I want to put a police scanner in my car, complete with the big aerial on the roof. In fact, I may do that this summer.
-Andrew L
A lightmill. No good reason, they just look cool. 
And they have some neat and rather subtle physics behind them.
What’s a lightmill? Is that the same as a radiometer?
I really want a Van de Graff generator. And that device which has two wires sticking up, and a discharge arc travels up between the wires. (What do you call those anyway?)
I want one of these so bad it hurts.
I want a dollhouse. An historic Brooklyn brownstone replica with a gaslight in fromt and a carriage house and tin ceilings and miniture tiffany fixtures and tiny antique furniture.
And a green laser pointer.
I want a t-shirt that says “I don’t believe in your magical sky pixie”.
But I don’t want a laser pointer. Is that so wrong?
I am on a run of indulging myself in some not-exactly-necessary purchases.
My latest, yesterday- a Dolby Surround Theater in a box.
Some day soon, if the day arrives when I can watch the Simpsons on HDTV, I will want an HDTV. I actually want one now, but even I can’t manage to justify it to myself, since there’s not a sinlgle program that I want broadcast in HDTV.
I take all my high-tech purchasing cues from Homer. If he wants it, I have it!
(Except for the mobile home)
I want two things:
(1) a pet TOUCAN bird-they are beautiful, but I understand they are not happy in captivity-owning a bird that isn’t happy would make me unhappy
(2) a solid 18KT gold ROLEX watch-anybody have one of these-are they comfotable to wear?
There’s this thing they advertise on late night TV, which is an attachment for your garden hose that you can use to blast leaves out of your gutters with super-strong stream of water.
We don’t even have gutters, or a garden hose, but I want this anyway. It just looks so neat.
I’ve always wanted a soda vending machine
Nice rims for my Passat. Tasteful, not flashy or “ghetto.”
A GeForce 4 video card.
Lutron remote control light dimmers.
A green laser pointer.
A heated towel rack.
A Sirius satelite radio receiver.
A moster dick so enormous, women will faint at its sight.
An old Western Electric dial telephone.
Becuase what I really need in life is more makeup and perfume.
Chanel eye shadow in Sphinx
Chanel bronzer powder in Mirage
Bobbi Brown Gel Eyeliner in Sepia
Guerlain Nahema perfume
Guerlain Mahora perfume
Maybelline Moisturewhip Lipstick in Hot Hot Hot
That fridge does look pretty darn cool.
Oh … and one of those Russian wrist watches, too.
I want a hamburger, no a cheeseburger. I want a hot dog. I
want a milkshake. I want potato chips.
I want an apartment in Knoxville.
I want a green laser pointer.
I want a George Foreman Grill thing, even though I’d never use it.
And I want a gameboy advance even though I haven’t seen any games for it that I want.
ooh, and a new vacuum cleaner.
I have so much useless stuff right now, I have to make myself stop buying every little thing that catches my fancy.
But, I really really want a green laser pointer. And not just that, I also want one of those turbo-jet lighters that shoots a green flame. And I don’t even smoke!
This remote control.
And this paddle game. Just the remote control and and paddle game, and that’s all I want.
And this chair . . .
I forgot: I have only ever seen one informercial in my life. Being green to the ways of informercials I was caught off-guard and with my defenses down.
I now have a lifelong desire for a cooking thing that keeps cooking for hours even when you take it off the hob.
I was just wondering earlier today if they actually made these. Now I REALLY want one.
Eighteen hundred bucks? Crap.
I guess I’ll have to settle for the green laser pointer.
[Homer] Mmmm… Green laser pointer![/Homer]
Want me one o’ them. And a blue one too.
They say you can put a visible spot on low clouds with a green pointer.
I have plenty of red ones.
And I built my own working lightsaber outta plumbing tubing, lexan tubing and Electroluminecent wire. But I broke it dueling.
Poop.
I geek therefore I am.
A winning ticket to a 50 million lottery.
Norm Abrams’ workshop in my backyard.
A green laser pointer. I have a red one.
A decent bottled ice tea that is not too sweet and NO LEMON!!!