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Gifts For Web Geeks
There are only a few more shopping days left. If you have a web geek in your life and are still wondering what to get them, I’ve compiled a wish list by asking my fellow web geeks at FutureNow what they want:
The list of favorite things we would want as gifts:
1. iPod Touch
2. A day of Helli skiing or Cat skiing.
3. Old-school snowsuit so you can feel like you’re a kid again.
4. New snowboarding boots- Women’s size 7 please (not for me, of course).
5. Educational toys like a Marshmallow Shooter.
6. Nikon D90 – shoot pictures and video on a DSLR – Cool! (I received a D60 for father’s day, just before this came out, but happy to upgrade).
7. Ed Hardy t-shirts- X-Small (again, not for me – XXL shirts for Jeffrey, who wears Tall, and me)
8. A Bacon scarf – for the geek who loves food (is this kosher?)
9. An Audible.com gift certificate.
10. iMuffs MB220 Wireless Headphones
11. A vacation anywhere – so we can disconnect for a while (keep the wi-fi far away).
12. Vinturi Essential Wine Aerator
13. A. G. Russell Italian Wine Steward’s Tool
14. Fly Stick Van de Graaff Levitation Wand
15. MX-1 World’s Smallest R/C Copter
16. A Cardscan (now for the Mac) – for all those business cards we collect.
17. Rock Band 2 for Xbox 360 or Wii
18. A MacBook Pro – Once you go Mac, you never go back.
20. Pure Digital Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder
If you are feeling generous, feel free to send us something. Our address is here. 
If you are a web geek, then let us know what are you wishing for. Feel free to leave it in the comments below.
I hope you get everything you wish for and more.
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Bryan Eisenberg is the co-author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling books Call to Action, Waiting For Your Cat to Bark and Always Be Testing. Bryan is available as a professional speaker. You can friend him on Facebook or follow him on Twitter (@TheGrok).
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December 19th, 2008
11:10 am
I wish you could get bacon scarfs in the UK!
December 19th, 2008
12:17 pm
It’s just good to read one of these lists and know that I have a 90% ditto feeling on it.
Just great!
December 19th, 2008
12:22 pm
Marshmallow shooters rock. My son loves those RC copters, for a day.
I’m getting Shaun White Snowboarding for the Wii!!!! You can use it with the Wii Fit board.
December 19th, 2008
8:06 pm
I LOVE that snowboard boots show up on a list of web geeks’ gifts – woot woot!
p.s. I gotta check out that Shaun White snowboarding game. The kid’s untouchable – check out how his game’s numbers in first week sell-through compare to other boarding based games…
http://business.transworld.net/2008/12/02/shaun-white%E2%80%99s-road-trip-checking-at-retail/
December 19th, 2008
11:24 pm
How can be HELLI SKIING in 2nd place… Must be the 1st choice!
Happy holidays
December 22nd, 2008
1:16 pm
I’d love to get a couple of these in my stocking. Custom Wordpress themes and domain name gift certificates make good choices, too.
January 7th, 2009
9:20 am
[...] several of us received an iPod Touch this holiday season. That is the item that topped our list of gifts for web geeks. I even got these cool Etre Touchy gloves that will keep my hands warm this winter, but let my [...]
July 15th, 2009
7:58 am
I’m not sure how I feel at the moment, I have just come to the realisation that I am a geek, and apparently it has surprised no-one else! oh well, I will stand up and be proud whilst getting familiar with my iPod Touch.
July 25th, 2009
11:05 am
What is with the following of Ed Hardy. I’ve seen so many of their shirts, and they frankly are just messy. Maybe they are for geek “kids”? Or heck, maybe their marketing department just knows whats up.
August 12th, 2009
9:04 am
You forgot the obligatory top shelf mags, geeks after all