Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras

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

Category: Life, etc.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Everyone Does This

You’re on the shitter– there’s nothing to read. What do you do?
Pick up the shampoo or toothpaste, procede to read the back.
Prove me wrong.

MP3 Players Are Antisocial

So I’m sitting here at work (tutoring) and since no students are coming in… I’m getting some work done. Well, was getting some work done until I decided to update my shit blog for the first time in over a month.
Anyway, so I’m reading up on the MAX5154 12-bit DAC chip that I’m planning on [...]

Be Good At What You Do

I’m of the opinion that regardless of your job, you should at least put forth some modicum of effort in fulfilling your duties. Every job is important… from being a janitor to a CEO of a Fortune 500 company; obviously certain jobs are more glamorous and desirable… but that’s beside the point.
The thing is, there’s [...]