Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Media Blitz

Media

This is about half of my pile of miscellaneous and mostly blank CDs, DVDs, and cases.  I found it unreasonably difficult to move any items into the "get rid of"  (Technotrash) pile, despite having just put several similar items in a "keep just in case" pile. This is troublesome, given that I haven't burned a disk in at least two years.  I don't even know how to on my current laptop.  The problem is, about five years I bought an external CD/DVD device that will digitally label the media, and I did in fact use it a great deal (at the time I was converting LPs and audiotapes and VHS tapes).  Now I am anchored in the idea that these are things that I use, even though I don't anymore, even though I expect that in a few years I will will be using some new storage format.  The blanks I am keeping can be labeled with a Sharpie.  What horrible overseer in my brain thinks it matters how neatly my backup disks are labeled?

After having watched this documentary I am kind of trying to target plastic, and this is all just plastic I don't have any real need for.

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