Money for the new little, and also to refuel , and urgently need to print the working papers.

Horse-sized Peking Duck.

Questionable Sentience

• Macbook Pro: I forget what model number, but it came with, uh, mountain lion? I guess it's a year or two old now. It's the first thing I turn on when I get up in the morning. Plus it's, you know, Unix, so I can write (non-gui) programs with ease. I've actually written some portable code on there too that runs on Linux hosts as well. Within this I really need:
  • VNC client: Apple's Screen Sharing is teh bomb.
  • X11R6 - ported to OSX by John Carmack. Nuf ced. Need this to run Matlab on the clusters at wrok.
• Gerber E-Z Out Rescue: It is my very favourite knife. I call it "Vera." Anyway, it's pretty great and I use it for everything you can think of. Not every day. Don't think of that. Not that either. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING. Only complaint is the clip is on the wrong side (I am left handed) and can't be removed. Also blunt tip means it's not very stabby. That is actually ok, except on those rare occasions when I need to stab. I'll get over it.
• Trek 9000 Aluminum: Hardtail mountain bike, 21 years old. I am, every day, amazed by the engineering of this thing. The frame is so freaking made-in-the-USA awesome I usually feel like I'm pedaling down the road waving a 10 foot wide Stars and Stripes with a bald eagle riding on the handlebars. Some of the components (crank, headset, pedals) are original. This is how I get to work and to the grocery store and to the mountains on the weekend.
  • Cygolite Metro 300 headlight - charges using USB. Smaller than my knife. Brighter than a neutron bomb
  • Cygolite HotShot taillight - six different red flashy patterns, including at least one guaranteed to induce seizures!
• Klipsch Image One Headphones: For the last ten-12 years where I work has been under continuous construction so there isn't a moment where I can't hear some fucking truck backing up. And for the past three years the floor has been partially inhabited by people from another department who are all VERY LOUD and like to have meetings in the hallway and talk on the phone with their doors open. The headphones, when properly primed with heavy metal instrumentals (Deathmøle is my favourite work music), reduces my urge to be stabby (necessary because my knife is not so stabby, see above).
• For the sake of completeness I will say that I have a dumbphone. It's a Samsung. I think. It does voice (badly) and text (the O key doesn't work most of the time). I forgot it at home today. So ... this is not essential tech for me.