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.

I Planned for This

So here’s the challenge: for my T&C class everyone was given a short story, and instructed to write the ending. The real ending had been cut off. So we’ll bring our endings in and put them in a pile (along … Continue reading

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On Lieing

Lies, I realize, are highly pragmatic. This realization came during a discussion of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, in which the main character, Billy, is a PTSD victim who survives many of the hardships in his life by creating a fanciful … Continue reading

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Tralfamadore

Come, Muse, and sing the song of journey. Sing ye of bright-eyed Odysseus,Man of Pain, setting sail for yonder Troy,Of Private Numeral, auspicious, would-beFather, setting sail for our desTroy.Glory and Pride of the Nation. Sing ye of new beginning: the … Continue reading

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Damn the Man!

Good heavens. I guess I learn something new every day. Today’s lesson: credit card companies are nasty things. So here was my mistake: in December, I paid off my tuition with my credit card, effectively maxing my card out at … Continue reading

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Lily, you’re not our prop pimp daddy!

Ah. What a weekend. Million Dollar Baby / Car fiasco / MSU Basketball game / Kill Bill 2 / Superbowl / Homework and now… sleep. I’m ready for tomorrow. I’m very behind on my corespondence, but that side: My coffee … Continue reading

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Bovard ate my pants.

So it’s 1:31AM in the morning, and I’m leaning back in my chair with my head on another chair, staring at the ceiling. Josh walks out of his room. In inform him that he’s two and a half hours early … Continue reading

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Coffee Degenerate

I’ve recently developed a certain affininty for cream in my coffee. I find this quite disconcerting, since I like to consider myself a “coffee purist,” which the notions of cream and sugar stand in opposition to. Perhaps it has something … Continue reading

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Hailey passed something rather clever on to me today at lunch: A student once remarked, “I knew MSU was the school for me when I skipped class because the slopes opened up and ran in to my professor at the … Continue reading

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Pictures

Photos from my hike on Saturday are available here:http://www.eateggs.com/photos/05.01.29.baldy/

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Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

We re-arranged my room a little a couple days back: It’s been a great weekend (although I’m seven different flavors of sore right now). Yesterday was especially enjoyable. I took off with Mr. Ben (my R.A.) and Josh (one of … Continue reading

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