Mark Pike

Once again, I will preemptively post an email I have sent out in an effort to show hackers that I really have nothing interesting to say…
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Yo,
If April showers brings May flowers, then March madness brings April sadness.
My parents came to visit me too this weekend. For some reason, reservations were made for a fancy dinner [...]

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We ran out of challah bread last Friday night. The neighborhood Jewish community was coming by to pick up loaves for Shabbat dinner, but all we had left was French baguettes. At least 10 families requested a loaf of the braided egg bread for next week’s Shabbat. I told the owners that it’s somewhat of [...]

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Law schools are just starting to send out their decisions. In the past week, I have been accepted to 3 schools and waitlisted at 2. I am hoping that being on a waitlist is a lot like being somebody’s second choice for prom. The chances are, most of the hot people were asked months in [...]

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…like a fish needs a bicycle…
It’s tough being a bike messenger withought a bike. I guess that just makes me a messenger. Also, as a subpoena server, I don’t have too much of a message except, “You are being served this subpoena”.
I ride the bus to various hospitals and offices to deliver envelopes. In [...]

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The bakery is owned and operated by a pair of Greek brothers, and many of our bakers are Greek as well. That being said, I’m not quite sure if St. Patrick’s Day is our forte. Or as they like to call it, Irish Day, which confuses the hell out of our customers.
A man and his [...]

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I learned how to read by looking for the Yankees box score every morning in the newspaper. I would announce Don Mattingly’s batting average at the breakfast table and the day had begun. “Yankees win, 7-4. Mattingly was two for four, with 3 RBIs and a HR” was like an ecclesiastical declaration of “let there [...]

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This is an article I wrote for a Journalism Class at Duke in 2002 about getting in to Duke Basketball games when you don’t have tickets.
This is an excellent article Dana Vachon (Duke ‘02) wrote for the New York Times about bribing and scalping in New York City.
This is my story from last evening…
I stalked [...]

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Fun with Missed Connections…
Location: S2 Bus, 16th Street. NW
You: Sat down across from me on the bus. I noticed your shoes immediately, and said, “Nice kicks”. You smiled and said “thank you”, flattered that I appreciated your sense of style. Twenty seconds later you noticed I was wearing the same exact shoes as you [...]

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One of my jobs is to put icing on the cakes when people want messages written on them. They are empty canvasses, pre-decorated with beautiful pink and purple icing flowers, confetti sprinkles, rainbows, and butterflies.
The other day, a man walked in and told me he wanted a birthday cake for his friend “William”. As is [...]

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Tomorrow morning I am getting paid to wear a bunny rabbit costume and play hide-n-seek with strangers in Georgetown as part of a massive scavenger hunt. Also, I am getting paid to subpoena a woman at her office tomorrow morning. Do you see where this is going?
I had some difficulty entering the woman’s office building [...]

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