BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s

Subject: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: open mike
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 03:42 PM

i am drilling holes in them, attaching fishing line and swivels
and using them to scare birds away from my cherry tree!
I also think they make great coasters, and have heard that you
can use them to bounce an infra red beam off of so you can
use your remote control from another room and point to the c.d.
and angle the signal to the device you are controlling (like a mirror).
and here is a way to make http://www.hamjudo.com/notes/cdrom.html an
interesting design on them--beware this may not be good for your micro wave. I also have made name tags out of them....any other ideas out there?

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 03:46 PM

You can just paper the wall with them, as well! -- they make a nice reflective pattern.

A

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 03:47 PM

If they come in those nice metal boxes, save the boxes. Relabeled, they're great for passing along homemade CDs.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 03:52 PM

I save the boxes and we use the CDs for coasters.

I liked it a whole lot better back in the days when they sent 3 1/2 inch floppies. I could erase the AOL stuff and reuse them. I still have a stack of about thirty. Still using them.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:08 PM

Isn't the whole point of a coaster that is supposed to be absorbent???

Seems like a CD is totally wrong for the job...

About 2 years ago, I recall hearing about a couple of guys who were collecting a million of them... They were then gonna send 'em BACK to AOL and ask the to please stop...

Donno what ever happened...

I just pitch mine straight into the trash like I do with all other forms of spam...

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:28 PM

Good frisbees ... fun until someone loses an eye.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: GUEST,Shlio
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:46 PM

Stick it on a cucumber and put it on an occasional table. Call it a "conversation piece".

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 05:25 PM

This thread is so comforting. I am still unpacking after moving a year and a half ago. And in every box I find an AOL CD in a tin. I saved them to use as coasters and figure to sell them on eBay in about ten years as "are and valuable". I have at least 30 some for 3.0.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: GUEST,earthling
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 05:40 PM

Glue two together, writing side together, so you are left with the nice shiny sides....put length of wool or the like through the middle and hey presto.........hanging nursery mobiles.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: open mike
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 06:02 PM

oh yes i forgat about the christmas tree decoration possibilities...
and how about propping behind candles to reflect the light?
then there is this use: find a way to balance them on a drill bit
(i find that they can be attached by way of a cork whittled to size)
and then attach a piece of paper, turn drill bit side up and
spin while paper while squirting paint on it..
remember those paintings you used to be able to do at
carnivals where they would spin a paper while applying paint?
we play a game at music camps with washers...and cups in the ground
we call it texas washers...it is like a cross between croquet and golf.
i hear there is a thing called frisbee golf...perhaps discs would work for this...yes disc golf is the latest thing...

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Gareth
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:12 PM

Treat them like Bhodrans

ie "Pull"

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:23 PM

1. Glued overlapping to a ring of wood or styrofoam, they make a really cool wreath. (reflective side up, of course) Trim with a bow of coiled phone wire or whatever. Especially effective to cheer up an office. Really! We were given one and gotten tons of unsolicited compliments and smiles.

2. Also at Christmas: Take a nicely shaped bare bush and poke the ends of the branches through the holes in the disks. Spread evenly around the bush. Daytime, the sunlight glints brilliantly off them as they jiggle in the breeze. For added panache at night, run twinkle lights around the thing too, so that the disks reflect the twinklies at night. You can center the lights on the disks if you're tidy, or just recklessly drape them.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 07:25 PM

My daughter taped a bunch of them to her closet door, shiny side out. They made a great mirror until the tape started to pull loose.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: GUEST,Lyle
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 09:06 PM

Collect them and give them to your local middle school/high school science teachers. Finding the distance between "grooves" by reflected light colors is a neat project. Also compare light reflections from cds and dvds, and compare commercial cds with recordable cds.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 09:12 PM

It occurs to me you could make great spinning tops out of them.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:37 PM

I give them to a friend, and she gives them to an organization that helps the down-and-out find jobs over the Net. They use the 100 hours and move on.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 10:12 AM

a friend of mine engraves them with intricate designs and fits them on a particular round nightlight which is the right size, so they are backlit.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 10:37 AM

I've seen the kids engrave them also. Good idea, Fred! But one can use only so many nightlights--

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 01:09 PM

Whether or not a coaster should be absorbent is a moot point. The main point of a coaster is to keep from getting rings on the furniture, and AOL CDs work just fine. If you're a sloppy drinker, even an absorbent coaster won't help much. If the drink is cold and the glass is frosty, an absorbent coaster would be better. Either that, or don't set it down on furniture where it will make rings(e.g., our coffee table has a sheet of glass on top).

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Schantieman
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 10:56 AM

Hang 'em in the garden to scare the birds off your crops or above the boom of your boat to stop the gull crapping on the coachroof.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: NH Dave
Date: 01 May 04 - 10:39 AM

Insert an inexpensive clock movement in the center, inscribe the hour markings around the edge for the terminally challenged and give the resulting clock to computer friends of low taste.

Use them as cheap skeet targets.

Fasten small mesh gauze across the hub hole and use them as signal mirrors for Scouts and other outdoors folks - the gauze allows easier aiming.

Use them as cheap large reflectors on pilings, fence posts, oak trees, rocks,and other imovable objects that tend to jump out into the path of unwary boaters, cyclists, snow plow operators, or people too simple to breath. Along the same line, fasten a couple in the rear window or bumber of automobiles as cheap reflectors should the tail lights fail.

Hang them off spans of cable, crossing large open spaces, as cheap warning to helicopters, crop dusters, and other low flying aircraft, or Uncle Fred on his way home from the pub. Although they are too small to be seen by fast movers, before they are overtaken, their reflections will alert pilots that SOMETHING out of the ordinary is ahead, in time to avoid the hazard.

DAve

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 04 - 11:48 AM

With only 1,600 of them you can make a solar furnace that can burn holes through cars 100 feet away...weather permitting.

Or you can heat water.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Cluin
Date: 01 May 04 - 03:39 PM

Wire a couple together to make some really freaky sunglasses.

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 May 04 - 04:29 PM

I'd like to echo what Sinsull said above - this thread is so comforting. Gee, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Trouble is, some of the ideas are so good that I may start saving AOL CD's...
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 01 May 04 - 05:01 PM

Nail four across your letterbox, then bin the rest. Two birds with one stone.....Ho Hum!

Don

Subject: RE: BS: what to do with AOL 100 hour free c.d.'s
From: Tig
Date: 02 May 04 - 01:12 PM

I happpen to know a dragon who's front scales are made entirely of quartered free CD's. Makes for wonderful reflections when he breathes fire.