Kevin's Christmas List

In the spirit of the season (gimmee, gimmee, gimmee...) here is my Christmas list. I figure this way Santa can just hotlink from his naughty_or_nice.html list to my page. In fact, I'll even provide the relevant section of the list for him:

Ok, now that we have that taken care of, on to the list...

Computer stuff
- A faster connection from my house to the Internet. 28.8 is just too slow. I thought that ISDN might be a good solution, but it looks like it ends up costing just as much as a 56 KB frame relay connection. Any ideas?
- A new computer
  - 100 MHZ or better Pentium, 256 KB onboard cache
  - 16 MB memory
  - 1.0 GB hard drive, preferably < 10 ms seek time
  - 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy
  - 4X CD-ROM drive
  - fancy graphics card
  - fancy sound card
  - 17" color monitor
  The trickiest part about this system is that I want to it to double-boot so that I can run either Windows 95 or Linux. This is tricky because Windows 95 wants the newest components available while the Linux drivers often can't handle the newer components. So it'll probably have to be custom built and extensively tested. I hope that Microsoft didn't buy out all of Santa's techie elves...
Biking Stuff
- rain jacket
- rain pants
- SPD bike shoes and cleats
- waterproof panniers
- white blinky light
- a pair or two of those silly looking biking tights
Skiing Stuff
- My skis repaired (I put a big ding in the bottom of one near the end of last ski season and I never quite get around to getting it fixed.)
- Telemark boots

Well, that's a start anyway. Come back soon, as this is one web page that is guaranteed to expand!

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