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Off-Topic : "Bassing"

This guy's post on “Bassing“ is really funny.  Most of all it's funny because I secretly love bassing.  I don't have a good subwoofer in my car or anything, but I still get enormous amounts of pleasure rolling up to pick up my 6-year old from his snooty elementary school with a good Jurassic 5 tune pumpin'.

But, funnier is that I know a few good developers who also like to turn up the tunes.  Even funnier was that scene in Office Space where Michael Bolton is bassing on the highway. 

Funniest is that we're all these geeky software developers just like the Michael Bolton character.  What is it that makes us do this?  It's admittedly a really obnoxious thing to do.  Why are we driven to it? 


Posted Thu, Mar 18 2004 5:43 PM by Brendan Tompkins

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Darrell wrote re: Off-Topic : "Bassing"
on Fri, Mar 19 2004 2:40 AM
You're right, that was funny.

Why do I do it? I love hard-hitting bass. Always have. I think it goes along with enjoying rap and hip-hop. Once you get a taste of some songs on a system with good bass (ie, with subs) listening to it at any lower level without the *thump* sucks.

Of course, my hearing is close to marginal (not quite down to what would be considered loss of hearing, but close), so I try to mellow out some. Strangely, the range of hearing near-loss is approximately the average pitch of a woman's voice. :)

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