from the Charisma-Carpenter website:

It's a boy!

Please welcome to the world Donavan Charles Hardy. Charisma gave birth to a healthy baby boy at 9:50 PM on March 24th at Cedar Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills. He weighed in at 8 pounds 10 ounces and has a marvelous head of hair. Both mother and baby are doing well.

Another excellent interview by Allyson can be found here:

Petrie Dish: An Interview with Doug Petrie

Attention Buffistas!

In honor of Charisma Carpenter and her new son, we would like to make a gift to Heifer International, an organization that "combats hunger, alleviates poverty, and restores the environment by providing appropriate livestock, training, and related services to small-scale farmers worldwide."

Heifer allows donors to select from a gift catalog of various types of farm animal. I thought it would be nice if we get one or more of the milk animals:

A goat, for $120
A water buffalo, for $250
A heifer, for $500, or
A milk menagerie (two goats, a buffalo, and a heifer), for $1000

If you would like to contribute, please send your donation to me, stonewilbanks@attbi.com, via PayPal no later than midnight board time on Saturday, April 5. If you prefer not to use PayPal, email me and I will give you my address for snail-mailing a check. I will then make the donation and make sure CC gets an honor card with the love and best wishes of the Buffistas.

x-posted to the Angel thread

THE VOTES ARE IN

MORATORIUM ON REOPENING DISCUSSIONS

After a proposal, discussion and vote, further discussion on a given matter should be closed for 6 months. If this initiative passes, we agree at 3 months from the day (date) the poll closes, to take a vote of confidence on this decision (only), to see if we think 6 months is too long, too short, or just right.

Note that the result of this vote will apply to ALL decisions, affirmative and negative.

We had 93 total voters.
64 voted Yes
27 voted No
2 voted NP

70.33% of voters with a preference voted Yes.

Of those who voted No, 14 voted for 3 months, 11 voted for 4 months, and one person each voted for 2 and 12 months.

This decision will stand until June 29th, at which point it may be revisited.

Thanks to all who voted, with a special shout-out to the lurkers.

Hey! Eric Idle is 60 today! (March 29)

NickBrendon.com has launched the Nicholas Appreciation Project in answer to many queries about a way to thank Nicholas for seven years of portraying Xander Harris.

We're encouraging people to donate to the Stuttering Foundation of America, the charity for which Nicholas has served as spokesperson since 2001.

Go to the project page for more information. You can also post thank you and happy birthday messages to Nicholas on the NB.com boards.

I've finally gotten around to updating the Buffista Photo Gallery. Newly added photos from: Sophia Brooks, Rebecca Lizard, arby, Raquel, Min, Laura, tralfamadore2001, erikaj, ChiKat, moonlit, and brenda m.

There may be connectivity issues between 7pm and 8pm Tuesday April 1st while HostRocket (our host) installs a new network line.