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#98452 5-Dec-2007 23:07

A spindle of 500 Dvd-rs.
anti-static wrist bands are for 'wannabe' geeks. 'True' geeks rub their components on carpet.

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#98453 5-Dec-2007 23:12

Hmm... dvd's are so old now fos... I mean with flash drives for any files that need moving, and ipods/mp3/mp4 players for music and videos that need playing who needs dvds? Next idea please...

One great thing about xmas though, everything becomes much cheaper around this time :)

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#98468 6-Dec-2007 07:42

A quad-core CPU. Water-cooling. A "command centre" in their mom's basement.

I thought stuff was usually cheaper during Boxing Day sales?

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#98487 6-Dec-2007 09:55

Digital photo frame will be my geek toy this xmas

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#98506 6-Dec-2007 11:08

19 days!

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#100542 17-Dec-2007 22:20

8 days intill xmas!....

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#100580 18-Dec-2007 08:02

My wife has announced she has bought the present I am giving her. I guess she doesn't trust me.

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#100695 18-Dec-2007 16:30

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#100697 18-Dec-2007 17:06

A week to go!

I cant wait till go to town this weekend, Its going to be so fun

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#100714 18-Dec-2007 18:23

Geek toys for me, include (but not limited to) new 22" LCD wide screen; sandisk mp3 player 2gb (can add extra cards in); another hdd (only 160gb, soo last year); new computer case with handy water cooling ports in back; possibly a new water cooling system; maybe a laptop (fingers crossed).

So who wants to buy me this stuff?

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 4x 2GB Adata 1066+ DDR2, Sapphire HD4850 X2 2GB GDDR3 PCI-E Quad DVI, 1000w PSU & over 4TB HDD space, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
PS3 Slim

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#100742 18-Dec-2007 20:28

I used to buy my own prez from hubby, got fed up with waiting until February... Then the girls used to drag him out to buy me something but they are in Aussie this time of year... He has heard my pleas for an overseas magazine subscription. YAY!!!

Does anyone know where to find a gadget to keep Princess'es tail out of my screen while she blocks the vents on the monitor? You would think she would get too hot but oh well, it's christmas time. That means cooler weather, doesn't it?

Back to grinching - The street advertiser/noise pollution artist has been very quiet. No blaring pretend carols... (Anyway, the boss threatened to cut the wires to the speaker above his shop and I have called noise control on them when the CD was stuck at high volume for several hours...... It worked.)

BTW - We have secret orb santa. If you have seen the clued up orb guy saying 'whatever' with a date on it you now know why. I seem to be winning the race to find him, we get lollies etc. Yesterday I won a Santa hat.

Somebody please say something else........

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#100836 19-Dec-2007 12:39

mobygeek:
Does anyone know where to find a gadget to keep Princess'es tail out of my screen while she blocks the vents on the monitor? You would think she would get too hot but oh well, it's christmas time. That means cooler weather, doesn't it?

Certainly can; it's called a DOG (another acronym for you Moby, it stands for Daisy Oi Get-the-cat-outa-da-way!!) and there's a picture of it beside this post.

We have two of these devices, but our cat clever Milton has already sussed them out. Possible side effects of DOG ownership:

Puke on the carpet
Puke in the car
Poos on the carpet
Barking
Hair and sand everywhere (after said devices have visited the beach)
Canine flatulence

But we love them really!!

Remember, a dog is not just for Christmas - if it's big enough there's ususally some left for boxing day!!?!

Now based in Perth WA.

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#100844 19-Dec-2007 13:43

Wakeup: I cant wait till go to town this weekend, Its going to be so fun

Are you in Auckland? If so, I was in town the weekend before Christmas last year. Everyone is away in Coromandel, bars are empty, atmosphere just sucks.

Sorry to ruin it for you

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#100845 19-Dec-2007 13:45

New toy this week for xmas is a LinkSys WAP200 so we can add another house to our network - house is over back fence and across street :)

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#100948 20-Dec-2007 00:51

5 Days to go.

Santa has been pretty laxed for the last 30 years.

Still a Eee PC would be nice, but I think I'll get a LCD screen, to save some power.

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