Our wizened leader noted that we should get together a wish list of geeky, yet personally desired gifts for the X-Mas season. While I thought this would be an easy task, I found myself hard pressed to find anything under $50 that I actually wanted. Fortunately, Google helped me narrow down my options based on a well thought out and fully planned search query: “I’m going to get drunk, hide and watch anime when the zombies finally come for me.”

In the $5 to $10 range I found a rather funny Stewie-Motivator themed drinking glass. Think what you want about the show, but damnit… this wisdom doesn’t get any worse with age. “Motivate: Nothing says ‘Obey me’ like a bloody head on a post.” Too true, too true…

See the rest of my list after the break…

In the $10 to $20 range comes a novel by Max Brooks, the author of the popular Zombie Survival Guide. World War Z is the “first hand” stories collected from a potential future during the human versus zombie war. As I mentioned in a previous Geeky Moment confession, this is very relevant to my interests. I thoroughly enjoyed the Zombie Survival Guide and really would like to read this one!

In the $20 to $30 range, and much closer to my normal faire, is the movie Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind from the mid ‘80s. This anime was from the pre-Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki and features a post-apocalyptic view of civilization approximately 1000 years after a nuclear holocaust.

The item I picked for the $30 to $40 range is probably the most normal, keeping within the norm of geeky items, of my choices. The single slot external SATA dock is just the thing to transform all my old random drives into the most awesome set of removable media around. How’s that for beating something like a zip-disk into a bloody pulp. They even make drive sleeves for protecting them.

Our $50+ range was meant as a “while we are dreaming” category. For me this meant being both geeky, while also preparing for the inevitable downfall of society. I present, the ULTIMATE secure home. How can you beat multiple feet of concrete, radiation proofing and not caring if your neighbors are partying it up at 3am? Prices range from around $300,000 to over $2 million easily… but that’s not even half the story. Once you secure the building, you still need to renovate, that’s going to up the bar another few hundred thousand, easily.

If anyone has a spare million hanging around, I’m always looking to start an apocalypse prep club!