-My Wish List
-============
+ -> [[!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 ;-)
-I update this list quite often. Items I've already got are
-<strike>struck out</strike>.
-
-DVDs
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-(Please, no BluRays, they 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)
- * <strike>[Lord of War](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/) (2005)</strike>
-
-CDs
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-
- * Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygène
- * Die Ärzte: Ist das alles?
- * Die Ärzte: 13
- * Die Ärzte: Wir wollen nur deine Seele
- * <strike>Lost in Translation Original Sound Soundtrack</strike>
-
Books
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- * Jon Loeliger: Versionskontrolle mit Git, O'Reilly Verlag, Köln 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3897219458 (or in English: ISBN-13: 978-0596520120)
- * Günther M. Ziegler: Darf ich Zahlen? Piper Verlag, München 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3492053464
- * 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
- * <strike>Dietmar Wätjen: Kryptographie. Grundlagen, Algorithmen, Protokolle. ISBN-13: 978-3827414311</strike>
- * 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.
-
-Hardware
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-* <strike>An Amazon Kindle [with](http://www.amazon.de/dp/B003DZ1Y8Q) or [without keyboard](http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0051QVF7A). I like the E-Ink display, so please, don't give me a version with an LCD display ;-)</strike> Seems that the DRM (i.e. "copyright protection") sucks with the Kindle :-( Better wait for a more open system.
-
-Other Things I Could Make Use Of
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- * A [Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)) set
- * <strike>A toaster (nope, I don't have one yet, the simplest model will do)</strike>
- * A pair of potholders (apparently, the one I've brought with me into the flat have vanished)
-
+(ordered by preference, no e-books with restrictive DRM please.)
+
+ * Matt Kenney: The Art of Kumiko, ISBN: 978-1951217242
+ * Desmond King: Shoji and Kumiko Design
+ * Book 1: The Basics, ISBN-13: 978-0987258304
+ * Book 2: Beyond the Basics, ISBN-13: 978-0987258311
+ * Book 3: Hexagonal Patterns, ISBN-13: 978-0987258328
+ * Book 4: Diamond Patterns, ISBN-13: 978-0987258335
+ * Christopher Schwarz: The Anarchist's Design Book. Lost Art Press, https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-design-book
+ * Christopher Schwarz: Ingenious Mechanicks, Early Workbenches & Workholding. Lost Art Press, https://lostartpress.com/products/ingenious-mechanicks
+ * Peter Follansbee, Jennie Alexander: Make a Joint Stool from a Tree: An Introduction to 17th-century Joinery,
+ ISBN-13: 978-0985077709
+ * Stephen Coles: The Anatomy of Type, Harper Design, US, ISBN-13: 978-0062203120
+ * George Nakashima: The Soul of a Tree: A Master Woodworkers Reflections. ISBN-13: 978-1568363950
+ * John Napier: Hands. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0691025476
+
+<!-- currently not so relevant:
+ * Raymond Chen: The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows. ISBN-13: 978-0321440303
+ * 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
+-->
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