HOLD IT! Last minute gifts for one's nerd minions

Late? Not according to my corporate NTP server, sonny

If you want to get Trevor something ...

As a side note, anyone seeking to get the author of this piece a Micron goodie, and who happens to have an unlimited budget, should consider stepping up from the M600 to a P420M, a PCI-E SSD that I can only describe as life changingly fast. On the consumer side of things one SSD will usually do, but on the server side two is always the minimum, as then the units can be used in a two node cluster.

Fireproof, waterproof...nerdproof?

If an SSD can help your nerds work faster, the ioSafe Solo G3 is to help them work safer. Help them make sure their important documents survive the inevitable caffeine temple-related office apocalypse by giving them a place to store their files that can withstand both conflagration and submersion.

Yoga Pro 3: also comes in terrifying bright orange

If you are feeling really generous, you could get them a notebook, tablet or hybrid computer. If you want to follow Aussie sysadmin Aaron Milne's advice you'd make that device a Lenovo Yoga Pro 2. I've personally been disenfranchised with Lenovo ever since my x230's plastic chassis disintegrated, but he's stumbled upon a Yoga Pro 2 and insists it's the best thing since the reintroduction of the Start Menu.

Office Adornment

If you want to get more work out of your nerds you need to make their office feel like a home. The best way to do that is to help them personalise it. No boss wants the office cluttered up with knick-knacks, but a book of brain teaser puzzles or the odd poster can go a long way to allowing the nerds to claim their territory without the place giving the executive layer coronaries.

Sadly, there are no entries for the speed of sheep in a vacuum

Fun and engaging, Randall Munroe's XKCD What If Book is perfectly practical. Your nerds will want to read it themselves, but it's also the sort of thing you can hand off to the impatient sorts waiting in the office, tapping their feet. Think of it as a tension reducer that not only entertains your nerds, it may prevent them from being strangled for failure to solve some problem fast enough.

Some bears just want to watch the world burn

In the realm of territory-claiming posters that will probably just barely squeak by the executive layer's standards, consider The Oatmeal's Sriracha Flamethrower Grizzly.

A grizzly bear with a Sriracha flamethrower is not as overtly nerdy as the sorts of posters you'll find on Thinkgeek, but that's the point. It is inclusively engaging while still being a stamp of nerdliness. It provides a common point of discussion for nerds and non-nerds alike, hopefully helping with that ever important team building.