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On Twitter in #Egypt
Here’s an excerpt of my latest post for Flyover Geeks: It has been called the “Twitter Revolution.” The recent unrest throughout the Middle East and Africa has resulted, so far, in two toppled regimes, a number of deaths, and a lot of attention on the role that social media plays in politics and political change.…
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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 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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The Upstart’s Conundrum: The Credibility Catch-22
All entrepreneurs face certain problems when they undertake new projects. All projects have considerable time costs, and often times the entrepreneur must establish credibility for him- or herself in fields where previously he or she had no expertise. How does one balance work and play given time constraints? How can entrepreneurs make others perceive them…
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Student Entrepreneur Hewett Talks Shop[pit]
Hewett tells a compelling story, a universally relatable one: shopping is heinously inefficient. “Customers wade through hundreds of items they aren’t interested in just to find the one item they want to buy. Shoppit changes all of this and does it better than anyone else in the market thanks to our proprietary RFID technology which…
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Halcyon Days Goes on Vacation
The Halcyon Days will be going on a brief hiatus while its principal contributor, Jason D. Rowley, (a.k.a me) finishes up a graduate school application (the three page “statement of intent” of which will be posted for HD‘s readers’ perusal) and visits Washington, D.C.. In the meantime, though, I highly recommend some of my friends’…