Birthday Presents
Though my birthday is still several weeks away, I recieved some birthday presents in the mail the other day. I was quite surprised to see an Amazon package on my porch the other day and spent most of the day trying to figure out what I had ordered (I saw the box on my way out in the morning and couldn’t open it until I got back in).
It turns out that grandma ordered some stuff of my Amazon Wishlist early.
I really like having a wishlist, for several reasons:
- Grandma can buy me stuff she might find offensive. :-)
- Grandma can buy me stuff she doesn’t understand.
- I get what I want.
To illustrate #1: I got two CDs by Mitch Hedberg. Ordinarily Grandma wouldn’t buy me a CD by a stoner-comic, but with the wishlist, she doesn’t have to know.
For #2, I got 2 books on Applescript- I’m not sure she even knows what ‘scripting’ is, though she does use a computer (for email and card games, just like the rest of us)
For #3, here’s what I got:
- Ideas and Opinions, by Albert Einstein – a collection of many of his non-scientific writings
- AppleScript, The Definitve Guide, by Matt Neuburg, from O’Reilly
- AppleScript, the Missing Manual, by Adam Goldstein – you might be asking why I got two AppleScript books- well, I intended on deleting one of them before my birthday got close, but I guess they’ll both be useful.
- Strategic Grill Locations, by Mitch Hedberg
- Mitch All Together, by Mitch Hedberg
