{"id":5020,"date":"2011-08-04T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T20:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2011\/08\/01\/"},"modified":"2011-08-04T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T20:55:12","slug":"geek-year-in-review-year-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=5020","title":{"rendered":"Geek Year in Review: Year One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guess what folks? It has been one year of the “Geek Month in Review”! I’m so pleased that at least once a month there is a place for comics, science, games, technology, and other geeky things to live here on The Magical Buffet. And if the comments and website views are to be believed, many of you have been amused by this now one year old tradition here on the site too. Sure, I poke fun at the volume of 3D printer or Doctor Who stories John opts to include most months, but at the end of the day….I knew a whole heck of a lot about 3D printers before they showed up on The Colbert Report…..and doesn’t everyone love Doctor Who?<\/p>\n

So happy birthday to the “Geek Month in Review”!<\/em><\/p>\n

By JB Sanders<\/p>\n

Writing the Geek Review article has been a lot like sharing links with my friends — with less “seen it” than real life. I read a lot, and frequently come across the oddest little news items. Putting them together into one article has been really a lot of fun — it’s much different than blasting one link across FaceBook. When you see them all pushed up into one place like that, grouped together, it’s a far more surreal and yet somehow pleasant experience.<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to call it my Museum of the Geeky Weird. I’ve found some really interesting Curiosities (to me, anyway) and glommed them together into my own Cabinet*. So, please, wander the exhibits, press your nose against the glass, and whatever you do, don’t feed the monkeys.
\nBelow are the best of the best, or what I thought were the most endurably interesting of this past year. <\/p>\n

* If you want to know what I mean, a link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Behind the Scenes Photos<\/a><\/strong>
\nFrom little movies like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Other shots:
\n\u2022\tHow they did the Empire Strikes Back text crawl (you’ll be surprised).
\n\u2022\tA shot of Alfred Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren and some birds.
\n\u2022\tA shot inside the giant alien spacecraft in Alien.
\n\u2022\tA picture of Max Schreck lounging creepily. (Bonus geek points if you know the Other Movie this ties into, all too eerily.)
\n\u2022\tReally, why are you still reading this blurb? Click on the link already!<\/p>\n

This is How Science-Fiction Becomes Reality<\/a><\/strong>
\nAustrian scientists have developed a new way to do what rotors on helicopters and airplanes have done before now. Heck, their flying machines don’t even need wings. They produce thrust by using rotating turbine-like blades, and because those blades can be adjusted, the D-Dalus can produce thrust in any direction, 360 degrees. It’s also fine with rough weather and nearly silent. <\/p>\n