Driving a bus is not the same without a duck.
So my favorite thing about this time of year is Desert Bus for Hope, a charity event for Child's Play. Basically, a group of Canadians from a sketch comedy group (Loading Ready Run) and some of their associates play Desert Bus every year. It's a mini-game from the Penn and Teller game for Sega from Back In The Day, and the most boring game of all time. Basically, you are driving a bus down a desert road from Tuscon to Vegas. In real time. With a steering wheel that veers slightly to the left. If you crash off the road, you get towed back. Also in real time. If you make it to Vegas, you get a point, and turn around to head back to Tuscon.
It is glorious.
They play it nonstop while people donate money, and the more money donate, the longer they play. This is year 4, and already up to $29,000+ after 25 hours played. They're committed to at least 112 straight hours of Desert Bus at this point.
They also have crazy live auctions for awesome items, prizes, twitter contests, they do challenges for money like singing and various forms of humiliation.
So I spend a week in November watching Canadians and paying for them to do my bidding. I love it so much, that I get NOTHING DONE FOR DAYS. I hoped I'd get some NaNo and Big Bang written during this but this far? Failing. FAILING.
And now Morgan is driving the bus for the next 24 hours so I am sooo stuck in chat.
Zoe Washburne from Firefly
OMG Zoe. Zoe's just all sorts of awesome -- she's got an incredible history and is another character with too much personal canon in my brain. She's gone from military career to awesome thief, she's got the kind of dry sense of humor that makes me cackle, and she's this composed and strong woman that is just an absolute FORCE OF NATURE on the crew. I love her loyalty, I love her dependability, I love her awesomeness with a gun.
Mal: Ship like this will be with you 'til the day you die.
Zoë: That's 'cause it's a death trap.
Mal: Well look at this. Seems we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoë: Big damn heroes, sir.
Upcoming Days
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show - Helga
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie - Kat Stratford or Elizabeth Swann
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character - Granny Weatherwax
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc - Cordelia Chase
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character - Roseanne
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character - Xena or B’Elanna?
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character - Ellen Fanshaw
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character - Jadzia Dax
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist -- Maleficent
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon - Wade Wells
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship - B’Elanna and Janeway
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship - Willow/Tara
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship - Gilmores
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like) - Morgan La Fey, Ophelia
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for - Marguerite(?)
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.) - Felicia Day
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec - letters to my sisters
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
It is glorious.
They play it nonstop while people donate money, and the more money donate, the longer they play. This is year 4, and already up to $29,000+ after 25 hours played. They're committed to at least 112 straight hours of Desert Bus at this point.
They also have crazy live auctions for awesome items, prizes, twitter contests, they do challenges for money like singing and various forms of humiliation.
So I spend a week in November watching Canadians and paying for them to do my bidding. I love it so much, that I get NOTHING DONE FOR DAYS. I hoped I'd get some NaNo and Big Bang written during this but this far? Failing. FAILING.
And now Morgan is driving the bus for the next 24 hours so I am sooo stuck in chat.
Zoe Washburne from Firefly
OMG Zoe. Zoe's just all sorts of awesome -- she's got an incredible history and is another character with too much personal canon in my brain. She's gone from military career to awesome thief, she's got the kind of dry sense of humor that makes me cackle, and she's this composed and strong woman that is just an absolute FORCE OF NATURE on the crew. I love her loyalty, I love her dependability, I love her awesomeness with a gun.
Mal: Ship like this will be with you 'til the day you die.
Zoë: That's 'cause it's a death trap.
Mal: Well look at this. Seems we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoë: Big damn heroes, sir.
Upcoming Days
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show - Helga
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie - Kat Stratford or Elizabeth Swann
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character - Granny Weatherwax
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc - Cordelia Chase
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character - Roseanne
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character - Xena or B’Elanna?
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character - Ellen Fanshaw
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character - Jadzia Dax
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist -- Maleficent
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon - Wade Wells
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship - B’Elanna and Janeway
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship - Willow/Tara
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship - Gilmores
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like) - Morgan La Fey, Ophelia
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for - Marguerite(?)
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.) - Felicia Day
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec - letters to my sisters
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!