I only know his name is Brandon (last kept secret for privacy purposes).

He sent me a letter when it shipped, part of which said, "I hope you enjoy the crap that I acquired for you. You can thank my lab mates for not using shit all and not giving one fuck if I send it to a random stranger on the interwebs!"

I didn't know if he was trolling or not. When I received the package from the front office today, I found out that he was telling the truth.

Inside the box were a bunch of anti-static bags filled with electronic components... Quite the unique set of items, I must say...

And my Santa has quite the sense of humor, as each of the bags had a message on it! :D

Contents are in order of the pictures.

Bag of RAM: All sorts of ram from PC133 to DDR2 Bag says, "These are probably worthless. :P"

Bag of Fiber Optics: Agilent Brand HFBR 5710L Fiber optic chips Bag says, "I'm into networking and have Way too many of these things. Now you have some too. :D"

Bag of Potential Cash?: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Bag says, "You could probably sell this for money FYI!"

Bag of History/Work: Intel 5 MHz C8087-3 processor soldered into some kind of module and a partially used ring of solder wick. Bag says, "(Garbled word) ← NO :| This is a piece of history... I think... Also solder wick because why not?"

Bag of SATA: Two blue transparent SATA cables. Bag says, "I considered sending you hundreds of these. Aren't you glad I didn't?"

Bag of BAGS!: Literally, a bag full of tiny anti-static bags... Bag says, "Have a bag full of bags for good measure!"

And finally

BAG OF SCIENCE!: Filled with a bunch of resistors, capacitors, and other solderables. Bag says, "Use for Science only. NO Evil!!"

Don't really know what to say. Thanks for the "crap", I guess. :D Was a very unique gift, and I had fun researching what all of the stuff is. Now I need to figure out what the heck to do with it. :P