In America we have a very specific protection of freedom of speech. In recent times the youngest voices among adults have cried out to silence some people and that really could take us in a bad direction. If someone is racist, un-informed, just plain mean, or trolling they still have every right to say whatever […]
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My Working Definition of God
A discussion started with a friend of mine recently in relation to the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham on the idea of creationism vs evolution. I’ve held my own thoughts for a long time on what we might call God but until this discussion I hadn’t tried to articulate it all fully. In […]
The Poor, Insurance, and Money
Being poor does not mean that you waste your excess income, it means you don’t have income. Being poor is the lack of having any money to spend. I think the work done recently in the United States on the Affordable Care Act is very good and while anything that big is going to have […]
Being an Adult
The great thing about being an adult is that you can do whatever you want all of the time. You can do it when you’re a kid too but it took me twenty something years to figure that out. – Jonathan McCarver
Occupy Greyskull
This is my contribution to the world today.
If You’re in IT Learn to Use a Mac
I am a computer programmer by trade and a long time computer user. I’ve had a Macintosh Performa 405, a Compaq Presario, a poorly build hand made computer, a Macbook Pro, a Dell Vostro 1000 laptop, a better built custom computer, a toshiba touchscreen tablet pc, 2 kinds of iphone and a sony vaio that […]
My Problem with Unbreakable
I just had one problem with the movie unbreakable.
Been a While
It’s been a while since I wrote anything. The last post on programming languages was a bit difficult and the break was nice. I’m always open to topics people are interested in learning about and you can submit them via comments here. I have been more active lately exercising and doing parkour. In fact my […]
A Brave New Website
This is it, the new jonathanmccarver.com. It’s not fancy (yet), I don’t really plan on making a pretty looking site because that’s not what I do. I make things work but in this instance I am trying to spread some of the knowledge that is natural to me. I’m making a technology blog as the […]
List of Memphis Statues
This is a work in progress. Once it’s done I’ll add it to wikipedia. Please add any you know of by commenting. 4 elvis statues downtown Nathan Bedford Forrest Buddha Religious statue of liberty Ramses W.C. Handy E. H. “Boss” Crump greek statues at the courthouse facing adams Tom Lee (in tom lee park) Soldier […]