Records & Taxes
Todd Dominey reminds me of a reformed Rob Gordon. He writes that he’s ripping all of his CDs onto USB drives and then selling the physical copies. (Rob Gordon and his real-life counterparts prefer vinyl and likely don’t have a computer, but…)
It’s illegal (selling the physical copies and keeping the digital ones around), but other than that it sounds like a good plan. I only have a few hundred CDs, and I bought a bunch of zippered boxes to organize them in, but that’s still an awful lot of storage space to lose. And if you can sell them and sleep at night, you can probably make the USB hard drive(s) pay for themselves.
In other news, I noticed today that the Gwinnett County Board of Education is taking student input more seriously. Consider the title of their recent resolution, “A Taxing Situation: The Effect of Replacing School Property Tax with a 3-Cent Sales Tax.” Taxing Situation? Surely this is the product of an awfully clever 10th grade Language Arts student. Make sure that kids gets in J.E. English!