What Did you Get/Give for Christmas?

[Rush]

Post up your lists you greedy sunsabitches. Some people do christmas early due to scheduling/work, etc. I'll post up my list when I get some time (retail )

What did you get/give this season?

 

[inactiveuser1]

only gotten one early gift, it was this awesome Bears hoodie :yeah:

 

[Globetrotter]

Got the wife a new iPad and a Kate Spade bag..

I got a Eotech G33 magnifier and some tools.

 

[Hbkrusso]

I got new pants and socks the kids got hundreds of dollars worth of electronics. the wife chose 300 bucks cash to do with whatever she liked and im sittin here lookin at my new work pants like wtf

 

[R_Mac_1]

Got my mom a tablet so she can Skype us now that we live far away. Also bought a tablet for ourselves. Got the wife some picture frames she wanted and a Pandora bracelet. Kids got a bunch of stuff but the highlights are a Nexus 7 tablet, rc car (cheap hobby grade), Lego sets, big camping tent and Disney infinity game and characters.


I didn't ask for much beings I just got a ps4. Asked for a ps4 controller and charging dock. Also asked for a lawn edger. That's about it.

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[R_Mac_1]

Double

 

[X]

Have Christmas 1 on Monday night (no gifts), Christmas 2 on Tuesday, where money will be the primary gift received (it's her parents' Christmas, and I have no idea what 'we' got them), nothing on Christmas Day...a Birthday party for her sister on Thursday...My family Christmas on Friday (again, money...mom gets a new recliner...I'll get some tools and such...Grandma gets her cuckoo clock repaired....) and the longest Christmas in the history of Christmas on Saturday (830am-11pm) with 40+ ppl on my Mom's side of the family...money...

 

[Omeletpants]

I will give the gift of Bear's history to everyone for Christmas

 

[nickofypres]

Bought my dad a grill, my mom a $100 gift card to her favourite bar. My nieces got a Little Mermaid costume, and a Hello Kitty doll. And I bought my cousin a $5 gas card (We cap it at $5), and my aunt Michael Jackson's greatest hits CD.

 

[Omeletpants]

You bought your mom a gift card to a bar? What is she, Ma Barker?

 

[AuCN]

I got the wife a smoker. It's not like giving a vacuum though. She is from Texas and misses smoking food. And I will reap the benefits too! Hooray!

 

[Iwritecode]

My youngest is getting a bunch of Monster High dolls. The older two are getting tablets and some clothes and music they picked out.

Wife is getting a Kindle HD, bears hoodie and a couple of CDs.

I’m getting a Dewalt cordless drill, a Sox hoodie, and probably a few smaller things.

Pretty much everyone in our house has a good idea of what they are getting. It’s almost nice when the kids grow out of the Santa phase. Although they’ve gotten more difficult to shop for as they’ve gotten older.

We’ve discovered that we have enough wrapping paper to last about another 10 years.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Bought the lady an acoustic guitar. Daughter got a swing set and a bunch of other crap. Stepson is getting a car.

 

[Ares]

I got to go to a free Hawks game with my brother inlaw and he got me a gift set of Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey, that was one family grab bag. Then on the other grab bag I got a Tillman jersey and this handmade Bears plaque thingy my other brother inlaw made me AND he went to the Binny's opening in EP to get it signed by Ditka. Now after this I got like 4 gift cards (aunt, mom, dad grandma), a pair of Bears beer glasses from my 11 year old cousin (my aunt) and a Hawks blanket (other aunt). Honestly, I appreciate it all, but at this point in my life I would be more than happy with 2 gifts from 2 grab bags and thats it, but my mom and dad are divorced and always get me and my 2 sisters stuff, and no matter how much I protest my sisters and aunts always buy more stuff for more people than they are supposed to. I love em, but they crazy.

Now where I sound like an ass cause I don't buy crazy on Christmas.... I got my Uncle in one grab bag and my brother inlaw in the other. I got my Uncle a 12 year Aged bottle of Jameson and made him some Apple Pie shots (he always wants those). Then I got my brother inlaw a whiskey decanter and a bottle of Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey. I got my Dad a Hawks shirt jersey (Hossa) and a new Blackhawks hoodie. And finally I chipped in for a playset for my Niece and video games for my 11 year old cousin. I couldn't come up with a gift for my mom and she kept saying not to get her anything so I think I will just make a point of taking her out for dinner one night on me of course.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Got my friends one of those discs made out of thread with a hole in the middle that can fold up and stuff.

I got CHROMECAST BITCHES.

 

[Capt. Serious]

Call me an idiot or whatever, the **** is Chromecast?

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Call me an idiot or whatever, the **** is Chromecast?

Basically it lets your TV output the stuff you're doing on your chrome browser. That's not really new(you can just use an HDMI cable, and an appropiate adapter if you don't have an HDMI port on your computer like mine bc it's a Mac), but this is WIRELESS. All you need to do is configure your TV, and then it can use Wi-fi to pick up your interface on the TV.


You have to plug in a flashdrive device into the computer and TV, but still, wireless>>>>>>

 

[Ares]

Basically it lets your TV output the stuff you're doing on your chrome browser. That's not really new(you can just use an HDMI cable, and an appropiate adapter if you don't have an HDMI port on your computer like mine bc it's a Mac), but this is WIRELESS. All you need to do is configure your TV, and then it can use Wi-fi to pick up your interface on the TV.


You have to plug in a flashdrive device into the computer and TV, but still, wireless>>>>>>

I don't think people realize what a challenge this is lol.... I have a Sony Smart TV and a nice wireless setup at my house and I spent almost an entire Saturday trying to figure out a solution which would allow me to stream the content playing on my desktop upstairs in my office through Wifi to my Smart TV connected to the same Wifi downstairs and in the end I unplugged the desktop, sat it on a bar stool next to where the TV is mounted, and connected it via an HDMI cable.

It seemed like such a simple thing, stream your computer screen through your wifi.... and it is, but getting your TV to pick it up is the *****, as far as I can tell there is no built in mechanism to do it easily. There is screen sharing which works off a built in protocol between the TV and certain devices like some phones/tablets. The TV can connect to the Wifi and stream media from any of my computers, but it has to be pre-existing media like a video or audio file, so I tried to stream my desktop content to a file which then I tried to get the TV to play, but that did not work. I believe in the end I found a way to do it with this Tversity program, but streaming high quality video was so taxing on my desktop that it would peg all the CPUs and cause the mofo to completely freeze and the content would stutter and freeze. I could probably do it with more processing power in my desktop but in the end I chose the quick/dirty solution.

That rant aside, I believe Chromecast works via shorter range bluetooth does it not? I think I saw that option but it was not viable since the desktop is upstairs with a wall between it and the TV so the Chromast adapters would be unable to connect to one another or have a shitty signal at best?

EDIT: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/

That does indeed say WiFi.... I must have looked at some other solutions that used bluetooth cause I know I saw one like that, but I think Chromecast is exactly what I need at my house

 

[Ares]

In stock at my Best Buy.... 35$... thats it! I woulda spent 100$ to solve this pain in the ass problem a couple months ago.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

I don't think people realize what a challenge this is lol.... I have a Sony Smart TV and a nice wireless setup at my house and I spent almost an entire Saturday trying to figure out a solution which would allow me to stream the content playing on my desktop upstairs in my office through Wifi to my Smart TV connected to the same Wifi downstairs and in the end I unplugged the desktop, sat it on a bar stool next to where the TV is mounted, and connected it via an HDMI cable.

It seemed like such a simple thing, stream your computer screen through your wifi.... and it is, but getting your TV to pick it up is the *****, as far as I can tell there is no built in mechanism to do it easily. There is screen sharing which works off a built in protocol between the TV and certain devices like some phones/tablets. The TV can connect to the Wifi and stream media from any of my computers, but it has to be pre-existing media like a video or audio file, so I tried to stream my desktop content to a file which then I tried to get the TV to play, but that did not work. I believe in the end I found a way to do it with this Tversity program, but streaming high quality video was so taxing on my desktop that it would peg all the CPUs and cause the mofo to completely freeze and the content would stutter and freeze. I could probably do it with more processing power in my desktop but in the end I chose the quick/dirty solution.

That rant aside, I believe Chromecast works via shorter range bluetooth does it not? I think I saw that option but it was not viable since the desktop is upstairs with a wall between it and the TV so the Chromast adapters would be unable to connect to one another or have a shitty signal at best?

EDIT: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/

That does indeed say WiFi.... I must have looked at some other solutions that used bluetooth cause I know I saw one like that, but I think Chromecast is exactly what I need at my house

Yea, it's wi-fi haha. That's why my mom couldn't configure her TV(she got a chromecast for herself), our Wi-fi signal is almost nonexistent in the master bedroom.