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The geeky way to be clean

My latest order of Geek Soap arrived today!

A variety of geeky themed soaps from GeekSoap.net. From the top left is a round soap with four soap d20 dice embedded in it. Next is a square soap with the Android logo. Top right is a square red soap with a Starfleet symbol. Bottom row left is a small game cartridge soap and bottom right is an Iron Man arc reactor soap.

The d20 massage soap is my favourite. There’s Android soap, Trek soap, arc reactor soap, and a wee little game cartridge soap.

Thanks Lesley!

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Charleston Eats: Locklear’s Beach City Grill

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.

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

A slice of key lime pie from Locklear's Beach City Grill at the Folly Beach Fishing Pier on Folly Beach.
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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.

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Cthulu in the office

Orange Cthulu arrived at my office today and promptly started into discussions with Cylon Snowbot

Orange Cthulu in discussions with Cylon Snowbot

“This is of no concern to you, mortal”. Uh oh.

'This is of no concern to you, mortal'

Then he floated over to meet with Dogbert and Tux, using the Mug of VI as his platform

Orange Cthulu meets with Dogbert and Tux

More hushed whispering. It wasn’t long before Brain and Snowbot joined them

Orange Cthulu, Dogbert, and Tux are joined by Brain and Snowbot

Orange Cthulu, Dogbert, and Tux are joined by Brain and Snowbot

I think I should be afraid.

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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!