Personal · Giftlist
I have been traditionally quite difficult to buy gifts for; I usually buy what I want for myself, and the things I don't buy are too expensive for anyone to reasonably afford.
With that being said, I am still collating this list so that I know what I want, and for anyone suitably silly with it to be aware. It is incomplete and messy; I'll update it as time passes.
The number one thing I want is time, but that, unfortunately, cannot be bought. If you have a hookup for a hyperbolic time chamber or the box from Primer, let me know!
Art
- Zetterstrand prints; I am partial to the CS ones:
- artbooks
- Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities
- Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type
- Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History
- City of Darkness: Revisited
- Design School: Type: A Practical Guide for Students and Designers
- Futuria: Art of the Sci-Fi Age
- Hyperborea: Stories from the Arctic
- Iconic Transit Maps: The World's Best Designs
- Liam Wong: After Dark
- Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds
- New Page Design: Layout and Editorial Design
- Project UrbEx
- Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 20112021
- Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron
- The Art and Making of Control
- The Art of the Mass Effect Trilogy: Expanded Edition
- The Camera
- The James Bond Archives
- Tokyo Storefronts - The Artworks of Mateusz Urbanowicz
- Waneella: Pixelscapes
- WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives
- Kurisu Makise ~Reading Steiner~: Okay. To be clear, I'm not a figurine guy. Don't put "Philpax is a figurine guy" in the newspaper. I just think this particular one is neat; I love its composition and how well-framed it is.
VR headsets
One of:
Media
- My Steam wishlist
- Switch games (honestly, I'd buy these on Steam, but these editions appear to be Switch exclusives):
Hardware
General
- a record player of some quality; need to do more research on this
- a decent gaming laptop with all-AMD so it has a higher chance of working with Linux
- Switch 2
- a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon 3D printer, or equivalent in quality, polish, and just-work-ism
PC
- RTX 5090 or equivalent. Preferably NVIDIA for their ML features.
- good speakers, preferably with a subwoofer
Server
- another 3090 or 4090. I have two 3090s in there, but more GPUs means more VRAM and more model parallelisation.
- 3x 24+TB hard drives. I need to set up ZFS sooner rather than later.
Misc
- I need Fuji X-mount zoom lenses with autofocus. In order of priority: