Ever create more work than it was worth?

Rumor has it that Chad Fernandez may have mentioned these words: I've known for years that they can do that - especially the early ones. My ex-boss (who was a frelling idiot) told me "there was nothing I could do to a CD-ROM that would cause a drive not to read it." (this was back when 4x was king, and CD's were made one helluvalot tougher... ROM drives could read thru a lot more scratches back then) I took the disk in 1 hand, flexed it until the tips touched, pushed just a little harder, and ***Pow***! The thing sounded like a firecracker, and literally *shattered* like glass. My response: "I *really* wanna see you get the data off of that disk now." -- I still to this day don't know if he actually *needed* the data from the disk... ;^> but he probably did, as he turned 72 shades of purple... ;^> Well, I wouldn't eat it if I were you... ;-P IIRC, the "gold" disks which are actually gold probably wouldn't hurt you, but the "silver" disks contain aluminum (I think) which would be poisonous to plants, and I think some of the dyes used in the green/blue disks might contain unhealthy components. I have *no* clue what CD-RW disks use - other than it's a really, *really* cool shade of gun-metal gray... (gray is my favo[u]rite color.) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.