Michael Davis will be calling into Desert Bus at 8pm PST Saturday, November 15th.

He is a software developer for the Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) at the University of Alabama. They develop software for various federal, state, and local government agencies related to aspects of public safety, such as law enforcement, transportation safety, health care, and social services.

One major project he has been developing is eCrash, an electronic traffic crash reporting system for the state of Alabama. If you end up in a car crash within Alabama, chances are the crash report is passing through software he wrote. Currently he is working on developing an equivalent system for the state of Arkansas.

He enjoys reading and playing video games (particularly JRPGs), though he’s been spending a lot of time on Destiny lately. His username in most places (including DB chat) is Nereidum, a name he picked because of his love for the Zone of Enders series. He’s been watching since DB3, possibly DB2, though the lines of reality have blurred too far together to be certain anymore.

For DB8 he made The Device.

Have a question for Michael? Leave them in the comments below!

Just a quick reminder to everyone that we have some very cool silent auctions going on right now!

First up, let me introduce this gorgeous artisanal stained glass art piece!

Looking for that perfect item to add a touch of style to your study, den, library, living room, or anywhere else? This Magic: the Gathering colour wheel is a delicious pie of spell-casting fuel.

Hang it in your window and let its colourful light shine down upon your Magic games and dazzle your opponents! And hey, with the holidays coming up, this unique piece also makes a perfect gift for that someone who’s hard to shop for!

For the next ten minutes this incredible piece is up for grabs at a bargain price so make sure to get your bid in!! A similar item went for $4000 last year, and this one is available for just $1000 right now! Nowhere else will you find an item like this at this price again, so act now!

Remember, the auction ends in just ten minutes!!

As well, don’t forget about the Chibiterasu Needlepoint, the Supernatural 200th Episode Commemorative Pins, and the Star Wars Lace Shawl!!

All hail

King Matt I

Long may he reign!

Matt was the winner of our inaugural Bus King contest! Thanks to everyone for voting!

For the curious, the final standings were:

7. Johnny

6. James

5. Jer

4. Andrew

3. Graham

2. Serge

1. Matt

Hello again everyone! We at Desert Bus for Hope 8 cordially invite you to a royal affair… The inaugural coronation of the Bus King!

RIGHT NOW the Desert Bus beefcakes are strutting their stuff and vying for the crown, so tune in, and donate to vote for your favorite! The contest will involve a runway walk, a short answer, a talent portion, and more!

A previous Bus King

Our King will be chosen by most donations! Vote in multiples of the amounts below:

Hello

If you missed their sexy walks, look under the cut!

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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to Day 2 of Desert Bus For Hope 8, here is what you might have missed in all the excitement!

We had a great morning giveaway with the Ogre Prize Pack donated to us by Dracogen! The 13.37 donation drive raised a grand total of $3609.90 with Miracleknight standing triumphant!

We had….some issues however despite raising so much money. Beej decided that his shift was going to be the crashiest ever, and proceeded to go absolutely mad with power. No bus driver was safe!

Up next we rolled the Die for the first time on Jer’s shift and did a donation drive for the GIANT wooden D20. An amount of $7.09 was decided by rolls and raised $2850.18! The natural 20 was rolled by Ailurus as they took home the die!

We had Phil Plait call in and run the Bad Astronomer auction lot in which we had a deliciously flavourful SPACE bid from Omega_Lairon to take the lot for 2600

We had an INSANE donation drive with the Portal light boxes! The entries were $9.90 and raised $10,355.40 with Visible taking the boxes!!!!!!!! IT WAS CRAAAAZY!

We ran an art challenge for people to have themselves as the representative of their favourite of the Khans of Tarkir clans! The top three all won a shirt and playmat of the clan of their choice.

We had a beautiful bird up next on the auction block, our very own Desert Bus Chocobo! With the art submissions still rolling in we had a great auction with Lizardman winning the bird for $1300.00! WARK WARK

Our very own Desert Bus Chocobo has come and gone from the block with user Lizardman taking home the bird for $1300.00!!! Congratulations to the mighty bird tamer!

Our art contest has come to an end and we have three entries that stand above the rest in their allegiance to the clans! Congratulations to the mighty winners and salutations to all those who submitted!

The rest of the contest entries are below the break!

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Molly Lewis will be calling into Desert Bus at 5pm PST on Saturday, November 15th. 

Molly is an internet musician known for playing the ukulele, she also plays kazoo, accordion, stylophone, melodica, and piano. She is currently signed on with DFTBA records, where she released her first EP “I Made You A CD… But I Eated It“.

She earned “Ukulele Video of the Year” on Ukulele Hunt for 2007 for her cover of Jonathon Coulton’s “Tom Cruise Crazy” and won the third Masters of Song Fu competition in April 2009.

In 2011 she performed her song “An Open Letter to Stephen Fry” to Stephen Fry during an event where he accepted the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, given out by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard.

She is a regular performer at W00tstock, has participated in Jonathon Coulton’s January 2011 JoCo Cruise Crazy, and went on tour twice with The Doubleclicks.

The first tour was in fall of 2012 as part of the “Ladies of Ragnarok“, performing 19 concerts. The second tour was in January 2013 consisting of nine shows. Both tours were sponsorted by fans who could buy postcards or t-shirts that would go into covering the musicians travel costs.

She can be found on her own blog, twitter, and youtube.

Have a question for Molly? Leave them in the comments below!

Up next on the live auction block is our very own DESERT BUS CHOCOBO!!!!! (WARK) Submitted by Orin Drake, this isn’t your regular every day chocobo. It’s tail feathers, wings and legs are all POSABLE! This speedy delivery bird comes with it’s very own Desert Bus cap and sash!

Tune in at 2:30PM PST for your chance to bid on this rad DB Chocobo!

Alright everybody buckle up and get your art skills ready, we’ve got our first art challenge of Jer’s shift! Jer wants you to show your clan pride for his enjoyment.

What we’re looking for is some manner of image (photograph, drawing, photoshop etc.) of yourself dressed as a member of your favourite clan! Please e-mail your entries to [email protected] with the subject line of Clan. This challenge will run until 2:30 PM PST.

Please include your top three choices for your clan of Shirt and Playmat! That’s right, you will win both a shirt AND a playmat of your favourite.