Charging Your Chakras Journal & Workbook - Kickstarter Campaign

So, my wife has been busy for the past several years.  She's taken classes, read book, and had one-on-one meetings with teachers.  And now, she has taken all that knowledge and experience, distilled it, and written a book.  It's a journal & workbook with instruction and daily practices.

She launched it on Friday on Kickstarter.

I think it's a really amazing book with meditations for daily practice and for when you just need to change your focus.

I honestly encourage everyone to check it out and back it if you find it resonates with you.

Kickstarter: Littlest Lovecraft

So with this post and the previous one, you might think that I'm addicted to Kickstarter.  the truth is that yesterday was a big day for one of the Kickstarter teams that I've been following and supporting since their start.

Tro Rex and Eyo Bella (no idea if that's their real names or not), have been creating a series called Littlest Lovecraft which puts a cool spin on H.P. Lovecraft's stories by formatting them like a children's story.

I got the first one, Call of Cthulhu of course, and have been hooked ever since.  One of the things that keep my interest are the gifts of gratitude.  Their stretch goals are always fun, and the thank you postcard they send out about halfway between the end of the campaign and shipping is just too cool.  They're really the best communicators of any team I've backed.

Yesterday, they started their fifth and final Kickstarter for Littlest Lovecraft with the Dreamlands Collection.

My hope and goal is that they make their $27,500 stretch goal, because I would love to have the slipcase for all five books.

Go check them out.  All of the books are available if you're interested for just $105.

Kickstarter: Snapdice

So I like Kickstarter.

John Kovalic summed it up pretty well in a Dork Tower a few years ago:



Every now and then I search the site with the keyword "dice".  Yesterday, I found this project: Snapdice.

It looks so cool to use, plus I got the option of an additional die to have my GURPS trio, as well as the polyhedral set option as well.  The 4-sider is a cool new take on the obnoxious shape.

Magnets, the Inverse Cube Law

Last week I received another purchase from Kickstarter in the mail: my Polar Pen.

If I remember correctly, I read about the Polar Pen Kickstarter on iO9 or Gizmodo.  They linked to the sales pitch video, and I was hooked.

I had missed out on Buckyballs, since they were alarmistly forced from the market in the US, and out of business.  I had put off buying them, thinking they would be available for a long time because they were so popular.  I was even leaning towards the Buckycubes, but alas, it was not to be.

I once again agree with George Carlin.

So, I wasn't going to miss out on another cool magnet toy.

I remember when neodymium magnet started coming out.  I bought a tiny one in a plastic disc from my mineralogy class in college.  The disc was about the size of three dimes stacked together, and open up to give a small disc to hold onto while the other half holding a half centimeter diameter cylinder magnet dangled from a thread.  It was perfect for detecting iron in the samples were had to identify in class.  We found that the magnet was a little stronger than the typical bar magnets, and tended to show minerals were magnet when they had not been described that way in our texts.  Our teacher was a bit surprised, but said to make note of it, and add it to our practice flashcards.

Now I have to get home this weekend, and find where I have that stashed...