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BenSpark’s 2009 Christmas Wish List

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Christmas AvatarSeems like some of my favorite people are giving their suggestions for Christmas gifts. I like stuff and I have some cool fun ideas to share. The items in this list are either ones I own outright, got from advertisers and sponsors or really really want. Also please know that all links that go to places where you can buy stuff are affiliate ones.

Little Elf
Eva from Christmas is for Kids from last year.

Stuff I Own.

1. – Okay, the Canon Powershot Camera I own is not available right now. I love my Canon SD800is but if I was to upgrade to a new Canon Powershot I’d go with Canon PowerShot SD980IS 12.1MP. This camera has a 3 inch screen so I can use one of the items I got from sponsors called the Flipbac. I’d love to be able to finally use that. Why there was no 2.5 version made first is anyone’s guess. 2.5 inch is pretty much the standard size of the LCD that many cameras have right now. But 3.0 inch is the new standard that I see coming.

2. – iPod Touch – Before I bought my Droid I used my iPod Touch everywhere for checking e-mail updating twitter and games on wi-fi. I still enjoy using it very much to watch movies and podcasts. I am loving me some Gary Vaynerchuk Wine Library Tv, Cali Lewis on GeekBrief.tv, Help my Business Sucks and Aalgar’s Loving Reviews of Transformers. These help me get through my morning workouts.

3 – Flip Mino HD – I have 4 of these and have paid for one. After I bought my first one I won 2 more and was given one by my friend Dina Riccobono. I gave one to Allison and kept one for myself and put a custom SkinIt on this one which I broke going down a children’s slide. I gave another one to my sister and I kept the one from Dina to replace my one that broke. (Well, the screen broke but it still records fine so I carry both with me.

4. – An iFrogz Custom iPod Skin – I own a half dozen iFrogz products from silicone covers for my iPod Touch to a sweet cover for my Dad’s iPod nano that protects, covers and yet displays the Harley-Davidson symbol on it. And Eva’s earpods. That is what she calls her iFrogz Tadpole which is so great for her. Check out those products through the link below.

5. – My DaVinci – If you are looking for a very heartfelt gift for a loved one then this is a fantastic one. Allison got me one of these of our first family photo taken the day after Eva was born. Yeah, we didn’t get a family photo till the day after she was born. Score one for the “photographer” in the family.


Items I was given by friends, Sponsors or advertisers, also stuff I won.

6. – An Amazon Kindle – I received an Amazon Kindle from Dina Riccobono at the Wings and Pings TweetUp and it has completely changed the way I read books. I bought Chris Brogan’s Book Trust Agents as well as Crush It from Gary Vaynerchuk.

7. – Poken – I received a Poken from Pokengirl (Vanessa and Juliet sisters who run the business and who are awesome.) I really like the relationship that we’ve formed from a simple tweet of me asking if Pokens were worth it. A Poken is a digital business card, I use it at all my conventions.

8. – Phototrackr – I have an original one of these. I just received 5 of the newest edition, the mini photo trackr. So some of you might be getting one of these soon. Be on the lookout for a great contest on the way.

9. – XShot – I’ve gotten so many of these and given so many away. I love this product and it goes with me everywhere. If you haven’t gotten one of these yet, you are missing out big time, missing being part of the photo.

10. – HP Pavilion DM3-1040US 13.3-Inch Laptop – I just bought one of these but I used a $100 card that I received from Tony Welch (@frostola) at Blog World Expo. It is a perfect size computer for travel and doing simple tasks for blogging, it is fantastic.

Stuff I Want

11. – LEGO – Sure I’m nearing 36 years old but I completely love LEGO. For a while back in 1997-199 I was ordering sets from the LEGO online shop almost daily. I have all of the first sets that LEGO did for Star Wars, tons of them. They are awaiting the day when Eva is ready to sit down and play with them and not scatter them across the room like leaves on the wind.

LEGO has even gone digital with tons of video games like LEGO Rock Band. I learned that there are many great songs on that disc that I’d love to play.

LEGO

12 – Funky Belt Buckles – I’m enjoying showing off my inner nerd with my Autobot Belt Buckle but I would also like the Decepticon one as well as the Thundercats one. Then the more I look around I see that there are other ones that I’d like. I see a Cookie Monster one and an Oscar the Grouch one, my two favorite Sesame Street Character. Then you get into superheores and I like this Superman one.

13. – Rock Band for Wii – Guitar Hero is a fun time but then you add Drums and singing to the mix and you have a party. But then there is also Band Hero so how do you decide?

14. – Transformers: 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership Edition. This is a Box Set of the complete US run of the Transformers Generation 1 cartoon. This remains to this day my absolute favorite all time cartoon series. I also would love the G.I. Joe Box set. I really wish that I started collecting those comics at the same time I was collecting Transformers. I’d love to have the whole set of those, the comic books were really good. And like my Belt Buckle above I’d like to have the complete set of Thundercats episodes, Seasons 1 and Season 2. I really thought that was on much longer.

15. – Nikon D90 – I’d love an upgrade to my DSLR. I love my D80 but come one it is 10 more numbers higher. 🙂

Actually, what I really wish for:

I wish that people would join Team Eva’s Farm. This is the charity that we as a family are really getting behind. Team Eva’s Farm is a Heifer International Team and you can join to help us raise $1000 to stock Eva’s Farm. Just click the sidebar thermometer to help donate and to join the team.

Comic Book

Thunder…

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Thunder….

THUNDERCATS HO!!!!

The first volume of season one of the Thundercats is on DVD. I loved this show. It had everything, strong characters, a fantasy world, swords, Cheetara and the Thundertank. Panthro was the McGuyver of Third Earth.

Also on DVD is the complete series of the WildC.A.T.S. – this was my favorite comic book in college. I have every issue of that book, then I even have all of volume 2’s issues and I started collecting volume 3, but it became to gritty and no longer fun. I liked the heyday of Image comic books when the teams were still fairly innocent in terms of the things they dealt with, not thrilled with the turn to a more mature (think FX original series like The Shield and Rescue Me are today’s WildC.A.T.S. and The A-Team and Airwolf was the WildC.A.T.S. teams of yesterday.) I liked the whole storyline of the WildC.A.T.S. A Covert Action Team in a secret war against aliens that were demonlike in appearance. I even did a presentation in my Etymology class in college about the etymology of the names of the characters and the races of aliens and how that related to the overall story. It was a good presentation. The Saturday morning cartoon was pretty well done. Too bad it was short lived. If WildC.A.T.S. took off it would have been a great Comic Book movie.

Man, back when I collected comic books like crazy I was really into them, then I began to focus solely on the WildStorm books, I made a web page back in college about those comic books and aspired to work for WildStorm as their webmaster. Now WildStorm is part of DC comics and their site is great but back in the day it was terrible.

I remember filling up my entire account with my website and having little wars with Frank the webmaster of the college about giving me more space. But he hoarded that space (Which at the time was 2 MB per student, Can you imagine) And I wanted another 2 MB so I could put up a better site. But that is okay because a few years later I took his job as webmaster at the college. The feud continued, but the veil had been lifted through my accessibility to the staff of the college. The web was no longer something controlled by the angry programming guys who made you feel stupid for not knowing all about Unix and who built back doors into everything so they could keep control. Nope, I controlled the website and I got things done. Too bad the college didn’t recognize that until the day I quit to work for Leading Edge Media. But I digress.

WildStorm used to have a Collectible Card game too. It was referred to as the WildStorm CCG. I used to buy the cards by the case. 4 boxes to a case. I still have all my cards and didn’t get a complete set of cards. I should complete that set and get rid of my extra cards. The game was actually fun to play and can still be played online. There are even some folks who still have sites up about the WildStorm CCG, I think I used to trade with a few of them. We would trade through a newsgroup back in 1995-1996. All text no pictures. The dark ages. Some people even created their own sets of cards. Here are some sites that feature the WildStorm CCG.

  • DMW Wildstorms CCG
  • WildStorms CCG Yahoo Group
  • JP’s WildStorms Revival Site
  • WildStorms CCG Gateway

Well that was an interesting nostalgia trip. When searching those sites I recognized a lot of folks I used to trade with. Funny. Some sites are actually still updated while others are exactly as I remember them.

Okay so I continued strolling around memory lane and decided to Google my old e-mail address from college. I came back with two hits.

  • Resume Tutorial – My resume used for a college tutorial.
  • The NH Ski Club Directory – Hmm, I was a member for one year back in 1998.