[[!meta title="My Personal Wish List"]] This is a list of things I would like to have, so if you want to make me a present, feel free to use this list as an inspiration. However, I myself may satisfy my wishes on this list from time to time ;-) Movies ------- (Please, no BluRays or HD-DVDs, their DRM systems are evil!) * [Tonari no Totoro](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/) (1988) * [Mononoke-hime](http://imdb.com/title/tt0119698/) (1997) * [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/) (2005) * [Pulp Fiction](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/) (1994) * [Raiders of the Lost Ark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/) (1981) * [Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087469/) (1984) * [Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/) (1989) * [Sin City](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/) (2005) * [Lost in Translation](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/) (2003) * [Hackers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/) (1995) Music ------- * Kamelot – Epica * Keane – Perfect Symmetry * Röyksopp: Melody A.M. * Röyksopp: Junior * Parov Stelar: The Invisible Girl Books --------- (ordered by preference, no e-books until the DRM issue is gone.) * Karl Popper: Logik der Forschung. * Daniel Suarez: Influx, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-0-525-95318-0 * Michael Seemann: Das neue Spiel: Strategien für die Welt nach dem digitalen Kontrollverlust, ISBN: 3936086796 * more “Discworld” novels by Terry Prattchet (R.I.P.), in English or German * already got “Mort”, “Guards! Guards!”, “The Color of Magic”, “The Light Fantastic”, “Hogfather” * based on that, refer to the [Discworld Reading Order Guides](http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/) for your optimal choice * Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim (for example, [this](http://www.amazon.de/Scott-Pilgrim-Boxed-Set-Poster/dp/1934964573/?tag=aflattrcom506-21) 6 Volume Set) * Christopher Hadnagy: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking. ISBN-13: 978-0470639535 * Jon Loeliger: Versionskontrolle mit Git, O'Reilly Verlag, Köln 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3897219458 (or in English: ISBN-13: 978-0596520120) * Alexander Pawlak: Die Wissenschaft bei Douglas Adams, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3527504565 * Anything written by Donald E. Knuth (in English please). For the long term, “The Art of Computer Programming” would be nice to have. * Already got “The Art of Computer Programming”, Volume 1. * John Napier: Hands. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0691025476 * Jeffrey Friedl: Mastering Regular Expressions. O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-257-3 Hardware -------- * Currently, nothing in particular. Other Things I Could Make Use Of ----------- * A subscription to [LWN](https://lwn.net/subscribe/)