My 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 ;-) I update this list quite often. Items I've already got are struck out. DVDs ------- (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) * [Sin City](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/) (2005) * [Mr. & Mrs. Smith](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356910/) (2005) * [The Italian Job](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317740/) (2003) * [Lost in Translation](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/) (2003) * [Hackers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/) (1995) * [Lord of War](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/) (2005) CDs ------- * Die Ärzte: Ist das alles? * Die Ärzte: 13 * Die Ärzte: Wir wollen nur deine Seele * Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygène * Lost in Translation Original Sound Soundtrack Books --------- * Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides: Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley 1994, ISBN-13 978-0201633610 * 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) * Jeffrey Friedl: Mastering Regular Expressions. O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-257-3 * 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 * Christopher Hadnagy: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking. ISBN-13: 978-0470639535 * Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Knust: Linux-Treiber entwickeln. ISBN-13: 978-3-89864-696-3 * Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon * Simon Singh: Fermat's Last Theorem. ISBN-13: 978-1841157917 * Anything written by Donald E. Knuth (in English please). For the long term, “The Art of Computer Programming” would be nice to have. * Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. ISBN-13: 978-0743269513 (or in German: Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität, ISBN-13: 978-3897495739) * Dietmar Wätjen: Kryptographie. Grundlagen, Algorithmen, Protokolle. ISBN-13: 978-3827414311 got it. * Günther M. Ziegler: Darf ich Zahlen? Piper Verlag, München 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3492053464 got it. Hardware -------- * An external backup drive (hard disk, USB/eSATA(p), 1 TB or more) * Cool electronic gadgets (ideally, kits for soldering), for example: ** a [r0ket](http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/ODE4OTgxOTk-/Bausaetze_Module/Bausaetze/Microcontroller_Experimentierplatine_r0ket.html) ** Mood Lamps, Blinkenthings, etc. Other Things I Could Make Use Of ----------- * A [Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) set * financial support for conferences, like [29. Chaos Communication Congress](http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/)