Grabbing up the old idea net...
Aug. 2nd, 2004 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursangnomeOkay, I'm a geek. A big geek. A big geek lucky enough to have found a lovely (and somewhat geeky) Lady interested in marrying me. So, there's going to be a wedding.
As part of that whole rigmarole, I've got my half of the wedding party, who I refer to as my Groom's Goons. These gents are my good friends, and I want to thank them for standing by me in this. So, I'm on the search for Goon's Gifts.
I want to give them something lasting - gifts that are perishable or that get used up seem... inauspicious for a wedding, and won't be around later as a remembrance. I'd like it to be something that, when they see it, who it came from will pop to mind. So, it probably ought to be a bit geeky. And these guys deserve a bit more thought and effort and originality than a standard pen and pencil set, or plain engraved money clip.
Finding such a thing isn't as easy as it sounds. While they are my friends, none of them are really die-hard geeks themselves. Sure, they occasionally read sci-fi, and like the popular genre movies, and they've all at least tried a hand at RPGs. But they aren't a bunch of hardcore fen/tech-junkies. I found myself stuck in a bit of a rut of thought in looking for gifts.
Being a brainy monkey, I realized that while these guys deserve decent thought on the subject, it doesn't need to be my own personal thought. Using a network to search out ideas counts as effort on my part. I asked my Lady if she had ideas, and she gave me a splendid one. Which led me to wonder what other ideas I could dredge up if I ask around.
So, you're looking for slightly geeky Groom's Goons Gifts. Where do you look, and what do you go for?
As part of that whole rigmarole, I've got my half of the wedding party, who I refer to as my Groom's Goons. These gents are my good friends, and I want to thank them for standing by me in this. So, I'm on the search for Goon's Gifts.
I want to give them something lasting - gifts that are perishable or that get used up seem... inauspicious for a wedding, and won't be around later as a remembrance. I'd like it to be something that, when they see it, who it came from will pop to mind. So, it probably ought to be a bit geeky. And these guys deserve a bit more thought and effort and originality than a standard pen and pencil set, or plain engraved money clip.
Finding such a thing isn't as easy as it sounds. While they are my friends, none of them are really die-hard geeks themselves. Sure, they occasionally read sci-fi, and like the popular genre movies, and they've all at least tried a hand at RPGs. But they aren't a bunch of hardcore fen/tech-junkies. I found myself stuck in a bit of a rut of thought in looking for gifts.
Being a brainy monkey, I realized that while these guys deserve decent thought on the subject, it doesn't need to be my own personal thought. Using a network to search out ideas counts as effort on my part. I asked my Lady if she had ideas, and she gave me a splendid one. Which led me to wonder what other ideas I could dredge up if I ask around.
So, you're looking for slightly geeky Groom's Goons Gifts. Where do you look, and what do you go for?
