About This Site / Contact Me
Hi, I’m Joshua McGee. This is my site.
Who are you?
Me? I’m a nerd. I studied mathematics. I’ve written software professionally since 1998, which I am doing freelance right now while trying to make my way as a writer. The “Portrait of J. Random Hacker” is uncomfortably spot-on. You have caught me reevaluating a lot of things — employment, infrastructure, foreign relations, the responsibilities of a citizen, what “patriotism” really means, what charity means, and numerous other things I’d love to talk with you about. In the time I don’t spend evaluating claims from first principles, I collect stamps; write; read, watch films, and listen to music and public radio; play the guitar (not enough); and, especially, spend time with my wonderful son Niall.
So what do you do here, and why should I care?
I maintain an active blog, and lots of static pages and other websites. Use the sidebar to the right as a guide. If it’s not your scene, thank you for taking the time to look.
What would someone else say about you?
The Myers-Briggs (Jungian) personality type descriptor for me is spot-on, even though I am loath to support a profiling system with 16 bins. I am of the 3%-of-the-population INTP (Introverted/iNtuitive/Thinking/Perceiving) type, as follows (emphasis mine):
INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them … Precise about their descriptions, INTPs will often correct others (or be sorely tempted to) if the shade of meaning is a bit off. While annoying to the less concise, this fine discrimination ability gives INTPs so inclined a natural advantage as, for example, grammarians and linguists … easy-going and amenable to almost anything until their principles are violated[, then there is hell to pay] … A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves … An INTP arguing a point may very well be trying to convince himself as much as his opposition….
Mathematics is a system where many INTPs love to play, similarly languages, computer systems — potentially any complex system. INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP’s conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge is secondary…..
Knowing the Truth is enough for INTPs; the knowledge that this truth can (or could) be demonstrated is sufficient to satisfy the knower … Feeling tends to be all or none. When present, the INTP’s concern for others is intense, albeit naive.
Famous INTPs: Socrates, Decartes, Pascal, Newton, Einstein.
Pretty much, that blockquote is me.
TL;DR, dude. In your own words and a few sentences, what should be my simple mental image of you?
Well, there are fully four photos in the upper right, if you’re into that whole “photography” thing. The preceding section reduces to “a withdrawn jerk who is likely to argue with you.” I am atheist, primarily hetero, and single. I am a Green Party voter who moved right for Obama. I have a little boy named Niall, whom I love more than I love myself. Take a look at the “Sleeve” section of the sidebar for some causes I support — those can usually give a good idea of what someone stands for.
Nine years of posts is not enough. Where else can I learn about you?
The “Presence” icons (in the sidebar) tell you how to find me all over the web — previously only brave spooky Internet ninjas could figure all that out.
Contact:
Email: joshua@mcgees.org
Voice: +1 802 365 1772
Fax: +1 206 600 6354
Skype: mcgees.org
Google Chat: joshuamcgee
By post:
PO Box 119
Hardwick, Vermont
05843-0119
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