Author: Jason D. Rowley
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So I’ve Got This Really Big Idea
I have an idea for a web-based application (with the eventual release of an iPad app as well) which acts as a platform for collaborative note-taking. I’ve already figured out the user interface (though I’m always looking for advice), and most of the front-end functionality and basic frameworks.
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An Excerpt from My Upcoming Kindle Release
Here’s an excerpt from a longish (~2500-3000 word) essay I’m writing for publication as a Kindle Book. It frames current belief in the college degree vis-a-vis traditional monotheistic religions’ value systems, and critiques it thusly. Do enjoy: Other doctrines with similar promises of deliverance (from evil, which is defined by each organization) have since emerged…
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Carpe Diem
And how you must think we are monsters, Pawing and grabbing and drooling and Chasing you back to your home and Your cute room-mates. Defending you from us, The barbarians at the gate. I am sorry, so sorry you are so pretty. So blithe and lithe and shameless. Vulnerable and hopeful. Calcium white. I…
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Note from a Halcyon Day – 2/20/11
Looking over the precipice, into the depths of others’ potential–theirs, mine too–I see a reflection of the man I am, not the one I should be. David and I killed the latter over pancakes. He’ll go unmourned.
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A Random Thought About The Coming Spring
I rarely eat lunch alone, but when I do I write in my journal. An excerpt: 2/17/2011 12:15 p.m. I really love these grey wet spring days. Especially before all the leaves and flowers come out: vernal sweetness with the bleak stark verity of winter–the world’s denuded skeletons stand still proudly, their limbs and digits…
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Regarding Support for UChicago Student Entrepreneurs
The University of Chicago likes to give undergraduate- and graduate students the illusion that they have a say in how the organization is run, so they grant us audience with members of the board of trustees every once in a while. Next week, I will attend a luncheon with Paul Yovovich, president, co-founder and principal…