Author Archives: Mark Egge

About Mark Egge

Transportation planner-adjacent data scientist by day. YIMBY Shoupista on a bicycle by night. Bozeman, MT. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Such is Life

I just spent the last two hours with Jack Horner (see: Jurassic Park, T-Rex soft tissue, etc.). He’s a Texts & Critics fellow (William is one of his students), and tonight he gave a presentation to the T&C classes as … Continue reading

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Words of the Wise (concerning Easy-Mac)

Useful tip #1: 2/3rds of a cup of water is almost exactly equal to 3.5 shots of water (which is the exact amount of water needed for one packet of Easy-Mac). Useful tip #2: When making Easy-Mac, it is far … Continue reading

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No Title

and that’s just it– you reach the point where you have nothing left to give. your eyes are pink and your heart is hollow, and the rain pours down inside and out… and that’s when the piano holds me. the … Continue reading

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Suspicions Confirmed

Ya win some and ya lose some. Right now, I seem to be on the losing end of things. Daylight Savings time… yeah. How ’bout that. I guess there was a reason why, as I set my alarm last night, … Continue reading

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Just my night

Oh, and I think I have pink-eye again. I can’t be sure, but my eyes are very very… pink. Especially the left one. Odd– that’s the eye it started in last time, too. Ug.

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Ishmael

Good heavens, this book is making me upset. It’s so damned presumptuous and arrogant. Daniel Quinn (could that be a pseudo name for Dan Brown, I wonder?) has laid no groundwork or foundation for his audacious claims (that the journey … Continue reading

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Bland

I’ve been increasingly breaking more and more pieces of my blog. Rather than fixing it, I decided that I would say the heck with it and move on to the new version of the source code. So things are ugly. … Continue reading

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Spaghetti and Blankets

This afternoon was such a waste. I went to work with Ishmael intending to read for four hours, and ended up reading blogs for… four hours. Well, almost: I also pushed in a bunch of chairs and changed three clocks. … Continue reading

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Stop Culture

My Texts & Critics project is finally complete. The goal was to draw my viewer into my world as an eightteen-year-old-Montana-State-freshman. It was drawn from over 700 still photos taken over the last few weeks (as well as a number … Continue reading

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Terri Shiavo’s Blog

William pointed me to one of the funniest things that I’ve seen in a long time: http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/ I’m still laughing.

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