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Category Archives: Fub Facts
Fub Fact Friday: Two-Time Winner.
If you ever feel like you’re having a bad day at work, consider Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He was an engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries who was sent by his boss on a business trip to a nearby city. That city was … Continue reading
Fub Fact Friday: The Elephant on the Battlefield
May 9, 1864. Union and Confederate forces were facing off in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in northern Virginia. The Confederates had just taken possession of a shipment of new guns with rifled barrels, and the improved accuracy of … Continue reading
Fub Fact Friday: The Great Chiseler
So when Egyptologists started trying to parse out the history of Egypt, they ran into a really weird set of discoveries. Throughout the country, they kept finding all these monuments that essentially said “Ramesses II made this.” The problem was … Continue reading
Focus.
Once again, between the writing and trying to knock out a certification by next weekend, I’m just not putting a lot of random words down on the site. Space fub fact for the meantime: when the Apollo program missions began … Continue reading
Fub Fact Friday: A space rock that keeps away space tigers.
I love the logistics end of space exploration. The way humanity attempted to deal with the contingencies of the Space Race always entertain me. Like the fact that the Soviet space program had to deal with certain realities the American … Continue reading
Fub Fact Friday: Taste the rainbow.
There’s a really interesting phenomenon regarding how cultures identify colors. While not every culture has a word for every color, the way colors are identified and named follows a very distinct pattern that is the same no matter where you … Continue reading
Fub Fact Friday: The Turn of a Friendly Card.
Missing someone today, so I spent much of the evening scripting. This will be a short one, but a three-fer. I’ll make up by maybe, just fucking maybe getting the opening chapter of Elsewhere up this weekend. Depends on whether … Continue reading
Fub Fact Friday: DBF.
There are an astonishing number of movies and books that depict submarine warfare involving two submerged hunter-killers in a deadly game of cat and mouse that ends with one taking a torpedo amidships, sending the crew to Davy Jones’ locker. … Continue reading
Fub facts.
I’ve always had a mind like Velcro for information. I used to go down rabbit holes before smartphones made it so easy to facilitate that practice; as a kid, even, I’d spend afternoons in the library reading up on any … Continue reading