Overheard

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

“BBFF (Best Bacon Friends Forever)”

“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”

“Ever have something in your teeth that you cannot stop tonguing?”

Comments

Build a playhouse in the backyard with them.

Posted by Rachael  at  9:29 am on Mar. 27, 2006

I vote for #2--everybody wins. Except, you know, the cancer.

Posted by Darren  at  11:03 am on Mar. 27, 2006

I just said last night I was hoping to upgrade my Depeche Mode tapes to CD. And um, my birthday is just around the corner.

Also, for one of my museum programs, I need at least 26 CDs for a kids' recycling project. They are going to make holders for playing cards, thus any bad CDs would be great!

Posted by Maktaaq  at  12:24 pm on Mar. 27, 2006

We have gone the store them in a storage room option. I still fear the RIAA, so they are all safe in boxes in a storage unit in an undisclosed location.

Something about me wants to hoard them and I can't let them go...

Posted by Laura Moncur  at  11:57 am on Mar. 28, 2006

I say mail them to the RIAA, with a letter explaining that you need them to store them for you so you can continue to use the digital copies legally.

Pros: maybe you could start a trend.

Cons: have to pay for postage.

Hmm, maybe there's a business in this... rent a warehouse in some cheap area and keep everyone's physical CDs on file. I'd pay a yearly subscription fee...

Posted by Wesley  at  2:53 pm on Mar. 29, 2006

As an anal-retentive and a quality-conscious music fan, I say keep them. There will someday be lossless formats that produce files no bigger than a 128kbps mp3. then you will need to re-rip.

That possibility already haunts my own dreams...

Posted by Justin  at  4:02 pm on Mar. 29, 2006

I like option 2. Single moms and cancer patients both need them to cheer up. Homeless people without players, less so, but still not a bad idea. That also frees up time from Option 4, which could be better spent showing me how to back up our entire collection without using up all the piddly harddrive space from our laptop!

Posted by hermitdeb  at  6:43 am on Mar. 30, 2006

haven't you always wanted to have 500 coasters? no? hmm... use them to tile your kitchen? put them on chains around your neck to make stylish and funky jewelry? roll them down a hill in races and allow the neighbourhood kids to place bets? man, i am no good at this. my suggestion is to not give them to me because I would do something lame with them.

Posted by sarah  at  5:23 pm on Mar. 31, 2006

Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. I'm surprised no one suggestion I put them all in the microwave...

http://margo.student.utwente.nl/el/microwave/

Posted by Travis Smith  at  6:32 pm on Mar. 31, 2006

How about giving them to a craft company in Edmonton that makes clocks out of old CDs? The company is called Acorn Crafts and the CD clock is here: http://www.acornstudios.ca/products/gifts/cd-clock/index.htm

Posted by James  at  9:06 am on Apr. 6, 2006

donating them to cancer victims, etc., has a certain appeal -- until i stop to think about how many utterly depressing, depressing music cds are part of this collection. i mean, isn't wrong to give someone with terminal cancer "dear god" by XTC? and then there's all that fabulously uplifting the cure...

Posted by Susannah Gardner  at  2:28 pm on Apr. 6, 2006

You SO should have donated them to me. I had many of my cd's (depechmode) stolen and I miss them.

I think you should follow Rachael's suggestion, cuz then I would have somewhere to live if I moved out there!

Posted by Kathryn  at  7:51 pm on Apr. 24, 2006

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