Reviews and Opinions Reviews of things people buy and use - opinions by Jason Buchanan

I liken this content as a way to pass along what I consider to be common sense. The world has changed a great deal in the past 20 years but web page content is still open for anyone to publish and this is my on-going foray (albeit probably the fifth iteration) into that space.

I vividly remember the gold rush of "personal web pages" in the mid-90s, where the trendsetters created HTML and uploaded it to their ISP's personal web page server. Back in the day, this is how it was done long before Google+ or Facebook or Wordpress were contemplated on whiteboards. Unfortunately, the world has trundled into the direction of letting social media dictate the appearance and style of whatever someone wants to say. My way is black text on a solid white background, no cascading style sheets or rendered content. All of it edited with time and care, by hand, using vi. With that out of the way, onto the stuff I actually wanted to share.

Presented in no particular order:

Cooking

• Carbon steel pans, and cooking with de Buyer pans - Carbone Acier and Mineral B, and why you need more than one
• Peppercorns and pepper - black and white peppercorns, and Moroccan coriander seeds in your pepper grinder make an outstanding seasoning (but not a flavoring) recipe, courtesy August Escoffier

Technology

• Geiger counters: Seattle online geiger counter - real-time updates for radioactivity and cosmic rays in the Pacific Northwest
• Ads: You've got ads! - why do I put ads on my pages?
• Ham Radio: i'm a big supporter of amateur radio - my callsign is N1SU

Clothing, Fabrics, etc.

• Smartwool socks by Smartwool - the best i've ever owned