Lemon pepper mahi-mahi with pineapple-mango salsa over stone ground grits from Locklear’s Beach City Grill at the Folly Beach Fishing Pier on Folly Beach.
Key lime pie
Charleston Eats: Locklear’s Beach City Grill
Mug o Dice
At Dragon*Con, the dice booths are always chronically busy. There you can find all manner of dice for gaming. There’s also the large tanks full of dice where you can buy a cup, container or pitcher of dice, either randomly scooping it out or picking them out yourself (which costs more).
I’ve always been a sucker for dice, so I picked up a random mug scoop-o-dice to play with and also to fill the dice bag I was expecting to receive.
I figured it was time I went through and looked at what I got out of the random mug.
- 17d20
- 12d10
- 4d8
- 15d6
- 2d4
A total of 50 dice. Not a single d12 in the entire mug though. A little disappointed. d12s are one of my favourites.
I’m not sure why, but I’ve always enjoyed just picking up a handful of dice and rolling them. Most times I don’t even bother looking at the numbers. Feeling a handful of dice rolling around in your hand, hearing them clatter on the table. Rinse and repeat. It’s got kind of zen quality to it.
Cthulu in the office
Orange Cthulu arrived at my office today and promptly started into discussions with Cylon Snowbot
“This is of no concern to you, mortal”. Uh oh.
Then he floated over to meet with Dogbert and Tux, using the Mug of VI as his platform
More hushed whispering. It wasn’t long before Brain and Snowbot joined them
I think I should be afraid.
BarcampCHS tickets available now!
Tickets for this year’s BarCamp Charleston are now available through Eventbrite!
Tickets this year are $10 to help cover some of the costs associated with Barcamp. That gets you breakfast, lunch, a t-shirt and the awesomeness that is BarcampCHS. There’s also an individual sponsor option ($25) which includes the above plus parking and the knowledge that you’re helping to make the awesomeness that is BarcampCHS possible.
The new website is also up and running so go propose your sessions!
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
I must be more out of touch with the Star Trek community than I though. Somehow I managed to completely miss hearing anything at all about Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. I only found out about it earlier this evening when I was looking up Garret Wang in IMDB for editing a previous post.
Apparently ST:OGAM was made three years ago in 2007 as a 3 part web miniseries tribute for the 40th anniversary of Star Trek. It takes plot elements from at least 5 episodes (I stopped counting), actors from each series and spins it all into 3 episodes and just over 90 minutes of viewing. I’m pretty sure everybody who appeared in the show had some connection with at least one Star Trek series.
I really enjoyed watching it, and thought it was well done. This Trek fan approves, even though I’m probably the last one to find out about it.
