So what did you get? xmas!

[NoTiG]

Crock pot , and a big hunting knife here.

[matt_risi]

Posting from my new Wii! :)

[graabein]

I got some euros since me and my gf is going to Paris on holiday. I also got a knife sharpener (??), a book on digital photography, a cd by The Saints (Australian punk) and some socks. Yeah, and some used books by Charles Dickens and a bottle of cognac.

I gave my mother a thermos. I lost hers some 2-3 years ago and she's been bugging me with getting it back ;) and I got my sisters a jigsaw puzzle and a book each. Dad also got a book and tickets to the theatre.

Nice Christmas so far I just have to remember to drink more beer and not eat so much cause my stomach is getting big! :-k

Hope you all have a nice holiday :D

[dbbolton]

a violin, new desk, paintbrushes, keyboard :D

[beercz]

Leather laptop bag :-)
Manchester United shirt :-)
Books :-)
Voucher for more books :-)
DVDs :-)

Had a good Christmas so far, hope you all had a good Christmas too.

[mahy]

Some clothing, 2 books, laser mouse and a Bluetooth dongle.

EDIT: And yes, Jesus Christ the Messiah. (i really don't wanna offend anyone, but that's what i got...)

[medix]

LOTS of climbing gear..

New Mammut rope and rope bag.. dyneema slings (24") and some biners.. (just to name a few)

Bought the GF a good set of quickdraws for sport climbing..

Looks like we'll be stopping at New River Gorge on the way home!

(Yeah.. I know.. doesn't quite follow the ubuntu theme, but if it makes everyone feel better, I managed to get hardware video accel working on my laptop last night... ;) )

Hope everyone had a very merry Christmas!

- Medix 8)

[dbbolton]

Leather laptop bag :-)
Manchester United shirt :-)
Books :-)
Voucher for more books :-)
DVDs :-)

Had a good Christmas so far, hope you all had a good Christmas too.
books rule

[Chemist]

a gig of ram, some aftershave and lots of books

[.t.]

Digital camera
Some camping tools (Help me get to Venezuela! (http://tibsplace.co.uk/venezuela))
Socks
T-shirts
Alarm clock

[andlinux21]

I got some books on photography, a new lens, 512M of DDR RAM, and some clothes. :D

[iPower]

Money
2 blocks of chocolate
Peugeot Pepper Mill (expensive one)

[dart1007]

Peace Of Mind:)

[sailingboarder]

NEW LAPTOP!!!!!!!!! so excited
new Toshiba Satellite, dual core, best xmas gift i've had in a long, long time

[steven8]

I got a HUGE Ubuntu book, 512 mbs of RAM for my new computer, 2 PC games, the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD and some socks! I needed socks bad!!

[BWF89]

- Insulated lamb skin leather jacket
- 2GB PNY Attache flash drive
- 2 packages of socks
- Superman Returns for the Nintendo DS
- Aftershave conditioner & soap on a rope
- A clock
- Winter boots
- Camouflaged tent
- Spongebob Squarepants calendar
- Trivial Pursuit calendar
- $20

[John Fury]

I got an ipod nano 4gb And a buch of sweatshirts. And a good thermos like tumbler thing.

[PatrickMay16]

I got Final Fantasy 8 & 9, Unreal Tournament 2003, and some neat tripod-like speakers.
I think that is pretty good.

Best of all, though, we had roast goose.

[chipdip]

About $200 and a "Das Keyboard II" I love the thing.

[bastiegast]

LOTS of climbing gear..

New Mammut rope and rope bag.. dyneema slings (24") and some biners.. (just to name a few)

Bought the GF a good set of quickdraws for sport climbing..

Looks like we'll be stopping at New River Gorge on the way home!

(Yeah.. I know.. doesn't quite follow the ubuntu theme, but if it makes everyone feel better, I managed to get hardware video accel working on my laptop last night... ;) )

Hope everyone had a very merry Christmas!

- Medix 8)

Good to see other climbers here :D Here in Holland we don't have mountains but in the summer I'll probably visit france for climbing.

I got nothing for xmas by the way, it's not really a tradition here. We just have dinner with friends and family.

[rowanparker]

Good to see other climbers here :D Here in Holland we don't have mountains but in the summer I'll probably visit france for climbing.

I got nothing for xmas by the way, it's not really a tradition here. We just have dinner with friends and family.
Don't you get presents a few weeks before christmas day? (I remember vaigly my dutch friend telling me).

[OffHand]

A hangover.

[JLB]

Don't you get presents a few weeks before christmas day? (I remember vaigly my dutch friend telling me).

Sinter Klaas & Zwarte Piet on 5 December :)
He arrives on a boat from Spain riding his horse with his Zwarte Piets (Liken this to Santa's elves).

[rowanparker]

Sinter Klaas & Zwarte Piet on 5 December :)
He arrives on a boat from Spain riding his horse with his Zwarte Piets (Liken this to Santa's elves).
Ah right, cool.

Sinter Klaas is Santa Clause I guess.

I'm glad i wasn't going mad, i'd of looked pretty stupid.

[po0f]

Logitech G15 keyboard, Columbia jacket, gift certificate to Books-A-Million and $50 bucks. Hopefully the Books-A-Million here has good Python books. :)

Got my parents a down mattress pad, mom some jeans, dad a new shirt and tie, sister the movie Cars, brother a Wusthof chef knife. I wanted to give more presents (I like giving more than receiving) but I was kinda broke this Christmas.

[Jorge32]

I got Ubuntu runing in my pc... what else could you ask for? hahaha
I also got a new tennis shirt, a watch, a belt, and... I think that's all

[STREETURCHINE]

with 10 nieces and nephews ,all i got was a huge bill and my wallet emptied,lol:-D

[Kujen]

Gears of War, Sonic (360), Deadwood first season dvd's, a new 360 controller, and some clothes.

Got my mom some cd's she wanted, my aunt a new harddrive, and various small things for others.

[mhancoc7]

My wonderful wife got me a 160GB external hard drive!!

Jereme

[TrailerTrash]

I got a new Desktop, a new Laptop, and a new Satellite radio. ....Ok..O i bought those for myself for Christmas. :D
What other people got me is some clothes! Im happy.

[migla]

a collage of old photos of me as a kid and cheese

[tnseditor]

I got new parts for a new computer... Intel Motherboard, 250 GB SATA WD hard drive, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 ghz, 1 gb RAM.

[Frak]

2 Gigs of RAM, Blu-Ray DVD burner, Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD,

And a trip to the high school for about 5 hours to make sure that the servers wouldn't surge from the impending power outage, which left the city powerless for 10 hours on Christmas day, which in the end resulted in a large generator allowing us to back up all of the data onto a remote storage facitly somewhere in Oklahoma City.

[hoagie]

I got:
Nintendo Wii
2 Gigs usb memory disk
A new pair of shoes
DVDS

[Titus A Duxass]

2 Books about the English language,
Jeremy Clarkson book and new DVD(the good, the bad & the ugly),
some chocolates filled with sour cherry and chilli,
several large size hangovers.

[v8YKxgHe]

I got some Autodesk Maya books so I can teach my self Maya, that way I can be free of Windows! (I was tied to Windows before because of 3DS Max)

[bonzodog]

I got....
The "Asterix The Gaul" collection on DVD, Jeremy Clarksons Latest book, and some aftershave.

[Aspero]

Leather coat
Arcade basket ball set.
Really nice wine.
2 Gig Sandisk thumb drive.
$40 Office max gift card.
Bike seat (no more broke back mountain biking)
2 Display Knives.
Kick *** wallet.

And I bought my family gifts I wanted :D

Wife:
007 box sets
End tables with coffee table
A purse that cost way to much
Chinese Basket

Kid:
Xbox 360
PSP
4-Wheeler
Several Games
Cloths to make him a thug

[ComplexNumber]

i got the following:
£30
4 pairs of undies
shower gel.

[Interestedinthepenguin]

Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie: The Conqueror of Shamballa
An ash grey sweater
A Playstation 2 (yay!) My mom wrapped it in a box, under a pair of shoes she knew I did not want, or need, just to throw me off. ...It worked. :rolleyes:
Kingdom Hearts 1 (woo!)
$20 subway cash card (heck yeah!)
$10 McDonalds cash card
$10 Hollywood video card
mechanical pencil and extra lead
new toothbrush
lip balm
stopwatch
2 pairs of new jeans

[Polygon]

lots of cds
prey (game)
f.e.a.r (game)
portable hard drive (so i can finally reinstall operating systems with ease!)
lots of chocolate
star trek: next generation season 4
some nintendo ds games
and assorted other random stuff =P

[vvlist]

$525
PSP game
PSP movie
shaving kit
a lot of clothes
a watch

[ekuliak]

-Sennheiser RS 140 wireless headphones (http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-140-Wireless-Balanced-Headphones/dp/B0007QKXYU/sr=8-7/qid=1167248603/ref=pd_bbs_sr_7/102-9027703-4066538?ie=UTF8&s=electronics) I love these!
-Dragon calendar
-Panda Puzzle
-A hardcover manga/comic titled "The Blade of Kringle"
-Sweatshirt
-1 GB Memorex mini travel drive (U3 software annoys me, so I shall hopefully uninstall it soon)
-5 pack of CD-RW

Presents for me from me:
-The Official Ubuntu Book (http://www.amazon.com/Official-Ubuntu-Book-Benjamin-Mako/dp/0132435942/sr=8-1/qid=1167249341/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-9027703-4066538?ie=UTF8&s=books) (Mostly it's for my dad so he can learn how to use Ubuntu since his next computer I build for him will have Ubuntu instead of Windows)
-Quake 4 Special Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Activision-47875329737-Quake-Special-Edition/dp/B000AQE79E/ref=pd_ys_qtk_k2a_img/102-9027703-4066538) (Runs great on Ubuntu! I will probably buy Doom 3 soon:cool: )
-Great Jobs for Computer Science Majors (http://www.amazon.com/Great-Jobs-Computer-Science-Majors/dp/0071390391/ref=pd_ys_iyr_img/102-9027703-4066538)
-Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102163) (I'm so glad it has a $100 mail in rebate right now)

[cstudent]

The wife and I opted to not give each other separate gifts this year and get ourselves one big gift we've had our eyes on the past few months. We gave ourselves a 50 inch plasma TV.

[tbroderick]

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 (http://www.amazon.com/Looney-Tunes-Golden-Collection-One/dp/B0000AYJXS)

Saturday Night Live The Complete First Season (http://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Night-Live-Complete-Season/dp/B000JLQPYK)

Old Boy Volume 1 (http://www.amazon.com/Old-Boy-1/dp/1593075685)

Walt and Skeezix Book One (http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Skeezix-Book-Frank-King/dp/1896597645)

The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Peanuts-1950-1952-Charles-Schulz/dp/156097589X)

Naoki Urasawa's Monster Volume 1 (http://www.amazon.com/Naoki-Urasawas-Monster-Vol-1/dp/1591166411)

[stuh84]

I got two TFT screens (an Acer 17" and an Octigen [generic brand] 19" widecreen) for my home studio, because I cant work without two screens..........plus Beryl looks cool on it :D

It also helps as I have no TV, only a DVB-T USB dongle, so my DVD player, and TV are all on the computer, so the 19" widescreen was bought partly for that purpose.

I also got a set of Beyer Dynamic DT100's, superbly clear headphones, again for the studio.

Also I got Drumkit From Hell 2, which is a set of drum samples (amazing sounding ones)

So yeah, mainly studio stuff, but I did get a huge chocolate bar....which is now finished.

I did get to cook the Christmas Dinner though, which I was looking forward to and enjoyed.

[medix]

Good to see other climbers here :D Here in Holland we don't have mountains but in the summer I'll probably visit france for climbing.

I got nothing for xmas by the way, it's not really a tradition here. We just have dinner with friends and family.

I suppose I should add that I sorta gave myself an early Christmas present when my girlfriend and I took a trip in August to climb the Grand Teton in Wyoming :-D

If you ever get the chance, I would HIGHLY reccomend it! We hired a guide, since we didn't quite have enough outdoor mountaineering experience to do it ourselves (and we were quite glad we didn't go ourselves). That was one HELL of a trip!

- Medix :cool:

[Ommadon]

A hangover.

LoL! Me too :D

[MethodOne]

I got the following:

-Rayman Raving Rabbids for Wii
-Boxers depicting a Google parody
-$25 gift card for a local computer store
-Laptop cooling fan
-Jeans
-$25 gift card for Wal-Mart
-Frogger plug-and-play game
-Wallet

I spent the Wal-Mart gift card and some cash for Wii points (for downloading games) and Classic Controllers (for playing some downloadable games). If the computer store doesn't have the used Mac that I looked at the last time I went there, I might spend the gift card on an 3.5" SATA hard drive enclosure and a 320GB hard drive for storing all my torrent downloads, ROMs, MP3s, and pictures because I'm dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu on my laptop.

Edit: Called the computer store and the person said the Mac was still there.

[LanceM]

Priceless looks on my children's faces when they opened their presents. Oh, and gift cards for Best Buy that I used to get a battery grip for my camera.

[Koori23]

Crock pot , and a big hunting knife here.


I got a crock pot too.. Hmm.. Maybe I should learn to cook now...

I also received a Smith and Wesson 9mm semi

Odd for a christmas gift..