I feel like a jerk doing this

[mrvelocipede]

Heigh ho, I have a cold. It's not a terribly bad one, thankfully, but it means I'm completely useless for doing anything that requires physical strength or coordination. Instead of printing my Xmas cards, I therefore have been spending the last two days sitting around messing with fractals, and idly surfing the internet in search of things to give people.

Naturally, this mostly results in me finding things I wish I could buy for myself, instead. So I figured it might be useful to make a List of Seasonal Greed, with links, for the benefit of the couple of people who might be thinking of giving me presents. (Sigh. One of whom never reads the internet anymore, while the other has probably already pulled the relevant information out of my browser history when I wasn't looking.)

• Paper marbling supplies


• Round sterling wire, 21 gauge or 22 gauge.


• Rutilated quartz beads (these are pretty much all awesome)


• First surface mirrors


• Iris diaphragm


• 2-inch Rocso Permacolor filters (mainly the cyan one, but yellow, green, and magenta would also be useful—I already have red and blue)


• Any or all of the Wondermark books


• I seem to vaguely remember that there was going to be a box set of the Girl Genuis books, but now I can't find it.


• And of course, there's always P. G. Wodehouse


I also keep thinking about a dapping block and a set of punches, but that one was more or less dependent on having a house, so I could hammer on loud metal things without bothering the neighbors. Bah. Maybe next year?