I find this very interesting, because it's true of myself - I am very, very fastidious about my home and work environments, and will not purchase or keep items I can't neatly store or don't have any genuine need for. My wife scolds me for constantly throwing away stuff.:-)
That being said, I am almost the polar opposite with data - my Mac at home has 4 120GB storage drives in it (in addition to the 80GB main), all four of which are nearly full. Music, some of my DVD's I've ripped, a huge cache of programs and tools I use on a regular basis, and want a local archive of - I love hoarding data, even if it's not of immediate use (never know when you'll need that complete site rip of Cryptome.org, right? From a MIRROR, thank you very much -:P) And no pr0n/disk space jokes, please.;)
The non-physical-space-sucking nature of data lets me indulge any packratted-ness I have (and I must have some - my mother is an atrocious pack rat!) while letting me keep my physical environment clean.
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I find this very interesting, because it's true of myself - I am very, very fastidious about my home and work environments, and will not purchase or keep items I can't neatly store or don't have any genuine need for. My wife scolds me for constantly throwing away stuff. :-)
:P) And no pr0n/disk space jokes, please. ;)
That being said, I am almost the polar opposite with data - my Mac at home has 4 120GB storage drives in it (in addition to the 80GB main), all four of which are nearly full. Music, some of my DVD's I've ripped, a huge cache of programs and tools I use on a regular basis, and want a local archive of - I love hoarding data, even if it's not of immediate use (never know when you'll need that complete site rip of Cryptome.org, right? From a MIRROR, thank you very much -
The non-physical-space-sucking nature of data lets me indulge any packratted-ness I have (and I must have some - my mother is an atrocious pack rat!) while letting me keep my physical environment clean.