Zake's Wish List:
TOC:
General Quality of Life
Books / Reading
Music
Culture
Clothes
Electronics
Bonsai
Yoga
Kitchen
MISC
back burner
already obtained
GENERAL QUALITY
OF LIFE:
Time
Health
Family and Friends
BOOKS / READING:
Life and Death (Elementary Go Series, Vol. 4) by James Davies ISBN
9784871870139, Tokyo, Japan: The Ishi Press, December 1975
The Living Art of Bonsai: Principles & Techniques of Cultivation
& Propagation by Amy Liang; 0-8069-8780-4
Ueki no Te Ire: The Japanese Art of Giant Bonsai, By Eric Mader
$26.03 at http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/ueki-no-te-ire-the-japanese-art-of-giant-bonsai/127050
See my books page for more ideas
MUSIC:
Anne Akiko Meyers playing popular music from a variety of cultures including
Japanese. TTBOOK Wikipedia
CULTURE:
Tickets to MOMA or other Bay Area museums
Tickets to theater in SF
CLOTHES:
Casual slacks / khaki workish but nice pants
"Old Guys'Rule"
shirt
Black heavy-ish cotton pocket T's
Black jeans
Crocs shoes. Good ones in an non-gaudy color
Trendy T's from here
or here
Large Men's Black (or even gray) ToeSox w/ non-slip sole from toesox.com
- got one pair of these Jan '09, comfy. Update: they have some holes, got
a second pair!
philosomatika T-shirt
ELECTRONICS:
Medium to large HD screen. Not neccessilly flat, but obviously not supper
bulky/thick either. OLED would be nice. Great skintones, no re-fresh artifacts,
true blacks, low power an important criteria too.
WII: WII Fit, ...
Server box. Low power use, very low noise (large slow fans
in rubber grommets), multi-core fast CPU, huge RAM (for VMWare guests), bunch
of fast drives, dual power supplies, dual NICs.
1TB (or higher or expandable) NAS storage device. Quiet,
low power, user serviceable, RAID 5 or better fault tolerance
Lftek CXS 2200 (IP camera)
iHome iP1 Studio Series iPod and iPhone dock. 100 watt MSRP $270. (Don't
really need this, but it is sweet!)
BONSAI:
- Bonsai Tools
- Makita GD0800C 1/4" Die Grinder (6.6A, variable speed, No Load Speed 7,000 - 28,000 RPM, 3.7 pounds)
- Bonsai Pots
- Bonsai Trees!
- Bonsai Books
- Bonsai: Its Art, Science, History and Philosophy by Deborah R. Koreshoff
ISBN: 0881923893
- (iBonsai iPhone apps)
YOGA:
Being Yoga Classes ?! (ten class card,
month unlimited, (one year half Yogi plus Yogini))
Yoga blocks
Funky hemp or cotton yoga pants
Astrological amulet armlet (bracelet) in silver and copper (I think?)
Singing Bowls
- all seven (7) charkas in the small size in silicon fabrication quartz for
only $1100 from Conway
of Asia in Carmel by the Sea (few years ago)
KITCHEN:
Bread maker!
In kitchen (or backyard) DIY composter. Needs to be low mantinance and low
odor.
Peanut butter mixer from witmerproducts.com
- I think the model 100 would do quite nicely!
MISC:
Standard Waterstone 3 Stone Set
Pasily and/or other stylin' patterned duct tape
PocketToolX | Pocket Tools & Multi Tools | BREWZER - /pockettoolx.com/products/brewzer
Tkaro Water Bottle
Car Talk iPhone app ?
Car Talk car songs CD set
A bunch of the stuff (not all) from here: thinkgeek.com
Hammock - needs to be one of those with the stand thing so you don't have to
string it up
Pretty much anything from here: ...eff.org/shop
Back Burner Items:
Bright yellow functional cycling jacket
Rolleiflex af 5.0, red. At maybe $100 or less, I'll have to take a look in
some months or year on eBay/CL/etc. (posted 8/09)
Blu-ray player (even just a cheap Blu-ray with 1080p and up convert feature
would be okay). Wifi and lets you stream NetFlix, maybe too?
Roku box for NetFlix etc.
Netbook or sub-laptop, but with a full size keyboard
and good vertical resolution (This is kind of depreciated
as the iPhone sort of functions as a micro PC) One nice choice was the
Asus Eee PC 901 (or whatever the current screen size is) - Linux version if
for about $200. Webcam and bluetooth reqd'.
A Hieronymus Bosch coffee table book of his painting etc.
Champion 2000 masticater (juicer)
Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff
Zafu meditation pillow
camera. ~>5MP. Good optical zoom. Nice screen. Very easy to use.
Bluetooth
Retro Handset
Bluetooth earpiece - lightweight, easy to charge, has comfortable
over-ear thing
Softball Glove - for playing catch with Nastasja
Mathmos Astro Light Charms - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/9913/
- Bulb blue $6.99 - CANCLED: Don't work on the iPhone
Ralph Waldo Emerson books
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
- Jill Bolte Taylor - ISBN 1430300612 - (on books
page)
Kabir: Ecstatic Poems - Robert Bly - Robert Bly has re-translated
some of the work of a fifteenth century poet-saint from India, Kabir; Kabir
often writes about the soul's longing for the divine. (TTBOOK) 0807063843
- (on books page)
Subscription to Yoga Journal Magazine
Small in-ear high-ish quality noise dampening headphones with
mic etc. for use with iPhone
Roomba vacuum - got one off woot! (doesn't
have the auto-timer but is way cool)
(This is kind of depreciated as the iPhone sort of functions
as a micro PC) Asus Eee PC 901 (or whatever the current screen size is)
- Linux version. Actually got one off woot, it's coming 6/2/09!