The Tenth Annual Mindless Diversions Unsolicited Shopping Guide

Jaybird

Jaybird is Birdmojo on Xbox Live and Jaybirdmojo on Playstation's network. He's been playing consoles since the Atari 2600 and it was Zork that taught him how to touch-type. If you've got a song for Wednesday, a commercial for Saturday, a recommendation for Tuesday, an essay for Monday, or, heck, just a handful a questions, fire off an email to AskJaybird-at-gmail.com

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8 Responses

  1. Bryan O'Nolan says:

    I second World Central Kitchen and Innocence Project.Report

  2. Slade the Leveller says:

    For charity, I’d recommend your local food pantry. Ours has been inundated, and I bet yours has, too.Report

    • Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller says:

      not quite charity, but gift cards to your favorite local restaurant allow you to partake of socially distanced, curb delivered food while ensuring they have funds now to pay their staff and bills.Report

  3. Oscar Gordon says:

    Actually, the chainmail washcloth IS for cleaning. The metal is softer than the iron, so as long as you aren’t scrubbing with significant pressure, it won’t hurt the surface or seasoning, but it will knock the burned on crap loose.Report

    • Jaybird in reply to Oscar Gordon says:

      The joke I was going for was the distinction between washing and cleaning for cast iron pans.

      You can *CLEAN* a cast iron pan. From time to time.

      NEVER wash one.Report

      • Oscar Gordon in reply to Jaybird says:

        Ah, when you said “get the rust off”, I thought you had the wrong idea. It gets the ‘crust’ off.Report

      • Philip H in reply to Jaybird says:

        yep. When my wife and I were moving out of our apartment into our first house the landlords came over to “helpfully” clean. The husband turned on the self clean function of the oven, not realizing my well seasoned cast iron was inside. That stuff came out factory new, and I’ve been re-seasoning since.

        No washing involved, but boy was it CLEAN!Report

  4. Jaybird says:

    If you are looking for music to share with your loved ones (or to tell your loved ones to get you), my advice is always something like “Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick never gets old!” but that advice might not be appropriate for everybody.

    As such, here is Chris’s twitter thread with all of the music he enjoyed this year. Read the whole thing. He touches on pretty much every genre you’d be tempted by.

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