Author: Mark Egge

Guess I didn’t really need that cup of coffee … Nope. The time is now 3:30 am … and I’m seven flavors of WIRED. And not the magazine, mind you. I should just get up and do something productive. I’ve exhausted the internet. But it’s so warm in my bed… Actually, today’s XKCD is rather […]

Good heavens. Microsoft Excel is profoundly worthless for trying to do any sort of statistical analysis other than the most painfully rudimentary. And, for that matter, Excel is really profoundly worthless for most of its intended functions. As a basic spreadsheet cruncher, it’s semi-functional, but it produces painfully ugly graphs which, at least as of […]

Ah! So, here I am, working on another blog post (coming soon?), lying on my stomach in the living room, as I do, (sipping on bottle of Santa Rita 120 Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 – fruity, full body, but with a flat bouquet and a harsh, gritty finish. Good, but doesn’t seem to deserve the W&S […]

Last night was the third and final presidential debate. From the Huffington Post: The results over at CBS show Obama to have scored the biggest victory to date: “Fifty-three percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified Democratic nominee Barack Obama as the winner of tonight’s debate. Twenty-two percent said Republican rival John McCain won. Twenty-four […]

As I write, it’s 34 degrees F outside, and snowing. Snowing! In any case, it’s COLD outside. My rental unit came with a natural gas fireplace. When we rented the unit, I asked the landlord if the fireplace worked, since many rental units simply have their fireplaces disabled. She thought it did, and I was […]