Tim Connors' Wishlist

Wishes indeed. All way too expensive, but maybe there is a generous billionaire out there....

BTW, my bird-day is 15th April.

• Books (please don't buy from Amazon, because they are evil.)
  • Leslie Lamport LaTeX : A Documentation Preparation System User's Guide and Reference Manual
  • And the LaTeX companion
  • Any good Perl reference books
  • Press, Flannery, Teukolsky and Vetterling Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing
  • "Fortran 2003 explained".
  • An galactic astronomy reference (text book) book - probably Mihalas & Binney
• Non-books
  • geek T-shirts (mind you, not the corny ones) - eg http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5aa9.shtml and http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/374d.shtml or http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/323b.shtml
  • Some geek toys. Something like this would be *fantastic*.
  • Flourescent Desklamps
  • Desklamps with a magnifiying glass and aligator clips (hint - I think Dick Smith sell something like this)
  • Jazz CD's - I don't know what kind, other than perhaps fairly modern, brassy, not many vocals. And cello concertos and concertos for double-bass.
  • More specifically:
    • Dirty three:
      • I know I like "Ocean Songs".
      • I know I like "Sad and dangerous". Haven't heard other CDs - most probably like them too.
    • Miles Davis:
      • I've got Bitches Brew, and Live around the World, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud and Kind of Blue
    • Fourplay (that is the Australian band, not the rather arrogant sounding American band.:
      • I know I like what I've heard. Haven't heard overly much yet
  • Iron Maiden - I don't have any of their cd's, and no idea whether I like them all
  • Bike accessories. I've got quite a specific list that keeps on changing. Pester me if you want...
  • A scooter (Vespa) or a real motorbike. I soooo want one of these ;) I promise not to kill myself (unless the donor wants me dead ;)