I should amend my Christmas wish list to include some books. I like books. Getting Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do would be cool. I still have this crazy idea that I want to program games so this book would be nice too. I like to read novels for fun when I am not plotting to take over the world and get rich doing it, and I have heard so many good things about Dave Egger's books - You Shall Know Our Velocity and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. It's not just crass materialism folks, it's intelligent, crass materialism.