Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras

Brandon Valosek's reflections on life, philosophy, and programming

Brandon

Great Movie Trailers

I love getting hyped up about things– and movies are no exception. Over the last few years, I feel like movie trailers have gotten better at getting me psyched up for a film. Or maybe I just have become increasingly better at getting myself worked up over such things… either way… here are a few [...]

I Suck At Blogging

My previous blog post, honestly, sucked. Sorry to anybody unfortunate enough to waste 130 seconds of their life reading it. If you, dear reader, can ever forgive me… then the quality of my blogs ought to improve over the next few weeks as I get used to expressing myself in written [...]

A Curious Phenomenon

Sometimes, it seems, people ignore minuscule annoyances for such an extended period of time that the effort required to solve the issue is significantly less than the sum total of inconvenience caused.
Fixing the problem almost always leads to thinking “Damn, I wish I had done that earlier”. Why do people do that? Maybe everyone has [...]

CNCStats PHP Library

Since I was but a wee lad I’ve been playing Command & Conquer games, but even before that I was a giant computer nerd.
I created the site www.cncboards.net to allow CnC players to track their stats and match history, as well as view detailed ranked ladder info. This sort of code could be useful to [...]

Biggest Insult To Music

There honestly are very few things worse when it comes to music than the un-synchronized push/pull shitstorm that is the audience clapping along to a live song. Whether its a 500-person congregation of upper-middle-class white protestant sheeple clapping along to ‘Lord I Lift Your Name On High” or the Canadian-infused audience at the figure skating [...]