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Jaiden
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Help! Pod/Ted won't give me any ideas about what he wants (or needs) for his birthday and I have no good ideas right now. His birthday is September 17th but I won’t be around until the weekend of the 30th so I’m going to wait until then to celebrate with him in person (he lives in Columbus/Boston, I live in London, Canada).

Some of you know who Pod/Ted is but for those who don't he's a former hatracker who hangs out on other forums presently (so I feel safe posting this here). He's entering into a masters program in computational linguistics.

He really enjoys Settlers of Catan and its expansions- maybe another game along those lines?

He reads mainly fiction and science fiction and he bought a mac mini a bit over a month ago. So maybe something along those lines?

Past years I’ve bought him a good portable cd player, an mp3 player, a hard drive, books (Life of Pi, a computational linguistics “bible”, java books, etc), cds (Verve Remixed, etc), and other odds and ends.

[Dont Know]

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Parsimony
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Hey Jaid! Someone had a question about cake today, that would have been right up your alley.

Also, I have no ideas for gifts for pod.

But then again, anyone who can make their own flamethrower doesn't need gifts.

--ApostleRadio
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Jaiden
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Ooops- this might help it make some more sense. Ted is my boyfriend of just under 4 years. He's turning 23 years old.
[Smile]
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Jaiden
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Hi AR!
Thanks for the heads up- I'll go check it out.

I'm not sure anybody "needs" gifts- but they're awfully nice to receive and give [Big Grin]
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Does he have Munchkin? It's a card game that spoofs RPG's, very fun, requires at least 3 people to play.

Chrononaughts is good, too.
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Lalo
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Too bad about the mp3 player. Here I was really looking forward to suggesting an iPod...
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Wow, T...who ever told you about Munchkin, I wonder....


[Big Grin]

Too bad I never got Jenni to play it against me, she hates competing aginst me.

Rather, she hates losing to me, I guess... [Big Grin]
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esl
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My birthday just went by, and my brother did the coolest thing for me.

When I got home from work the night before, he was really cryptic and wouldn't let me in my room. turns out he made a scavenger hunt in it - to find my present. Twas lots of fun.. sounds like you won't be able to do that this time though. So I guess I'm mostly just sharing. maybe for future reference.. donno.
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If he likes Settlers of Catan, he'd probably enjoy the game Carcassonne. Ted would ALSO appreciate almost anything at all from a geek catalog.
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Jaiden
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Thank you for the ideas.

TSmith- I've never heard of Munchkin, I'll have to check it out.

Lalo- I'm actually considering an ipod, he's known to use electronic things "well" so I'm not sure the MP3 player I gave him is still working [Wink]

TomDavidson- I just gave Carcassonne to my brother for his birthday and he loves it. For some reason it just never crossed my mind to give a copy to Ted, how silly I can be [Smile]
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