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I figured we were about there already, but I just confirmed:

Equivalent-quality CD-Rs cost more than DVD-Rs.

I assume this is simply due to economies of scale; I am sure they make a hell of a lot more DVDs than CDs.

I could buy really shitty CDs for about half the price, but I've been down that road; once in the past I simply threw away about 150 blank CDs; they were a total waste of low-quality plastic; just-burned discs would be bad. I've gotten to the point where I only buy Taiyo Yuden discs. If the data isn't worth putting it on good media, it's probably not worth having at all.

I don't go through many CDs these days; a 100 pack lasts me a couple of years. They only get used for OS install CDs, I used one last week to burn a firmware update disc for our DVD player (to fix an HDMI audio problem) or the occasional audio CD. I just got an email that the church needs 25 audio discs copied for VBS in a few weeks, so I had to order more.

Oh, lord

There's a guy at work who's really a sharp guy and is fun to talk with. He's a bit hard to get away from sometimes but I usually don't mind that.

I just went down to ask him a question, and he immediately pulled up a web page ("I gotta show you this!") - it had stainless steel tubes, plexiglas and a lot of blue glowing things, and had the words "hydroxy" and "electrolysis" in it, and a quick glance showed THAT LOOK in his eyes. I know what this means.

I wasn't able to back away quick enough - yes, he's got the "run a car on water" bug, and even blatant sarcasm wasn't able to veer him off the belief that you can get H and O out of H2O at something like 800% efficiency. He's sure there's a good handwavium explanation that circumvents the laws of thermodynamics. Holy crap.

He even started talking about how he had to figure out how to get VC without getting assassinated by the oil companies. Yikes.

He's even got a co-conspirator in another employee down in that building.

I'm staying the HELL away from him for at least 6 months. Honestly, he does stuff like this. He'll probably be alright (by his own standards) eventually.