Author: Jason D. Rowley
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In Defense of Darkness
My post “JDR Makes A Film” received the comment below: – – – This was disappointing. A worthless, somber look at a day that brought many neighborhoods together and gave joy to countless curiously eager and vigorous young people. You missed a great portion of the people’s positive spirits during today’s citywide snow day. Sorry,…
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JDR Makes a Film – Storm’s Wake
The University of Chicago cancelled classes today and tomorrow due to inclement weather. Naturally, I decided to take a hike around Hyde Park and the campus, as well as wander out to Promontory Point. With me I brought my iPhone, on which I recorded some video using the 8mm application. It’s responsible for the nice…
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Photos – Snow at UChicago, From Classier Times
Yes, yes. I know. “Class is a social construction.” Pipe down already. Enjoy the snow.
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The White City
And God said unto the city, “Thou hast sullied thine image with politicks, moneygetting, and crime. Thou shalt be mundified, swaddled in white. It shall be cold and wet. I beseech you, Windy City, to don thy coat, lest suffer further. Shiver today as penance.”
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The Echo Chamber
Inside the echo chamber. Shouting match with the walls. Friends, a blithe coterie singing merrily inward. To and from each other. To no other but themselves. Go forth they say: Collaborate. Create. Succeed. Make Possible. Live Expansively. Fund and Incorporate. Drive and Innovate. Rise above. Embrace uncertainty. Seize. Attack ferociously. Make it bleed. Sustain. Run…
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IncubatorU
Now, I’m sure hordes of grumpy old men in tweed jackets collectively carp about the increasing focus on commerce in the classroom, about the decay of classic liberal arts dogma about Truth and Beauty, and all that jazz. What I say to that: grow up. Fact: for as long as a college degree is a…
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The Basic Structure of In-class Discussion
In brackets I use an example topic. My de facto filler topic, in all such instances where an example topic is required, is the problem of Nicaraguan youth afflicted with ringworm due to dearth of solid footwear. Also, “Blackburn” and “Goldfeldt” are two filler names in lieu of the “scholars” whose pieces we were supposed…
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Another Excerpt from ‘Didact’
Below is another excerpt from a (somewhat protracted) short story I’m working on. Current word-count is 3000 words, of which you’ll find almost 600 below. It’s unclear how it’ll be incorporated, but it will. The lines are spoken, the words are the protagonist’s, not the narrator’s, which is not me. For the record. Now, I…
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Young, Student Entrepreneur, Discusses Getting Started
This is an excerpt from my latest piece for Flyover Geeks profiling friend and student entrepreneur Colin Young. Read the whole thing here. Of his experience at DePaul University, where he is studying computer science, Colin demurred to my (leading) questions about college. Colin, like most young people in tech, is primarily autodidactic. Young claimed…
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That Kind of Writing to Which I Aspire
For a class, I am tasked with writing a 20-25 page paper about an intellectual. My choice is one of my all-time favorite authors, one whose prose has influenced my own cognitive processing more than I’d ever like to admit.