WE HIT THAT IN DONATIONS THIS YEAR. YOU GUYS!
Whale dong, you guys. Whale dong. <3
After a fantastic set of submissions, we’re pleased to announce that the winner of Kathleen’s ‘Draw Pel’ Contest is RoseNightshade!! They will receive this sweet D&D pack for their trouble. Congratulations to all who made the shortlist, because Kathleen was truly impressed–and she is a lady of very high-quality taste.
The rest of the finalists are below the cut!
Legendary electronics guru Grant Imahara will be calling in to this year’s Desert Bus! Tune in at 9pm PST on Monday, November 18, 2013.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Grant got his start at Lucasfilm’s THX division and soon moved on to Industrial Light and Magic, where he would work on an exhaustive list of blockbuster movies such as the Star Wars prequels, Galaxy Quest, AI, Terminator 3, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and more.
Grant may be best known for his work on the Mythbusters Build Team, where he has been responsible for some the most jaw dropping computer and electronic myth debunks on the program. During his career Grant has operated R2D2, redesigned the current generation of Energizer Bunnies, built and designed Geoff Peterson, the gay robot skeleton sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Fergusson, and has worn the C3PO suit to numerous events, including once on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Imahara has also made appearances on Geek and Sundry’s TableTop, Junkyard Mega-Wars, and is currently portraying Mr. Sulu in the web series Star Trek Continues. He also pretty active on Twitter.
We here at Desert Bus are incredibly happy to have Mr. Imahara calling in to offer his support! If you have questions for Grant Imahara, please put them in the comments below.
If you are spending any time on our chat (and you should be! Go! Now!) then you have no doubt seen some of the gifs you amazing people have made.
Capturing some of the best moments in DB007 we have snatched these from chat as we can but a huge thank you has to go out to “Leonard Nimoy’s Head” for e-mailing us at stuff@desertbus.org a giant collection.
For your viewing pleasure may I present Your Gifs of the day!
Yeah… These are the things we do for you. If we have featured a gif of yours please claim it in the comments! Also, if you capture a particularly embarrassing moment please feel free to email it to us (stuff@desertbus.org) so we can re-live it over and over and over and over…
For the Children!
Good Evening!
We thought that it was about time that we remind all of you about the amazing auctions that are closing in the not so distant future.
Auctions closing within the next hour:
Ladies’ Super Mario Brothers Scarf
Custom Animal Crossing Paper Cut art
Check out even more great auctions after the break 
You have just under 5 hours for these great items, so get bidding!
The Age of the Vampires – Legacy of Kain: Defiance art
Jak & Daxter 10th anniversary Precurser Orb statue
It’s been an exciting day, and there’s still lots more to come this evening.
Alexandra Craven was the winner in our two-headed packing tape hero art contest and won a copy of Plants vs. Zombies Risk.
Brent Stewart’s fantastic Targaryen House banner was auctioned off. Badgersprite won with a bid of $1,356.27!
We gave away a Magic: The Gathering From the Vault: Dragons foil card set.
Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse dropped by via Skype to read an excerpt from his new NaNoWriMo effort, and helped us auction off a manuscript copy as well as the right to choose the protagonist’s name!
At some point we hit “sequential money,” for lack of a better term. If you’re confused, look at the image below and I think the meaning will become clear.
We got a sneak peek at the official Desert Bus for Hope 7 poster, by Supernormal Step creator Michael Lunsford.
And the team members of the fairer sex took over the studio for a special Womens’ Hour (it was more like an hour and a half due to popular demand).
Desert Bus for Hope is excited to welcome Bobak Ferdowsi, Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He will be calling in today, Monday, November 18 at 5pm PST.
Bobak Ferdowsi was born in Philadelphia and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he was eleven he moved to Tokyo with his parents and attended the American School in Japan. After his graduation in 1997 he attended the University of Washington where he majored in his childhood dream of aerospace engineering.
In 2001 Bobak enrolled at MIT and later joined the Lean Aerospace Initiative. In late 2003, Bobak joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and began work on the Mars Science Laboratory and Cassini-Huygens missions, the latter of which he acted as Science Planner.
Despite his impressive body of work it was his hairstyle that won him mainstream attention. During the landing of the Curiosity on Mars Bobak was seated prominently in frame and the media took notice of his unique Mohawk haircut. Bobak soon became a symbol of the landing. His hair even received a nod from President Barack Obama, who said, “”it does seem NASA has come a long way from the white shirts, dark-rimmed glasses, and pocket protectors. You guys are a little cooler than you used to be.” Bobak has used his newfound meme status to aid campaign for a greater number of visas for skilled immigrants in the fields of math, science, and engineering.
If you have questions for Bobak, please put them in the comments below.
The ladies of Desert Bus have taken over the studio. Absolutely no boys allowed!
What might they get up to? Have a look at the gallery below for some of their hi-jinks so far.
Now’s the time to get in the chat and ask our lovely ladies any questions you’ve ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask, or just hop on the video feed to see what they have to say.
For the curious, the menfolk have retreated upstairs where they are chewing the fat and stuffing themselves at the buffet table.
Here’s a scoop for the afternoon crew: a preview of the in-progress official Desert Bus 7 poster! Michael Lunsford of Supernormal Step, as in years past, provides the incredible art.
Feast your eyes, and see how many people and moments of this years’ busing you recognize!