while I would love to say something like: megan fox, I'm afraid that counts as "human contact" so I'll leave that.
instead, I think either plenty of reading matirial (maybe novels, or something to learn, I'm not fussy)
or in a similar vein to east coaster, a still. but I would prefer it to look a bit like the one from the t.v. series M*A*S*H* (i.e. made out of glass tubes and bits of rubber pipe) and for it to come in kit form. then I can spend some time putting the thing together, and when bored can watch the liquid run through the system, it might be something a little more intersting than staring at the roof of the hut.