Anandtech OT Secret Santa 2012 Gifts Thread

[MartyMcFly3]

Thanks Captante! Excellent gifts this year! I haven't broken the heli yet either

And thanks again to MartyMcFly3 & ampskip for running it! Always a pleasure :thumbsup:

Tobolo got you your gift. (A->B, B->C, C->A) And your welcome.

 

[cKGunslinger]

They surprised me, since I have half-a-dozen open orders from Amazon and NewEgg, and so I opened them right away and had that "Wait, I didn't order this.." moment.


Gifts:


And my small collection of knives together:

Thank you sooo much, SS! Much appreciated!

Returned from Xmas break and found one more gift in my mailbox - a Stephen King poster. :thumbsup:

 

[MonKENy]

Since my SS didnt post the gifts I sent to him would it be in bad taste for me to tell what I got him lol?

 

[ilvs]

I got SO many things!!! I can't even imagine how long it took for my SS to get and put everything together. It was so creative and hilarious and thoughtful. Thank you so much!! My favorite gift was the biography of Ford, I had mentioned that I love biographies, particularly presidential ones. Here's a pic of most of the presents (couldn't fit them all into one pic!)

 

[GoPackGo]

I got an awesome bottle of Belgian Beer, a Cool Beer Glass, and awesome set of Blue Agate Bookends!.... Thanks SS!!

 

[Kaido]

I got SO many things!!! I can't even imagine how long it took for my SS to get and put everything together. It was so creative and hilarious and thoughtful. Thank you so much!! My favorite gift was the biography of Ford, I had mentioned that I love biographies, particularly presidential ones. Here's a pic of most of the presents (couldn't fit them all into one pic!)

Mrs. Kaido helped a bunch, hope you enjoy it :thumbsup:

The Stephen's hot chocolate is liquid gold - use it wisely Also the chocolates are imported Belgium chocolates, so don't let vshah eat them all! :awe:

 

[Baked]

Thanks thestrangebrew1! I looooove the SF Giants Championship hoodie. Been wearing it almost everywhere! And I live in LA! I'm risking my life for this!

 

[manlymatt83]

Thanks again to my secret santa The tea is a mighty fine treat this morning and th e movie was great!

 

[eits]

Thanks again to my secret santa The tea is a mighty fine treat this morning and th e movie was great!

i'm glad you liked them

 

[eits]

Thanks again to my secret santa The tea is a mighty fine treat this morning and th e movie was great!

did you get all items i sent?

 

[MonKENy]

I got my SS

https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/cbd4/

https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8cff/

https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/bb32/

https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/5ac8/ (the magnetic black hole one)

 

[TurtleCrusher]

It looks like next year I'm getting in on this!

 

[CZroe]

Thank you so much Secret Santa!

I got a box covered in duck-tape, just like I wanted!

(am waiting to open the box until Christmass)

It is against postal rules to ship a package with duct tape because it can provide enough compression for an explosion or something. Hope it was shipped with a private carrier or else you are probably on the terrorist watch list.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

It is against postal rules to ship a package with duct tape because it can provide enough compression for an explosion or something. Hope it was shipped with a private carrier or else you are probably on the terrorist watch list.

Hahahah

My extremist communist views might have put me there too...

 

[Gothgar]

It is against postal rules to ship a package with duct tape because it can provide enough compression for an explosion or something. Hope it was shipped with a private carrier or else you are probably on the terrorist watch list.

The trick is to wrap it in another layer, like say, packing paper.

Postalception.

 

[Kaido]

Tobolo got you your gift. (A->B, B->C, C->A) And your welcome.

Got him on PM thanks haha :thumbsup:

 

[Kaido]

It is against postal rules to ship a package with duct tape because it can provide enough compression for an explosion or something. Hope it was shipped with a private carrier or else you are probably on the terrorist watch list.

UPS freaked out on me once for doing that, but they said it's only because duct tape falls apart during shipping (unless it's super-wrapped like that), so they gave me some packing tape.

 

[CZroe]

UPS freaked out on me once for doing that, but they said it's only because duct tape falls apart during shipping (unless it's super-wrapped like that), so they gave me some packing tape.

I imagine that it can cause havoc with their processing equipment if edges lift and gum up the machines.

 

[SKORPI0]

SS 2013 should start earlier to give time for finding the correct gifts and shipping them. Like mid November.

 

[Gillbot]

SS 2013 should start earlier to give time for finding the correct gifts and shipping them. Like mid November.

I agree. Some of the things I wanted to get were out of stock and I didn't have much time to get things delivered.

Had I known there would be a "reveal", I wouldn't have had them shipped to me and re-sent so the receiver wouldn't know where they came from. The would have gotten me an extra week at least, had I just had them shipped directly.

 

[nsafreak]

Well mine came yesterday but I didn't have a chance to pick it up from the apartment management office until today (darn 15 minute drive that turned into an hour & a half trek due to absolutely horrible traffic) so it was with a good deal of anticipation that I opened up the envelope. Found my SS sent me an Arduino Uno developer board which is one of the types of things that I expressed an interest in. I have a slew of interesting projects that I plan on using this board in, now to just get the necessary parts. Thanks SS

 

[jlee]

I really need to post a pic of my stuff. Everything was awesome, too...

 

[Imported]

I really need to post a pic of my stuff. Everything was awesome, too...

Great to know! Had a bit of trouble since I had you last year too.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Thanks thestrangebrew1! I looooove the SF Giants Championship hoodie. Been wearing it almost everywhere! And I live in LA! I'm risking my life for this!

NP! I wasn't sure if you'd want to run around in SF Giants Attire down there in LA but I fig'd I'd leave that up to you lol

 

[harobikes333]

Krazy4Real, thank you for the Cologne, card game, and drinking game book, along with those candies! I played the drinking card game a few weeks ago and it went over pretty well