What did you get for Christmas?

[Snowdog993]

Christmas day!  Out of my curiousity I was wondering what tidbits everyone got for Christmas this year!  I got my Unicomp 103-key for my present a little early this year, and I am very happy with it.

[SpAmRaY]

This sweet shirt.

[TheSven]

Money from my parents, chocolate/sweets, some books, and Electronics for Dummies. Let the soldering begin!

[HairyBob]

This incredibly useful controller phone clip thing.

[billnye]

Clothes, lots of clothes. I also got some desert boots

[Elocutive]

Clothes, boots, and a little help in paying for an LZCE

[Hypersphere]

This.

[faceyourfaces]

This.
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How?

[dustinhxc]

This.
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What!!!?

[Badwrench]

Some new PJs, Socks, Levis, funkopop Stay Puft Marshmallow man, plaid long sleeve shirts, an awesome Dark Tower T-shirt, and these 
(My wife had the grey ones made for me  )





They are from my favorite book series. 

[sethk_]

I got a corsair 450d, a second Dell s2340, pairs of jeans, a hoodie, a Keurig, a pair of Jordan Futures, and a Keurig.

[pexon]

12 bottles of Leffe Blonde, 12 bottles of Brewdog Dead Pony, bottle of Singleton Speyside Single Malt, panini/sandwich press, pestle and mortar, few books, some cash money, few warhammer 40k bits. Time for some drinks and have a read I think

[Doyniish]

I got a Filson backpack I've always wanted for carrying my stuff to class/work. Expensive but a good keepsake that will last my whole life. Very happy!

Christmas by liddictm, on Flickr

[Roibhilin]

homestuck trash

[Touch_It]

Unicomp custom key set and stabilizers for my 4704 107 key.   Also a bunch of nebraska husker gear.  A shark vacuum, wine,docker flip flops, nice dress cloths.  Calvin Klein cologne,  beard oil, and money,  unicomp model m,  along with other small gifts.  I must really be loved. 

Pic of keycaps and keyboard.

[user 18]

homestuck trash

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Nice! Is the Time shirt honouring Dave, Aradia, or one of the minor characters?

I got a bunch of odds and ends, as well as a Novatouch from my sister and a Hakko FX-888D from my parents. It's a lovely iron. I also now understand on a whole different level why people love topre so much, although it does slightly bother me that the tactility doesn't match with the actuation -- I've been missing a couple of keypresses here and there because coming from MX Clears I'm not used to bottoming out. It's nice to type on though, and I'm planning on putting Ivan's black PBTs on it when they arrive.

[Liar]

(Apologize about the picture quality, a potato and a lighter may have produced better results!)

Varmilo VA87M with MX Clears in Side Printed PBT Mint Keycaps
(Similar model available on MD right now)




Coming from Noppoo Choc Mini with Browns, I can see why the fuss about Clears, the hype is real y'all!
And the stock PBT caps feel amazing coming from those slick POMs 

KEYCOOL 22-Key Keypad with Kailh Blacks in Backlit ABS Keycaps



The Black switches feel decent enough, I am not a fan of linear switches, but the force required to press the keys feels very smooth.
Speaking of smooth, the ABS keycaps are slick (not as bad as those POMs) but the Backlit looks great.
It is worth noting that this Keypad came with a set of non-Backlit White PBT Keycaps.
One of my favorite features of this Keypad is the inclusion of Esc, Tab, and Backspace keys - great for data entry!

Oddly, when pressing shift while Num Lock is enabled, the code it outputs is what it would be had the Num Lock been disabled.
For example, Shift+NumPad 7 produces Home - which probably wouldn't be a problem normally, except when I was attempting to assign the Keypad keys to my Razer Naga for WoW Keybinds.
Adapted already I have, avoided death has been.


Both items included Keycap pullers.

I typed this on the Varmilo.  Lightyears better than the MX Browns on the Choc Mini.  Typing errors decreased dramatically already!

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to all my fellow Geek Hackers!

[Roibhilin]

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Nice! Is the Time shirt honouring Dave, Aradia, or one of the minor characters?

I got a bunch of odds and ends, as well as a Novatouch from my sister and a Hakko FX-888D from my parents. It's a lovely iron. I also now understand on a whole different level why people love topre so much, although it does slightly bother me that the tactility doesn't match with the actuation -- I've been missing a couple of keypresses here and there because coming from MX Clears I'm not used to bottoming out. It's nice to type on though, and I'm planning on putting Ivan's black PBTs on it when they arrive.

the Time shirt's honoring dave's extremely belated birthday

[Smasher816]

No keyboard stuff since most of that I ordered myself and is on its way.

Some clothes, a penny board (for travelling around campus), one plus one accessories (orzly glass screen protector, silver bullet ear buds), and some super clean and a gtx 970 (to replace my five year old ati HD5770) for my computer.

Very happy with everything. Got some nice parents and grandparents

[limitz]

OG Cherry Desko set. Looks beautiful and so smooth.

[exitfire401]

Grandparents got me a couch
Mom got me new tires
Fiance got got me the Futurama complete set, let me buy my bros from the recent sale.
Bought myself an Nvidia shield tablet
Got some nice clothes from my in laws.

[dante]

For Christmas I got to have my parents for another year

[eddie.patoni]

For Christmas I got to have my parents for another year

You sir, are da real MVP.

[Findecanor]

My sister gave me a cookbook with recipes from The Hummingbird Bakery - her favourite tea-room in London.

For Christmas I got to have my parents for another year

My dad is dead, so I envy you.

[azhdar]

BeyerDynamics DT770Pro 80ohms, skiing gear, clothes .
Only thing keyboard related is the cash money I got that'll be used on keyboards .

[EvilOliv3]

A new computer

[mougrim]

V60 with Matias Quiet switches

Also, I got in gift bottle of Ardbeg Corryvreckan and bottle of Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port 2009.

[mr.squishy]

SUUUUPER bright green Darksider dimmable light strip for my computer, another nexus 7 2013 (yes I said another, I have 2 now), some sweaters, Lots of what I'm only going to call "ramen supplies", a steam card, an epic lego mug that I can build on,

[honoka]

I got nothing. Guess I need to buy myself something.

[hwood34]

crevo boots, two pairs of jeans (Levis and Naked and Famous), woolf shirts, and a proper lens extender

[Dubsgalore]

 

[phx]

[daerid]

from the in-laws:

[melkenshawn]

from the in-laws:

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Is it supposed to be a pun? I mean i kinda get the bears but i don't really get the beets.

[dante]

Is it supposed to be a pun? I mean i kinda get the bears but i don't really get the beets.

Perhaps some sort of weird way of saying "Take off the condoms - bring us some grand babies!"

[Chromako]

Is it supposed to be a pun? I mean i kinda get the bears but i don't really get the beets.

Perhaps some sort of weird way of saying "Take off the condoms - bring us some grand babies!"

AHAHAHAHA! Good one there 


Me, though? Got myself a Digilog case for my RF, and a GTX 780Ti video card (which is a beast and has actually managed to trip the circuit breaker to my room.... needed to reshuffle the electronics and what outlets they were plugged into to fix that issue)


Happy Christmas!

[abjr]

from the in-laws:

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[crocona]

leather sandles, a tshirt and chocolate... cant complain when im not with family 

[Dihedral]

WASD switch tester (really loving clears, blacks are nicer than expected and greens aren't stupidly heavy like I thought)

Also banggood pbt caps

[Lurch]

the greenest chair

[Altis]

I got nothing. Guess I need to buy myself something.

That's whatboxing week sales are for!

Got an i7 4790K (to replace my old Q6600).

Picked up a few other parts on sale yesterday to make it all work. So far so good but the mic volume is extremely low (common problem with Realtek apparently).

[HPE1000]

Fiance got got me the Futurama complete set, let me buy my bros from the recent sale.

Jealous 

[bigDave]

Nexus 5 and it is awesome.

[sethk_]

I am seeing a lot about box day or boxing day, what is it?

[The_Beast]

Some cash and some wood working tools

[user 18]

I am seeing a lot about box day or boxing day, what is it?

Boxing Day is Dec. 26th, it's a day when stores often have large sales, door crashers, significant markdowns, etc. Usually a lot of good deals to be had. Many stores extend the sales to an entire week, starting on the 24th or so, but the best deals are usually reserved for the 26th, at least around here.

[sethk_]

I am seeing a lot about box day or boxing day, what is it?

Boxing Day is Dec. 26th, it's a day when stores often have large sales, door crashers, significant markdowns, etc. Usually a lot of good deals to be had. Many stores extend the sales to an entire week, starting on the 24th or so, but the best deals are usually reserved for the 26th, at least around here.

Kind of like black Friday I guess but not as insane?

[user 18]

In Canada it tends to be about the same, IME. I hear that black Fridays in the states are already more intense than ours though.

[RoflCopter4]

In Canada Boxing Day is generally worse than Black Friday.

And all I got was clothes. My family is lazy and cheap. At least I got something this year, last year I got nothing and was called a horrible disappintment by basically my whole family. Christmas as an adult sucks.

[melkenshawn]

Didn't really get anything for christmas, but i bought this pullover on boxing day.


It's honestly the best pullover i've had to date.