Assorted Afflatuses

Rather than provide a printed copy of my "Holiday Wish List" to those who want it, I have posted it online to help preserve our forests and limit my consumption of costly color ink.

$20 & Under

Perhaps Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Or Jules Verne's Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers
Maybe Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
David Kamp's The United States of Arugula
And a copy of The Economist Style Guide
Along with assorted Moleskine Notebooks and Cahiers

$60 & Under

Possibly a Cross Tech3 (Pencil/Pen²)
Oxford University Press' The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories
Or Oxford University Press' The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Maybe Aaron Hillegass' Advanced Mac OS X Programming
And an All-Clad 8" Stainless Steel Skillet

$100 & Under

One Casauri Portfolio Valise
An Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse
Or an M-Audio Nova Microphone
Possibly a Thermoworks IR Gun Industrial Infrared Thermometer
Or a Thermoworks Super-Fast Thermopen

$200 & Under

For recording an M-Audio MobilePre USB
For listening a pair of HarmonKardon SoundSticks
For cooking an All-Clad 10" Nonstick Stainless Steel Skillet
And for keeping warm some cashmere sweaters
A crazy scarf
Or something more conservative

$200 & Up

Conceivably one Wacom 6x11 Intuos3 Graphics Tablet
Some stylish Paul Smith Stripped Shirts
Or a Nikon 85mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens

I may have more thoughts as time marches forward, but for now, 'tis all.