{"id":11751,"date":"2015-05-13T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=11751"},"modified":"2015-05-13T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:50:21","slug":"geek-month-in-review-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=11751","title":{"rendered":"Geek Month in Review: April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

by JB Sanders<\/p>\n

Spring flowers!<\/p>\n

World\u2019s Largest Airship Nearly Ready for the Skies<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe airship is set to return to the skies (with helium!), now in an industrial capacity.<\/p>\n

Fiction to Invention: Timeline<\/a><\/strong>
\nGreat infographic on the time it took for something that appeared in science fiction to turn into fact.<\/p>\n

All the Best Supervillains Have Them<\/a><\/strong>
\nElon Musk made a twitter post that seems especially appropriate.<\/p>\n

Chinese Farmer Builds Transformer Figures<\/a><\/strong>
\nDoesn\u2019t sound all that exciting, does it? Did I mention that these \u201cfigures\u201d are life-sized (as in 20-feet tall)? And made out of car parts? They look pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

I Think There\u2019s a Movie In This<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe U.S. Bureau of Land Management is looking to find people to live in an abandoned mining town that has a reputation for being haunted. You should totally do it! All the cool kids are. And I\u2019m certain that nothing would ever go wrong with living in a haunted ghost town. Definitely.<\/p>\n

Wanna Buy a Village?<\/a> <\/strong>
\nSpeaking of abandoned properties, there\u2019s a little village in Connecticut \u2014 all 64 acres of it \u2014 that is up for sale again. It was a mill town, then the mill burned, then it was a Victorian recreation village, and then it was planned to be a created community. <\/p>\n

The Invisible Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong>
\nReally fascinating visualization of all the airplanes going into and out of the UK airspace in the course of a day.<\/p>\n

Ancient Computer Festival<\/a><\/strong>
\nMarvel at the vacuum tubes! Wonder at the giant cabinets! See the original iMac doorstop. All this and more at the Vintage Computer Festival East.<\/p>\n

Chernobyl Fox Makes Sandwich<\/a><\/strong>
\nYup, we got us some mutants. No doubt.
\nNote: auto-playing vide<\/p>\n

GM Futureliner \u2014 the Car of the Future, In the 1950\u2019s<\/a><\/strong>
\nThey just don\u2019t make \u2018em like that anymore \u2014 because they NEVER made them like this. A vehicle both huge and odd-looking, it does have the whiff of a 1950\u2019s future. They were put together by General Motors as traveling exhibits to showcase GM tech. And they are monstrously big: 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 11\u2019 2\u201d high.<\/p>\n

The Internet of Cows<\/a><\/strong>
\nResearchers in San Francisco are attaching special pedometers to cows. They’ll track all sorts of data about them to help dairy farmers with their herds.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a> About John:<\/strong>
\nJohn’s a geek from way back. He’s been floating between various computer-related jobs for years, until he settled into doing tech support in higher ed. Now he rules the Macs on campus with an iron hand (really, it’s on his desk).<\/p>\n

Geek Credentials:<\/strong>
\nRPG:<\/strong> Blue box D&D, lead minis, been to GenCon in Milwaukee.
\nComputer:<\/strong> TRS-80 Color Computer, Amiga 1000, UNIX system w\/reel-to-reel backup tape
\nCard games:<\/strong> bought Magic cards at GenCon in 1993
\nScience:<\/strong> Met Phil Plait, got time on a mainframe for astronomy project in 1983
\nHis Blog:<\/strong>http:\/\/www.glenandtyler.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"