Re: [OT] Amazon wishlist (was Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 22, 2008, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20081022235254.GZ14786@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpxctcpk.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> By the way, are you still in need of a folding bookshelf from Target?
> >
> > If you saw my wife's book collection, and the space we have, you'd
> > understand my need for bookshelves...  sadly we only have one.
> > Why do you ask?
> 
> Because I stumbled across:
> 
>   http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=1XF91IZ5VXGTQ
> 
> recalled that you moved recently, thought perhaps it might be a good
> idea to send you a housewarming gift, but was not sure if this list really
> belonged to the person I thought.

Heh, that's very kind. Yes, it is actually my list, but I never use it so I often forget I put things onto it. I think I actually use it as a way to bookmark something I'm looking at on Amazon, and then never wind up going back to because I just didn't get around to it.

Last year my thoughtful wife bought my birthday gift from my Amazon
wish list.  It was a DVD set that I had wanted, but many months
before my birthday I had viewed the entire series through Netflix
and totally forgot it was on an Amazon wish list.  She had no clue
and wound up purchasing the DVDs for me anyway.  :)

> Crazy people claim to be somebody else while wishing for something the
> person they are disguising as never would.  Once I looked for and found a
> Linus Torvalds who wanted a bunch of mysql+php books ;-)

Hah!  Amazon is dangerous that way.  Looking things up by name.
Email is usually slightly more unique...

-- 
Shawn.