other Stuff:
Shay
- In order of most wanted to would like to have.
- Books
- Business Books
- Business Plans for Canadians for Dummies by Nada Wagner, Paul Tiffany and Peter D. Peterson
- Guerilla Marketing, 4th Edition by Jay Conrad Levinson
- Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
- Guerilla Marketing on the Internet by Jay Conrad Levinson
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott
- Canadian Small Business Kit for Dummies by Margaret Kerr and JoAnn? Kurtz
- Bookkeeping for Canadians for Dummies by Lita Epstein and Cecile Laurin
- Visual Merchandising by Tony Morgan
- Retail Business Kit for Dummies by Rick Segel
- Hypnosis Books
- Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors by D. Hammond
- Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy by Allen
- Persuasion Skills Black Book by Rintu Basu
- Coaching with NLP by Joseph O'Connor and Andrea Lages
- Lee Valley
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Dan
For any clothes I'm currently wearing XXL.
- A ridiculous crazy amount of things that no one can afford to buy me.
Boardgames
- Settlers of Catan: City & Knights 5-6 player expansion
- Settlers of Catan: Traders and Barbarians and the 5-6 players expansions
- Expansions to Zombies: (all can be found here: Awesome
- Zombies!!! 2 Zombie Corps(e) Second Edition [That's the military base one, Super zombies. Oh yeah, the super Zombies glow in the dark too. I love shit that glows in the dark. Seriously, if I ever get famous as a guitarist I'll pay DR ridiculous amounts of money to make glow in the dark strings.]
- Zombies!!! 3.5 Not Dead Yet [This is simply a card expansion. But more cards is awesome]
- Zombies!!! 4: The End Second Edition [It adds zombie dogs. As well as new winning objectives. It is also stand-alone and as such can be played by itself...but fuck that noise.]
- Zombies 5: Schools Out Forever SECOND EDITION [This is slightly amusing as school technically is out forever as I'm a 2 time college graduate...but I'm a teacher. It introduces gut tokens. Extra event cards. Good stuff.]
- Zombies 6: Six Feet Under [It adds sewers. One of the weaker expansions...but that's like saying Joe Satriani is a weaker guitarist than Steve Vai}
- Zombies 6.66: Fill in the ________!!! [It's nothing more than blank cards. Which Dad could in theory make for free. But you should support good companies. They're rare nowadays.
- Zombies!!! 8: Jailbreak [The rules for this aren't posted online so I'm not quite sure. But one of the cards is called "Don't Drop the Soap" so I'm going to assume it maintains all the tounge-in-cheek humour of the rest of them. I'm not sure if it is completely compatiable with Send In the Clowns as is says something about starting out in the Mental ward. But the universal rules could be applied to other games. Needless to say it would be silly to buy the 8th expansion before others. Especially since the other expansions do have all the rule posted online so I know what they're all about. Plus GLOW IN THE DARK AND FUCKING CLOWN ZOMBIES!]
- You can also buy bags of various zombies types. Like Glow in the dark Zombies or Glow in the Dark zombie. Did I mention that everything that glows in the dark is instantly awesome?
- Music
A list of bands that kick a ridiculous amount of ass follows. Cds I already own will be marked in brackets(), Cds that I desire more than others are marked in square brackets[]
There's a lot of music I listen to that's not on here, so if you don't want to buy any of this shoot me an e-mail and I'll throw some more band names at you.:
- Black Label Society (Hangover Music Vol. VI) [Mafia, Blessed Hellride], Only Mafia or earlier albums...Zakk hasn't aged well...
- Dragonforce (Inhuman Rampage, Ultra Beatdown) [The Re-mastered verisons of Valley of the Damned and Sonic Firestorm, not the original ones.]
- Iron Maiden(Number of the Beast, Live After Death, Piece of Mind,Fear of the Dark, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, A Matter of Life and Death)[Dance of Death, Brave New World, Iron Maiden, Killers]
- Children of Bodom
- Kamelot
- Megadeth(Countdown to Extinction, Rust in Peace, Peace Sells...but Who's Buying?, United Abominations)
- ManoWar (The Triumph of Steel) [Gods of War, Fighting the World, Warriors of the World]
- In Flames (Clayman, Come Clarity)
- Dream Theater(Train of Thought, Systematic Chaos) [Octavarium]
- Micheal Angelo Batio [Hands Without Shadows]
- Bruce Dickinson (Chemical Wedding) [Tyranny of Souls]
- Steve Vai [Passion and Warfare, Real Illusions: Reflections, Sex and Religion] (Sound Theories)
- Joe Satriani (Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock)
- Ygnwie Malmsteen [Rising Force]
- Opeth (The Roundhouse Tapes)
- Power Quest (Master of Illusion)
- Firewind
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Symphony X [The Odyssey, Paradise Lost]
- Iron Savoir
- Edguy [Savage Poetry the 2002 version, Rocket Ride, Hellfire Club) Possibly my favourite band ever. Seriously...Somebody buy me Hellfire Club...
- Heavenly
- Primal Fear
- Sabaton
- Savatage - "Handful Of Rain," "Wake of Magellan," "Dead Winter Dead" and "Poets and Madmen" only please. Their older stuff...is questionably in quality.
- Tenacious D [Self-titled]
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra [Beethoven's Last Night] That's it, I don't want any of their christmas albums...Mom on the other hand...
- Angra [Rebirth, Temple of Shadows]
- Avantasia (Metal Opera Part 2) This is a side project of Edguy's Singer. As such it kicks unblieveable amounts of ass.
- Blind Guardian [Imaginatons from the Other Side, Nightfall on Middle Earth]
- Freedom Call
- Storm Warrior
- Cacophony
- Marty Friedman [Loudspeaker]
- Heavenly
- Rage
- Rebellion
Bands in colours, obviously, I want more than other, but anything on the list is 110% awesome as fuck.
- Band Clothing T-shirts or long-sleeved shirts.
- I have plently of Maiden stuff. Dragonforce too!
- Musical Equipment:
- Tung Sol 12AX7 tubes. Best high gain tubes going down right now. My 5150 uses 5.
- Morely Power Wah.
- Damage Control Pedals http://damagecontrolusa.com/products/demonizer/ (the button to creat links disappeared?):
- 2 ESP Arming Adjuster. A floating Trem Stablizer that works just as well (or better according to some people) as the Ibanez Backstop and 2 of them cost less than 1 Ibanez Backstop. Find them here: http://www.ibanezrules.com/parts.htm
- Hot Hand Effects(Available from Amazon)
- Hot Hand Guitar Wah Wah
- Hot Hand Wireless Adapter
- Recording Gear:
- Rode NT5?. Come in pairs. My mic of choice for overhead drums/cymbal micing. Killer sound.
- Rode NT1A?. Great for vocals or acoustic instruments. Large Diaphramed condensor
- AKG C4000B?. Best mic for it's price. Multipattern selectable, bass roll, and a pad. It's good for everything but stuff that has really high SPL. I use it for guitars too.
- AT4040?. Great for recording pretty much anything. Really silkly high end and a great noise floor. It too has a bass roll of and a pad.
- Audio Technica ATM25?. I love this mic for kick drums. Really punchy and a huge sound. Hypercardioid pattern so you don't have to worry about bleeding too much either. Can handle crazy SPL level.
- Shure SM-57. I have one of these. You can never have enough. As well as being almost indestructible it is the mic of choice for heavy guitars and snare drums. It also works well on toms. It's just a really good mic.
- Sennheiser 421. Combine this with a SM-57 on a guitar cab with the aforementioned C4000B? and you get a great sound. Blend that fucker and you can get everything from reggie to tech death metal.
- Books
- Men Are Better Than Women by Dick Masterson
- The entire "Ender" Series by Orson Scott Card: (I have Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide)
- Children of the Mind
- Ender's Shadow
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Shadow Puppets
- Shadow of the Giant
- A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
- The "Witcher" series. I'm going to post all of them (minus the 2 I own, "The Last Wish" and "Blood of Elves") but they haven't all been translated into English Yet. I'm posting them in Series Order.
- The Sword of Destiny (Short Story Collection, much like "The Last Wish"). Not Translated yet
. I'm not sure if any of these ones have been translated or not.
- Times of Contempt
- Baptism of Fire
- The Swallow's Tower
- Lady of the Lake
Instructional Books:
- Metal Rhythm Guitar Vol 2 by Troy Stetina
- Metal Lead Guitar Vol 2 by Troy Stetina
- The Ultimate Scale Book by Troy Stetina
- The Ultimate Barre Chord Guide by Troy Stetina
- Rock Disipline by John Petrucci (This book goes with the DVD)
- The Exercise Book by Adam Kadmon (It's part of the Guitar Grimoire series, it's the green one)
- The Guitar Grimoire - A Notated Intervallic Study of Scales by Adam Kadmon (An ugly orangey/yellowy colour)
- The Rhythm Guitar Book by Adam Kadmon (Again, part of the Guitar Grimoire Series, It's an ugly shade of blue)
- Guitar Player Repair Guide: 3rd edition by Dan Erlewine (I have the 2nd edition but This one is even more crazy!)
- How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great!: The Electric Guitar Owner's Manual by Dan Erlewine
- Intelli-Shred Book & CD by Kevin Dillard
- Build Your Own Electric Guitar: Complete Instructions and Full-Size Plans by Martin Oakham
- Electric Guitar Construction: A Guide for the First-Time Builder by Tom Hirst
- Guitar Finishing Step-By-Step By Dan Erlewine and Don MacRostie? This can be had on Amazon but it cost more new in US dollars than it does to buy it from Steward MacDonald? new in Canadian dollars...I'm not sure what Amazon is smoking...
- Fret Work Step By Step By Dan Erlewine
Tools Now colour coded by mom's request
- C-clamps, U-clamps, pretty much all kinds of clamps in very large numbers
- I need some sort of respirator, ear protectors and safetly glasses. Many of the woods used in guitar building are less than pleasant to the body.
- Pretty much anything from Stewart-MacDonald?. Some specifics to follow:
Basic stuff to make a nice guitar:
- Precision Router Set (not the base, it doesn't included everything to make it awesome).
- Essential Fretting Tool Kit
- Fret Slotting Miter Box
- Essential Nut Making Tool Kit
- 8" Wooden Radius-sanding Blocks in 16" and 20" radius
- Stikit Gold Paper Self-adhesive Abrasive in all grits
- Router Bit For Hot Rod Truss Rods
- Tuner Drill Jigs, 6-in-line (2069)
- Collet for Dremel both the 3/32" and 1/8"
- Bradpoint Drillbits
More specialised stuff to fancy up a guitar:
- Aluminum Radius-sanding Beam
- Carbide Downcut Inlay Router Bits. Set of 5 please.
- DVDs?
- Wall-e
- Rock Discipline by John Petrucci.
- Dexter. Seasons 2,3 and 4!
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. All seasons.
- Homicide: Life on the Street All Seasons
- Penn & Teller: Bullshit. (I have Season 6)
- The Boondocks. All seasons.
- Oz. All Seasons.
- Alien Quadrilogy(I have the first one)
- Terminator Special Edition Trilogy
- The Guitar Grimoire DVD Series Volume 1, 2 and 3. Matches the 3 books I already have.
- How I Met Your Mother
- House, M.D. (I season 2)
- South Park (I have season 10.)
- Clone High DVD (there's only one season)
- Futurama (I have season 1)
- MASH
- Corner Gas (I have season 1)
- Who's Line Is It Anyways?
- Metalocalpyse (I have season 1&2)
- Chuck (I have season 1)
- Merlin
- Lie To Me
- My name is Earl (all seasons)
- 3rd Rock From The Sun
- Fraiser
- Get Smart
- Blazing Saddles
- Evil Dead Trilogy
- Office Space
- Men of Honour
- Think Geek Stuff Really cool shit
Clothes:
- Power Symbol shirt
- T-Qualizer Shirt
- Binary People Shirt
- you are dumb v1.0 shirt
- Capsaicin Molecule shirt
- Invisible Ninja shirt
- Your Ringtone Sucks
- The Dice Are Trying to Kill Me shirt
- Shirt of Smiting shirt
- Han Shot First shirt
- 42 Work Shirt
- The ThinkGeek? Power Tie
Geek Toys
- Tagball - Indoor Paintball Simulator
- Lifesize Office Warrior Weapons...all of them! Including the shield!
Gadgets
- LED Umbrella in Red
- Dynaflex Powerball Gyroscope
- LED Faucet Lights Blue/Red version
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