Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras

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

Category: Observations

Rejoining Humanity

As this semester is (finally) drawing to a close, I’m anxiously awaiting to rejoin the ranks of humanity any day now. I’ve developed the bad habit lately of completely and utterly throwing any resemblance of a regular biological cycle out the window… and it’s definitely caught up to me.
My sleep schedule will slosh around throughout [...]

Food For Thought Diarrhea

The ratio of hunger satisfaction and taste to cost in both time and money for preparing typical college meals such as Rice-a-Roni and Ramen noodles is impressively high. The vanishingly small denominator makes up for the less-than-impressive numerator mostly, but that is beside the fact.
I hope the lack of nutrition I’ve experienced for the past [...]

Airport People

It seems like the airport harbors a more widely distributed demographic than any other place. No where else does it seem like there is a completely random distribution of all ages, colors, and wealth all around you.
It makes sense because everyone needs to fly (almost), it’s not that expensive (sorta), and since there’s not an [...]

The Joy of Doing Nothing

Nothing– no projects, homework, deadlines, assignments, work, or other collegiate responsibilities. At least temporarily.
Temporarily spared from waking up at any certain time (mostly), from walking 20 minutes to class, and from sitting in long lectures meagerly listening and longing to do…
Nothing.
Of course I ought to be doing… something. Like said projects, homework, and assignments… but [...]

Awkward Faces

Do you ever catch yourself making a terribly awkward face? For example… maybe it’s that funny movie you’ve seen 30 times with your friends, and the lead character just made (yet another) humorous reference to breasts… so you laugh.
Approximately 1.3 seconds later the joyous smile has faded from your face… but with your eyes glued [...]