What did you give YOURSELF for xmas?

[Maxxxie]

Originally Posted by bouv

If you don't mind me askin', how much did you spend?

I got myself computer upgrades that I can't help but thinking I paid too much for.even though I used Pricewatch.com.)

I got a Athlon XP 3200 (with a Soyo Dragon KT-600 mobo), 768 MB of PC3200 RAM, and an nVidia FX 5800. I spent close to $500.

Bear in mind this is in Australian dollars. I paid just over $1700 for the following:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Retail Socket 939
ASUS A8V Deluxe V2 S939 Motherboard
2 x 512MB Geil DDR PC3200 RAM
1.44M Floppy Disk Drive
80GB Seagate 7200rpm HDD 8M Serial ATA
GeXCube 256M Radeon 9800 R360 Video Card
Antec 1080AMG Metallic Gray Case
Pioneer DVR-108 16xDVD DL Burner OEM BLACK

It comes with a three year warranty. The case itself is pretty expensive on its own (a couple hundred dollars). But it is very expandable and easy to get into, well-ventilated and has a dust filter. Nice. For what it's worth, I bought it at Computer Alliance here in Brisbane: www.computeralliance.com.au. The guys there were pretty cluey and did not make the mistake of thinking that me being female means I'm computer-ignorant.

This is the first time I've bought a computer system rather than building it myself from individual components. I'm very pleased with this machine!


Cheers,
Max.

[Paranoid Randroid]

Woo-eee. I woulda killed for a PC this Christmas.

Three things did I - a very wise man - buy myself this Christmas, with other people's money:

A bear built at the Build A Bear Workshop. I have named him Gottfried. More heterosexual, relatively masculine men should have teddy bears to sleep with. They're soft and girls find it irreristable. Well, they're soft, at least, and fuck you if you don't like it. Gottfried and I don't care.

The Wind Waker for my gamecube, as it finally seems to have gone down in price. Purty.

A book on mathematics for economics. This was disappointing, since most of it is material already learned and not difficulty grasped. I was hoping for something meatier.

After I return a couple gifts duplicating stuff I already have, I think I'll get some memory for my new digital camera. Stuff's cheap nowadays.

[Shirley Ujest]

I just bought myself something really cool and totally impulsive from the Asian Market by my mom's.

Some kind of Reflexology Foot thingie that you stand on and it has knobby do-thingies that make your feet hurt because your body weight fat puts pressure on it.

I way over paid for it and I have no idea what it is called as the entire box is in either chinese or heiroglyphics or possibly Fongoo. But, I loves it! It is the first massager thingie that gets at my torn arch muscles to make them stop hurting. Wooooooo hoooooo!


Yeah, it's all adrenaline, I don't farking care. You live with my feet.

[Wile E]

Originally Posted by Cheese Monster

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A bear built at the Build A Bear Workshop. I have named him Gottfried. More heterosexual, relatively masculine men should have teddy bears to sleep with. They're soft and girls find it irreristable. Well, they're soft, at least, and fuck you if you don't like it. Gottfried and I don't care.

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They "fuck you if you don't like it"?

I don't think I'd want one of those teddy bears.

[Mister Rik]

I was at Costco with my mom, looking for presents for my adorable nieces, and I saw that they had some really nice Fila coats on sale. So I picked up a nice new coat to replace the dingy old Air Force parka I had been wearing for years (I got the parka from my dad, who got it from my uncle, who didn't need it because the AF had him in Tucson...)

My new coat is black and red, has a removable liner, a hidden hood in the collar, lots of cool pockets - one for my smokes, one for my gat, a hidden pocket for my wallet, and huge shoplifting pockets on the inside.

[Jenaroph]

I will be finally getting myself a Lava Lamp, because for the third year running nobody took me seriously when I said I wanted one.

[Low Key]

Seeing as I'm half way across the world from anyone I know and don't even have an address the only present I got this year is the one I bought for myself - a car. For the tidy sum of $250 (NZ). It needs a new windshield though. So after all's said and done I'll have spent about $450 on the car. I've never had a car before so I'm quite excited about this. Best present I ever bought myself. And as soon as I take an afternoon off of work this week, I'm off to find some fuzzy dice...

[Sunspace]

I bought myself a spindle of 25 blank DVDs at the back-breaking price of CAD 9.95 plus tax.

However...

...in January I will start taking film-making and video courses (as well as volunteering) at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.

Forward my devious plan to cover the world in Esperanto-language video segments!

[Gadfly]

Originally Posted by Sunspace

Forward my devious plan to cover the world in Esperanto-language video segments!

Wicked, can I play the moose lathe operator?

I'm going to buy myself a ticket to Guelph, to chase after a girl, apparently.

[Tracy Lord]

I spent a few months lurking on eBay and half.com, and scored all seven of Gordon Korman's MacDonald Hall books in their original paperback covers. Childhood nostalgia, ahoy!