If you have a second, feel free to click on over to my DH's blog. The traffic is way down this year--and no traffic means no pay for Mr. Scrappy. If a bunch of, say, Buffistas could visit the site every day, why who know what wonderful things could happen! Feel free to send anyone you know who is thinking of buying a news or used car that way as well. [link]

Guess what time it is?? That's right, time to consider throwing in some money to support this here site. As you know, it costs money to maintain the site, but we don't charge anyone to use it. So that's why we ask you to give.

This is the kind of thing you'll hear during pledge drives if you listen to public radio, but it applies equally here: Think about the value you get from this site, and what that's worth to you. Are you on here all day, or do you just pop in when you need a break? Have you made friends, gotten comfort, been entertained? What is that worth to you? Sorry I don't have any totebags to send you, but still.

You can donate via paypal at donations at buffistas dot org, or email the same address if you want my mailing address to send a check.

THANKS.

SF-istas! Tom Lenk is coming to the Dark Room to perform a one-man show on November 13. Sadly, I will be out of town, but those who won't be may be interested.

LESS THAN 2 WEEKS LEFT. SIGN UP NOW! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

It's the time of year again for the Secret Buffista Gift Exchange! Ok, it's actually about a month earlier. In the hopes of having more time for people (to send multiple things or messages or taunts) and having fewer late gifts, I am starting early.

Anyone interested in exchanging small presents with other Buffistas during the holiday/year-end/solstice/non-religion or culture specific season, Follow this link to join elfster and set up a profile with your preferred email/snail mail and important info: [link]

I am hoping this site will work for us, but if we start to have problems, I will do the matching manually.

Please register at elfster by 10/30. I'll have the site match names and send out notices 11/1. If there are any issues or questions, profile address is good as is IM or FB IM (if I'm on) rlboston 14 without the space.

And if you want to update your secret database entry of awesomeness with me, please send me information about you! I've had a couple of computer crashes since the creation of the buffista secret gift-giving database of interesting information, so it would be super-helpful if you sent it in again. Skip any question you don't want to answer. Just copy the below into an email and send it to deena AT dlmfisher DOT com. And if you need information about someone, let me know and I'll do my best to provide it.

Buffista name:
real name :
birthday:
anniversary and type: (first picked up a sword, college graduation, marriage, moving in together, coming out, conversion to X):
mailing address:
LJ, Dreamwidth, Blog, etc. name/URL:
AIM or other messenger name/contact info:
telephone number if you want it included:
wish list URL:
Name of spouse, partner, roomie, significant other if you want to share it:
Child(ren)'s name(s) and age(s):
Pet name(s) and type:
Top ten under 10 pick-me-ups (postcards, keychains, little things):
favorite type of chocolate:(white, dark, milk, don't bother if it's USian, with nuts, caramel, etc.):
favorite scent(s) or scent family: (lavender, citrus, floral, rose):
favorite fruit:
favorite color:
bath or shower:
passion: (swords, music, vinyl, leather, corsets, krav, wonder woman, children's books published before 1900, or...?):
favorite metal: (silver, gold, copper, black hills gold):
favorite comic book/cartoon/whatever character:
Favorite animal:
totem animal(s):
favorite stone: (diamond, amethyst, polished river rock):
holiday system and favorite holiday (USian, UK, Canadian, Australian, Indian, Jewish, Christian, Pagan, Wiccan, Viking):
favorite lush product:
favorite website (after buffistas.org):
allergies, migraine triggers, other things to avoid:
favorite alcoholic beverage:
tea or coffee and favorite flavor/kind:
piercings:
favorite flower or plant:
Something every Buffista should know about me:
you can/can't share this with any buffista who asks (yeah, sure, only if you ask me first, only for purposes of gift-getting):

if you missed the story about t he film take a few days by the 1906 earthquake the clip is here

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If you are interested, here are the articles about the DH's and my recent motorcycle trip around California. It's in backwards order, so you'll have to scroll down to day one. He writes some purty words, I must say. [link]

San Francisco's Mythbusters will have a REALLY special guest on December 8: [link]

"I can announce today that I taped a special guest appearance for their show, although I didn't get to blow anything up," Obama said at a White House science fair event. "I was a little frustrated with that."

Hear Ye Hear Ye

Voting is now open for the following proposal:

Should we establish the F2F location pimpage and selection schedule as described by Pix.

The full proposal and discussion starts here.

Voting closes Friday (October 22, 2010) at 9AM (PDT).

VOTE NOW

(questions should be posted in Bureaucracy)

Voting is now closed. What happens with the results is being discussed starting roughly here