Wish List:

People sometimes want to get me a gift, but are at a loss for ideas. This page is my remedy.

Potential Gifts:
• Unintended Consequences by John Ross
• An adapter & power supply to connect & access IDE (aka PATA or ATAPI) hard drives via USB or FireWire. Should handle both standard-sized IDE connectors and, either natively or via an adapter, the smaller laptop-sized IDE drives. I don't have any particular model in mind, but I've seen such for prices wildly ranging $9-$62.
• A decent, programmable electronic chess clock capable of handling modern time controls with Bronstein delay, Fischer bonus time, multiple time periods, etc.. E.g, the Excalibur chess clock, or the Duel Timer
• The expansion The Eastern Realm for the game The Settlers: Rise of an Empire. This game, though not amazing, was kind of fun to play, and I wouldn't mind playing it's expansion. Note however, that the expansion was not released separately in the US, only Europe, but the "Gold Edition" contains the expansion.

There I things that I just don't want to get as gifts. Things I have enough of to last a lifetime already, or at least several years worth, or things I just don't want.

Anti-wishes:
• Shirts, including t-shirts
• Socks
• Underwear
• Aftershave/cologne
• Knives
• Expansion packs to Civilization 4. I've been playing the Civilization series for a couple of decades now, and I think Civ3 is the best. Civ4 has a prettier interface, and some of it's gameplay changes are nice improvements, but somehow the overall gameplay experience I found to be lacking. Not sure what exactly the problem is, but I'm not interested in delving deeper into the Civ4 experience via it's several expansion packs.

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