Don’t forget about our sweet silent auctions that end at 10am PST!

First up is a rug based on the MtG card Bump in the Night, an amazing LRR meme made into an even more amazing home decor! This is currently at $450 but you’ve still got time to get in!

Next we have an Acting Ensign traveling hat! Perfect for the teenage genius in your life (as long as they’re ok with people never spelling their name right). This is at $300! A steal for a beautiful piece like this! Go get it for yourself!

And last we have this HUGE and amazing Hylian Shield quilt! It’s the perfect protection from the cold, handmade and made in the traditional method, including being made on a sewing machine from 1863! Nothing like a timeless piece of art for the home. This is at over $1000 and worth every cent!

We’re almost to the end of Cam’s shift, so give a look at our next Donation Drive! We’ve got these beautiful handcrafted wood pens.

Donate $7.94 or multiples thereof before 8:05am PST to get a chance at these!

We’re delighted to welcome Lone Shark Games as a sponsor for Desert Bus for Hope 2018!

Lone Shark Games is a tabletop games and puzzle company founded by Mike Selinker and James Ernest. Based out of Seattle, the company is known for creating games such as Thornwatch and Apocrypha, puzzle-making guide Puzzlecraft, and the 2010 alternate reality Repo Man interactive puzzle, created in conjunction with Universal Pictures and Wired Magazine.

Thank you, Lone Shark Games, for all your contributions and support to Desert Bus for Hope 2018!

Welcome to Zeta!

Our fair Lunar Module was visited by Carl Sagan, and he serenaded us with a song by The Postal Service!

Like last year, we will have to take our stream down nightly. Tonight, we applied a patch and got a new skin.

We learned that our Zeta team is, in fact, drift-compatible

And the shift ended with a visit from Dale!!

Who knows what we may get up to tomorrow? Stick around to see!!

Whether you play a teifling, a dwarf, or an elf, you’ll love this huge D&D lot donated to us by NESJumpman! In just one donation drive you will get ALL of the following:

– 2 hard cover DnD books.
– hard cover novel.
– 4 comic books
– mechanical pencil
– 5 sticker pages
– plastic figure (blind box)
– deck protector sleeves
– dnd graph paper
– water bottle

If you want to get your hands on a prize that would thrill any dice roller, donate $6.18 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 5:34am PST.

For this donation drive, you’ll definitely want to catch ’em all! We have the Pokemon Evolution Carved Leather Notebook Cover Set created by our amazing crafter, Sam McKoy (aka korvys). With this set of 3 leather notebook covers, you can keep the record of your adventures through the world safe in style, and for years to come (just remember to apply oil or other leather conditioning products occasionally).
Each cover will fit a standard pocket sized Moleskine hardcover notebook (included), which can be replaced as needed.

The covers feature hand-tooled designs of the Generation 1 starter Pokèmon and their evolutions, are dyed to match, and have a snap fastened strap to hold them closed in your bag.

These covers are made from vegetable tanned cowhide leather, and stitched with waxed nylon thread.

Donate $8.02 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 4:15am PST.

You are running out of time on our current silent auctions! There is about half an hour left on two excellent craft-along prizes!

First up, we have the Desert Bus for Hope Champions Belt. Do you want to earn the Driverweight Championship Belt worn by the 2017 Autumnal Rumble champions? Hand-knitted from machine-washable acrylic and polyester, this belt fits a 36-inch waist and will make a winning addition to your trophy case OR your plushie shelf!

Current high bid is $500.00

Second, there is the Mark1 Tiny Diving Helmet. The Mark1 Tiny Diving Helmet is manufactured as a limited run prototype specifically designed to fit the inter-dimensional being Pepe from World of Warcraft! It also features 6 lighting modes (selected using the pressure valve button) and a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. This will allow your orange friend to adventure deep within the briny depths where he can commune with the fish – the fish who know much.

Current high bid is $540.00

You are running out of time, so snipers take your shots!

Show your Desert Bus pride with these amazing walnut deck boxes. They are laser cut with the four shift banners, and can hold up to 100 sleeved cards, as well as having a drawer for dice or tokens! Don’t sleep on these guys, they are gorgeous!!

Donate $9.41 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 1:47am PST.

Photo by Kolin Toney.

After an afternoon of many surprise guests, we had one more surprise… Skeletor came by and visited us! It was an evening of surprises, discussions, and shenanigans… here’s some of what you missed…

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Mikey Neumann called in to the Lunar Module to answer some of your questions and give away some blu-ray movies from his personal collection.

Skeletor graced us with his presence with a moving rendition of Bulletproof.

For reaching $225K on Ashley and Graham’s shift, Emily led the room in a rendition of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Cameron tried to sneak in at the start of his shift, but the cosmos determined one does not simply appear in the driver’s chair. So, by happenstance, we tripped across the Full Song Random Dance Party!

We had an extended discussion about video game design.

And, finally, Cameron has challenged the community to come up with its best subtractive poetry! Check the blog for full details on this challenge, which will run up until the end of Cameron’s shift at 10:00am PST.

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Cameron has come up with a clever Creative Challenge for his shift, a combination of prose and art!

We’ve challenged the community to come up with some subtractive poetry. If you haven’t seen this before, it can be kind of like using word magnets to create something, except you’ll create it by picking out words from an existing work, sometimes with some artwork to connect the words together. And, for this challenge, you’ll need to make your creations from a page of Claude E. Shannon’s A Mathematical Theory of Communication, the founding work of information theory. Here’s a PDF copy of the original work hosted by the Harvard Mathematics Department.

You can send in an image or written text. If you’re creating an image, send your final creation as a PNG or JPG. For text entries, you can include your content in the email itself or attach as a TXT file. In either case, send your creations to contests@desertbus.org with the subject line “Thematic Communion“. Also please let us know what name we should use for you should we show your submission on-air. The winner of this challenge will win a Desert Bus 2018 t-shirt!

We’ll accept submissions until 10:00am PST.

Illustration from Wikipedia