Author: Jason D. Rowley
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On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker’s Manifesto
Below is an excerpt of an essay I wrote for Flyover Geeks. Read the whole thing here. As the (very) unofficial higher-education reporter for Flyover Geeks, I’ve said a lot about college, what’s wrong with it, some of its good bits, and how it needs to change. The first piece I published here was about…
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Shelf Space {Flash Fiction}
This story is missing something, just one paragraph. Something to put after “I showed you.” While I’m waiting for that paragraph to hit me, I’ll just let the piece camp out here. – – – Do you remember when we first met? When you were lost in a city strange to you, where I helped…
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A New ‘Days’ Dawns
Welcome to the new, and surprisingly unchanged, Halcyon Days. In the past week, I’ve successfully migrated over from WordPress.com to self-hosting. (This gives me considerably more freedom to customize readers’ experience.) Additionally, I’ve programmed a little Facebook application which automatically updates my (not your) activity feed with new posts. Finally, I’ve done a little bit…
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Pardon our Dust: The Halcyon Days is Currently Under Construction
All, I am dreadfully sorry for the delays in the WordPress.org install, but my hosting provider has been slow in putting my changes to the back-end routing configuration into effect. (For the technical: Supposedly, DNS changes are to be processed within 24 hours. It took GoDaddy almost 40.) JasonDRowley.com should be up and running relatively…
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The Halcyon Days Will Experience Some Technical Issues
Dear All, I’m migrating The Halcyon Days over to a self-hosted implementation through WordPress.org. Interruption in service to jasondrowley.com is expected, but should not last more than the next 24-48 hours, depending on my attention span. In the meantime, The Halcyon Days will be available at jasondrowley.wordpress.com. My primary motivation for switching to self-hosting is…
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The Myth of Market Bubbles, or “On Crashing Waves”
The term “market bubble” is a misnomer. What begins as a teeny sliver of a trend, spawned of some prediction or cause unknown, moves forward. They propagate, and just like a nascent tsunami, small reverberations go unnoticed.
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The Sociology of Mens Locker Rooms, a Satire
The three social traits analyzed here are: degree of nakedness, amount and subject matter of conversation, and relative degree of homophobia, which is correlated- but not mutually inclusive with degree of nakedness.
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Not Another Chernobyl
The still-developing situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after last week’s devastating earthquake is not, I repeat, is not another Chernobyl, despite what headline writers and news anchors would like to claim. I assert that, while this crisis hasn’t killed as many people, or leaked as much radiation or fissile material as the 1986…
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College Tuition: LOL! WTF?
Today, as I was looking at my Twitter feed, a message seized my attention. #UChicago University announces increases in education cost and financial aid for 2011-12 http://bit.ly/eVmpcY — UChicago News (@UChicagoNews) March 21, 2011 Apparently, according to the article, “The total cost of undergraduate education for the 2011-12 school year will be $55,416; of that…