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.

Your daily Douglas Adams

So as I was reading The Restaurant At the End of the Universe, and I’ve came upon a rather clever section. It reads: “I always thought that about the Garden of Eden story,” said Ford.“Eh?”“Garden of Eden. Tree. Apple. That … Continue reading

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Why?

So I discovered an error in my script today. Comments posted by anonymous users could be deleted by any user who was not logged in. This was brought to my attention when I noticed that all of the anonymously posted … Continue reading

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Support our troops. Bring them home.

And so here’s what terrifies me: I guess it didn’t really strike me as much at the time: Bush’s administration finally announced what many of us had known for quite some time: there were no weapons of mass destruction in … Continue reading

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I love myself sometimes.

So. At 9:37AM I wake up and roll out of bed. I put some clothes on, grabbed my laptop (literally just my laptop– no bag, no books, no pen, etc.), walked to class, sat down, opened up the laptop, talked … Continue reading

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Another random thought

As I was reading Kindred (a dreadfully banal pseudo-science fiction book for my T&C class) I was struck by one of the characters responding “no” when asked “are you alright.” This struck me because, although I’ve heard people say no … Continue reading

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Creative story thing results

Well, the results are in for the “I Planned For This” story endings. (See: http://www.eateggs.com/index.php?id=258) In order of appearance, the authors are:MyselfBubien, the real authorMeekyungBovard Thanks for everyone who contributed an ending! In my T&C class I managed to beat … Continue reading

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Version 2.995

Blog has reached version 2.995. There has been a minor interface revision and the links page is up as well.

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More from the Walmart rampage

JadeRobbins wrote:Yeah but you sit on your ass and surf the Internet all day for your job. Remember Mark, some people think that money will just appear into people’s hands, but no that doesn’t happen, it would have to come … Continue reading

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A Case of the Mondays

It’s 8:36AM on a Monday morning. I don’t have any obligations until 9:00AM, and yet I’m up, showered, and have enough free time to post on my blog. This is terrible. Well, like I said: it’s Monday morning. It must … Continue reading

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Walmart. Ug.

Since I frequently include my blog in outside discussions, I figure it’s about time to include an outside discussion in my blog. Just because it’s interesting, here’s a bit of conversation from a work discussion about Walmart closing down a … Continue reading

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