Although I need or want many other things, these are more of the things 
that I wish I had.

House stuff
- New electrical wiring (more grounded outlets, and more circuts)
- Less lawn maintenence (no pestisides/herbasides)
- Housing for VCR, DVD player, Computer, TV to reduce children from 
  using them when not desired.

Computer Stuff:
- Wireless N for my Windows 98 laptop that also works in Linux. 
Preferably PCMCIA. Preferably one that supports 802.11's mesh network 
standard (which is still being drafted?).
- A x86 computer suitable for running Windows Vista (although I'll 
  probably run Debian Etch on it)
- A good quality uniterupted power supply (UPS).
- Some nice way of having lots of data storage. Preferably a Network 
  Attached Storage (NAS) device, but a Storaged Attached Network, or 
  just a networked PC with space for storage would be nice. I'd like to 
  have swappable redundancy, future data capacity upgrades, wake on lan 
  (WoL)/good power management (possibly multiple devices, but one 
  partition would be ideal), low noise, low heat, low power 
  requirements, high speed connection (idealy 100Mbps Ethernet 
  compatible)...
- A small gigabit ethernet switch
- A large 10Mbps ethernet switch (22 machines currently, with space for 
  more)
- A Dell rack mountable machine (suitable for co-location for internet 
  services such as web space, and a mail server)
- An AGP 4x card for my DFI NBT72-SC?
- A nice Tablet PC, or maybe just a notebook with wireless (preferably 
  802.11g/b/a, or WiMax?) good battery life, and can run Linux (2.6 
  kernels).
- Blue Ray recorder.

Musical instruments:
- MIDI compatible music keyboard. I'd like one that can also work 
standalone, and of course one that can play many notes at once. Having 
MIDI output generally seems to be very expensive. Many consumer 
keyboards can't play four notes at once. Cords typically have three 
notes, then one for melody, and another for the transition makes five. 
One that's durrable and portable would be nice too.
- A profesional trumpet with a mute
- A violin (although I may have access to one that's currently broken)

- Blue Ray player (maybe just copy to mass storage via a computer reader?)
- High speed internet
- A Winnipeg Free Press subscription
- A subscription to the Ottawa Citizen
- A nice TV antena (current rabit ears don't sit well, aplified one is 
  broken, cabling doesn't currently allow for good location.)
- Movie rentals
- An ACM membership
- An IEEE membership

- Gas for the car (road trips can be fun)
- Other things to facilitate cheaper road trips (CAA?, tent trailer 
  would need new car, smaller stuff?)

Music (Good condition records and/or CD):
The original Star Wars soundtracks (not the new ones and not the special 
  edition (SE) ones)
White Stripes CD with 7 Nation Army
Prodigy's CD with One Love
Metalica's CD with Unforgiven
  Enter Sandman
Swollen Member's or Sam Roberts? CD with Brother Down?
Blind Mellon with No Rain
Wallflowers with One Headlight
Googoo Dolls with Name
Dave Mathew's Band (DMB) with Crash into me
Dirty Vegas with Days Go By

DVD's (Blue Ray?):
Monsters Inc. (preferably the special edition)
The Great Escape
The Matrix triliogy
The Star Trek moves (1 to 6 plus TNG ones I don't have, special editions)
Crimson Tide
Down Parascope
Monty Python Gift Set (Holy Grail +)
Das Boot (Which one? Directors cut, Uncut, or other?)

Food:
- Maple candies (mostly made from maple sugar). The Almond Tree 
  occationaly has really good ones.
- High quality Tea (earl grey, orange peko, dark blends), low quality 
  can be good too. Most Twinings dark teas are my current favorites, 
  although some Golden Sail brand is good too.
- Unique sugars or sweeteners (not white and I have lots of maple sugar)
- Vanilla Extract (synthetic is usualy good enough)
- Dark Chocolate (Lint 90%, Cadburies, Special Dark and Tolberone's Dark
  are amonng my favorites)
- Various kinds of Soy or Soya sause. Not synthetic.
- A high quality or gourmet pasta (durran wheat?)
- Home made mustard

Fresh food:
- ginger beef
- won ton's with sweet and sour sause
- 4 cheese pizza (well, high quality mozza and maybe some feta) with thick 
  crust.
- beaver tails (the sweet one or the cheese one)
- mozzarella (cheese) sticks (safeway has good ones)
- white rice
- ribs
- some steak

Books:
Algorithms in C++ by Robert Sedgewick
The Art of Computer Programming (new ones vol 1-3 & 4?) by Donald Knuth
The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie ("Ansi C" on the 
  cover, might be aka second edtion?)
Any classic literature that I don't have. Eg. Bentham's Penopticon, Sir M. 
  Keyes...
Engineering A Compiler
Managing Gigabytes

Unique or interesting rocks.

Removed items:
- A small USB hub, unpowered, but a powered one would be useful too.
- A cheap Media Center PC
- A new gas dryer
- 17" LCD monitor 1280x1024, preferably 1:500? contrast. This was 
  going for $450-$650 Canadian, now is more cheap. Bigger still would be 
  nice.
- DVD writer. HP 300i's was going for about $200. I made 
  sure it supports standards that will be supported in the future (all the 
  current ones or the current standards). Dual layer burners are out 
  now, but I've lost my desire to burn DVDs.
- A TV subscription

Changelog:
* 2009/01/01 removed USB hub, added Blue Ray stuff
* 2008/02/25 added house, removed Media Center PC
* 2006/12/11 added Wireless N, USB hub
* 2006/07/29 added Musical instruments section, keyboard, trumpet and 
violin
* Updated 2006/07/26, had to buy a dryer
* Updated 2006/07/03