Oh, I forgot. Then you can go find a nice wooden frame for one of the 3x5s or 5x7s. This can be easily displayed on his desk (assuming that his future workplace allows such trappings), and everyone will know what a lucky dog he is to have such an attractive and thoughtful girlfriend!
I happen to be very much like your boyfriend in that I don’t like getting presents. I also feel bad returning gifts so I have a closet full of shirts I never, ever wear, a drawer full of sweatshirts, many of them sports team related, none of which will I wear outside the house, as well as a whole slew of other dust collecters in my house.
I’m sure a lot of guys could USE a pedicure, I know I could, but I for one could have played a hobbit in Lord of the Rings without the benefit of additional hair. I’d feel guilty making some one look at those toes for any period of time.
As for sex, if given as a present it should be more than once a year for SURE! Also, aren’t we all being a little presumptious about tsarina’s sexual acitivity level? (Some people do wait for marriage, ya’know.)
As for what to get him, tsarina, he sounds like a geek to me… Dump him and look for a real man (hairy appendages are a good sign of masculinity.
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If she can’t do the sex thing how about a hooker or even two? She can take pictures!
What’s wrong with some nice birthday sex? Nothing like waking up to nekkid woman on top of you…
Take him to his favorite restaurant for dinner, then bring him to a movie he wants to see but hasn’t, then go home, get him nekked, get yourself nekked, make sweet sweaty monkey love, then curl up next to him and purr and call him a greek god.
whipped cream optional.
Iteki beat me to it with the thinkgeek.com recommendation–I was browsing there last night and took care of almost all my winter holiday shopping. Since I don’t think any of my relatives are on this board, here’s what almost everybody is getting:
laser tag tanks!!! You can get him a video camera for the tank separately for bedroom spy maneuvers.
Or if you want both remote controlled tanks and wild sex, bu are on a budget, just rent the film Montenegro: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082770/awards
AHA! I kept wondering where the heck my reply to this thread had disappeared to. Seems a double posted OP got it.
20 year-old heterosexual male here. Geeky? I don’t know, but geeky enough to be posting here at 2 AM.
It seemed for material gifts, PunditLisa had the best suggestions. Don’t get anything mushy or emotional, guys in general don’t like getting that. Especially for his birthday, that’s his day to celebrate him, not to celebrate the two of you as a couple. Get something practical or fun. CDs or DVDs he’d like but doesn’t have - surely by now you have an idea of his taste in music and movies? Sets and anthologies, if you’re willing to spend the money, work very well as gifts. Also your PalmPilot idea was good, and if you just get the latest version (again, if you’re willing to spend the money) you don’t have to worry about any particular model.
Or just make the day fun. Sanscour’s recommendation of dinner he likes, a movie he likes, and raucous sex is a good idea. Add any personal touches you think would be appropriate for him, places he likes to go. Make sure to include the sex though. 
And for the love of God, don’t get him a pedicure.
Leatherman or Gerber tools are nice. I always carry a Leatherman Micra on a 3-inch lanyard linked to an itty-bitty maglight flashlight. It’s the most useful combination I’ve every carried.
Another coworker has two different belt-packed tools he always carries. We call him “Batman”. I think a small tool is more likely to be carried and therefore more frequently useful.
Costco is now selling the combination pack of just these two (~$20) but I thought of it first. 
I’m disappointed in you “geek” Dopers. The obvious choice is computer games. Or maybe an XBox and Knights of the Old Republic. But then, the PC version is coming out later with extra stuff added, so maybe you should wait and get all of them. Or, if you want a cool game you can both play together, get Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance.
A 23 year old geek?
How about some Geranimals?
Since the Palm is within your price-range, might I suggest another gadget that should satisfy the stylish techno-geek within?
The I-pod MP3 player with 10-30 GB of hard-disk space.
The IMO most arousing piece of gadgetry ever created.
But the best presents are the ones he wants, but knows shouldn’t buy, because he can’t justify his purchase to himself. Gadgets tend to be like that ;). If you can’t think of anything he’s been drewling about, maybe you should call some of his friends, and surprise him with your keen eye and insight into his geekdomness.
Someone really needs to alert the Glamour Shots out here. There’s one next door to a restaurant we go to, and we were recently looking at the pictures they had displayed in the window while we waited for a table. Yikes. “Trampy 80s mall-rat” would have been far too flattering. “Trampy aging porno star” was probably the nicest thing you could have said about any of the pictures. I’ve never seen people made to look so hideous.
As for the OP, offer to buy him computer stuff (geeks are always secretly hungering for a faster cpu, better video card or bigger hard drive) or an mp3 player. If he’s into music, the mp3 player is a great idea – I recently got a 20 gig Nomad Zen which I absolutely adore. And of course lots of sex.
Things I’ve gotten that I like:
- Glamour shot of wife. She HATES having her picture made, so this was special.
- Expensive pocket knife. I’m a computer guy, and you wouldn’t believe how often I use it at work. Got a nice small one you can open with one hand.
- A REALLY BIG maglight. Insert joke here. It’s the kind police used to use to beat people up.
- A GOOD pair of shoes. I’d go to walmart myself, these were nice.
- Prepaid trip (airline and hotel tickets). This also can be integrated with the whipped cream, etc., mentioned in earlier posts.
Things I didn’t like:
- Wooden plaque with “funny” slogan related to computer job.
- Book or CD. I like reading and music, but no one can really choose except me.
- Another shirt.
- Anything too-computer-specific. Only I can choose what I might need/want, and I feel guilty returing/exchanging something that my wife spent a lot of time and money acquiring.
And I’d NEVER let a stranger give me a manicure.
If you want to get him computer stuff, go ahead, but you’d be much better off giving him a gift certificate or cash, earmarked “For your computer.” That way, he can buy exactly what he wants. When my parents ask for Christmas present ideas, I always tell them to give me cash. If I want a new video card for my computer, I’m going to want the one I want, not the one computer-illiterate parental units would pick out for me.
Lately, though, I’ve been trying to justify buying the new Indiana Jones DVD boxed set that was released today. Maybe I’ll put it on my Christmas list…
I’m surprised no one else thought of this: He’s a geek, eh? Get him some or all of the Straight Dope books, if he’s into the Straight Dope (can’t believe a red-blooded, pasty-white geek wouldn’t be interested in the Straight Dope)
But I also recomend thinkgeek.com, they have plenty of neat little gadgets.
The Mini-mag+Leatherman is also a good idea, I have essentially the same thing (My knife is a swiss army knife, however) and it is insanely useful.
I’m surprised no one else thought of this: He’s a geek, eh? Get him some or all of the Straight Dope books, if he’s into the Straight Dope (can’t believe a red-blooded, pasty-white geek wouldn’t be interested in the Straight Dope)
But I also recomend thinkgeek.com, they have plenty of neat little gadgets.
The Mini-mag+Leatherman is also a good idea, I have essentially the same thing (My knife is a swiss army knife, however) and it is insanely useful.
Get him a gift card to Electronics Boutique or some other game store, and offer to play whatever game he gets with him.
Since new DVD’s are released all the time there must be some new release that he hasn’t bought yet.
Or buy him a gift card to best buy/ circuit city.
Or go to the halloween store and buy yourself a cheerleader costume and a wig, put them on and then BEG him for sex.