Welcome
Welcome to my digital conservatory. I'm Jason Michael Wester, a human bean, often taken for granite. This site serves as a repository for my essays, notes, and records. No algorithmic feeds, no tracking telemetry, and no bloat. What you'll find here is just plaintext thoughts organized by subject matter. Use the index on the right to browse my collections.
📢 What's New
The latest entries across all topics:
- Oct 17 — Cudy R700 Router Converted to Standard Release OpenWRT
- Sep 28 — Network Hardware Upgrades and Configuration Foibles
- Jun 11 — Olemaha
- May 25 — The Romance of It
- May 10 — A New CD Collection
- May 9 — Note About Shower Pressure
- Apr 20 — The Compact Disc
- Apr 14 — The Meat Grinder
- Mar 28 — Remembering Suzy McGrath
- Mar 25 — Exploring New Orleans
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📂 Articles Archives
Browse the library by subject matter:
📁 Culture (2)
📁 Food (31)
- Harrys of Manhattan, Kansas, Closed
- Tanners, Greenville, South Carolina, Closed
- Pizza Factory, Baldwyn, Mississippi
- Tomato Sandwich Time
- Tribecca Allie, Sardis, Mississippi — the best pizza I've ever eaten
- Some Excellent Sausages
- Approaches to Pizza
- Quick Recipe for Lasagna
- Ranking Iced Teas
- Pimento Cheese Part Six
- Pimento Cheese Part Five
- Pimento Cheese Part Four
- Pimento Cheese Part Three
- Pimento Cheese Part Two
- Pimento Cheese, Part One
- Dreamland Bar-B-Que, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Southern-Style Delis
- Drinking Buttermilk
- Smoakies Barbeque, Cordele, Georgia
- Fresh Air Barbeque, Jackson, Georgia
- Piggy Park, Thomaston, Georgia
- My Approach to Eating Barbeque
- Recipe: Country-Fried Steaks
- Bills Hamburgers - Amory, Mississippi
- Spaghetti Squash
- Phillips Grocery
- Sweet Vidalia
- The Best Mayonnaise
- Dukes Grill
- In-N-Out
- Ranking Store-Bought Hot Sauces — Tabasco is the best.
📁 Movies (13)
- Tarantino Films — Jackie Brown stands apart
- Movie Review: Asteroid City — I'm kinda over the whimsy
- Movie Review: Melancholia — The end of the world, and Kirsten Dunst's tits.
- Movie Review: Road House (1989))
- Pimento Cheese Part Seven, Final
- Movie Review: Watchmen (2007)
- Movie Review: AI, Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- My Favorites Horror Movies
- Movie Review: The Royal Tenenbaums
- Movie Review: Swingers (1996)
- Movie Review - Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Movie Review: It Follows (2014)
- Movie Review: The Escape Artist
📁 Personal (4)
📁 Rhetorics (2)
- The Death Nail
- Christian Revival — Revive Christianity by making it a distinct alternative to the default American hedonism.
📁 Sports (11)
- Olemaha
- College Football No More
- Rebels Defeat Bulldogs 39-34, Sugar Bowl Champions
- Mike Leach Dead
- Ole Miss National Champions!
- Rebels Defeat Pigs 2-0, Will Play for National Title
- Pigs Hold Off Rebels
- Rebels Butcher Pigs 7-3
- Rebels Down Tigers 5-1
- Rebels to Take On Auburn
- Ole Miss Baseball Omaha Bound
📁 Stoicism (24)
- The Romance of It
- Note About Shower Pressure
- The Meat Grinder
- Monkeying with Stoicism
- Meaning Where You Find It
- Working On Cars
- Reflections
- Three Ideas to Return To
- Hoffmans Reality
- Ligotti and Pessimism
- Reverse Engineering God
- God and Stuff
- Someone To Talk To
- The Saddest Day of my Life
- Watching What I Eat — how i drop weight
- Two Weeks of Taekwondo
- Backpacking As Voluntary Discomfort
- Being So Small
- People are Just Yapping Dogs — People are just talking apes. You shouldn't care all that much what they say.
- Dark Matters
- Eternalism and Observation
- Stoicism and Following Ole Miss Sports
- Understanding Brain
- You Will Die Tomorrow
📁 Tech (15)
- Cudy R700 Router Converted to Standard Release OpenWRT
- Network Hardware Upgrades and Configuration Foibles
- The Compact Disc
- Used Beets on Music Collection
- OpenWRT Upgrade Fail and Recovery
- Setting Up VSFTP on Arch Linux
- Quick Tech Fix, Network Manager, Linux
- Using Beets to Sort Out Music Collection
- Installing Encrypted Arch Linux
- Getting Wifi for Gentoo Install
- Steam Fix on Arch Linux
- Setting Up My Laserjet with Cups on Linux
- Finding Memory Information in Linux
- Thoughts About Linux
- Switching to Jekyll