Gift suggestions…?
Tasty snacks
white chocolate peppermint bark
sugar-coated walnuts or pecans
specialty hot chocolate or neat drink mixes
crispy m&ms
Comics & webcomics
Ex Machina volumes 1 and 3+ (I have 2)
Machall volume 1 (used)
xkcd stuff (posters mostly, maybe a “stand back! Science” tshirt?
Nedroid comics art prints (the travelling robot ones)
Games
Super Mario Galaxy (wii, used w/case is fine)
Wario Ware smooth moves (wii, ditto)
Fun things
interlocking pieces puzzlers- wood or shiny metal, not too hard or easy
mirror rubiks cube
cute robots stuff (ive never found any, but i guess its worth a shot)
Nedroid comics prints! (the awesome robot ones)
Books
general nonfiction books: see below
Doctor Who fanbooks/encylopedia (the new stuff with David Tennant)
Life on Mars fanbooks (except Rules of Policing)
signed zelanzy and asimov fiction books (Pretty common. Good condition, any edition with a neat cover)
DVDs
Doctor Who season 3, 4 if you can find them cheap (but not bootleg- other english regions ok)
Life on Mars season 1,2 (ditto)
Syriana, good movies with john simm in it (maybe his Crime and Punishment if it exists)
Fantastic Children boxset
Books note: books is kinda hard to pin down. I have a long list of science books to read already, but I am looking for good quality general nonfiction. I’m particularly interested in books that discuss things normally thought to be outside science in a science-y way. For example one book I really liked this year was The Design of Everyday Things, a book that discussed how people interact with objects and how product design could be more user-centric.
Some examples of books I have on my to-read list include stuff like: a book on the unintuitiveness of probabilities, a book on how change in parents and teachers attitudes towards children could improve their ability to learn, a book on how people react during disasters and a book about how we like to blame the media for our problems. (These books I can get from the library, so i’m not looking to own them.)
Anyway, if you happen to see a good book you think i’d like, or better yet one you’ve read yourself that you think i’d like, great, but otherwise don’t stress about it!
(Also right now I’m not looking for any science fiction, unless you want to get me a copy of Fire in the Deep or something)
