Yesterday, Becky and I visited the New Orleans Museum of Art. (I will be posting pictures later). I took pictures of things that interested me, and some stuff that Becky wanted reference images of. Among the things I took pictures of were two paintings by the French Orientalist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Though many of Gérôme's paintings are on the web, I was surprised to find out that the two Gérômes held by the New Orleans Museum of Art were not--in fact they weren't mentioned at all as even existing, so I uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons.

• Turkish Bashi Bazouk Mercenaries Playing Chess in a Market Place
  
• The Snake Charmer (Not the famous one that is all over the internet, but a different painting of the same name).
  

Mom, also point Jeff & Russ & everyone at this entry.

Books & DVDs
- Go straight to Amazon wish list
- Steve, wishlist at your Webscriptions account.

Clothes & stuff
- Comfy slippers
- Spiffy t-shirt. Size XL, prefer pretty pictures to clever sayings.
- sweatshirt, size XL, with pretty pictures. Southwest Indian Foundation has some I really like.

Food & Drink
- specialty decaffeinated teas and herbal teas.
- specialty decaff coffees, too.

Gadgets & Widgets
- a new crockpot, somewhat larger.
- Tivo or other DVR.
- new wireless optical mouse for my laptop.
- a new desktop computer, with at least 4GB RAM, DVD burner, good graphics card, 22" flatscreen monitor.
- a nice, sharp, long-bladed letter opener.

House & garden
- some low-light, neglect-tolerant houseplant for my cubicle at work.

More to be added as I think of it...

Other people's wish lists
- Becky's Amazon wish list
- Steve T-shirt size: XXL, Tall.