I have some cool little key carabiners that I would have appreciated at any age

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    A CD-ROM filled with advice, requirements, financial planning (nothing outrageous), a plethora of medical advice in regards to depression and ADHD, and a few books in PDF form. Also, a laundry list of “no no’s”.

    700mb can go a long way in this situation. I’ve thought about it before.

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      I’m always amazed how little space it takes to store huge amounts of plain text. Especially when it’s compressed. That old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is off by a few orders of magnitude.

      • I remember when CDROMs were first introduced, and available on computers. The advertising blurb was, “able to fit the ENTIRE Encyclopaedia Britanica on ONE disk!” I’ll admit, I was pretty impressed, but this was before I had any idea about how information dense the written word is compared to other media.

        People used to like to say a picture is worth a thousand words. You can’t have much of a picture in 5kB.

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          I remember being little and adding a 10mb hdd to my first PC and my dad saying “who could ever use all this space??”

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      Oh. I would be interested in that! A post/comment from you with the advice, requirements, medical advice pertaining to depression and adhd and a “laundry list of no-nos”. Please do say!

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        I have not forgotten about your request. Give me time to collect my thoughts, make sure they’re cogent, and generally applicable to those who may read it.