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Inside the Red Head's HeadShippingIt’s weird but I actually have two packages that have been shipped out by me over the last couple of days. One is a passport renewal form that went out via Fed Ex last night and the other is seven rolls of 35mm film* that I sent out via USPS on Saturday. Which will arrive at its destination first? The race is on! In this post-pandemic era of online shopping it’s common to be following packages that are on their way to you, but less common to have to follow packages that are on their way from you. Maybe not. I don’t know. I have to write about something.Apparently you can spend six months in Scotland without a visa. Who knew? Ireland only lets you stay for three months. England and Wales are also six months, so is that a UK thing in general? What about Australia? I’ve recently watched two television shows that took place in Australia so I feel like I practically live there already. Duck Duck Go (fuck you, Google) says you need to obtain an Australian visa before you arrive. Well that’s no fun. Kevin Garvey, Jr and Nora Durst must have already had a visa when they left Miracle, TX on The Leftovers. Kevin Garvey, Sr… well who knows that that whack job was doing. He sure as hell didn’t.The Bruins season ended last night on another painful loss. Some teams still have a game left to play, but my team is done. Mercifully. The best they can finish is tied with Philly for last place in the Eastern Conference. The worst they can do is finish in last all by their lonesome. Unfortunately for the draft lottery, there are 4-5 teams out west that will finish with worse records. Not that we have a General Manager who knows how to draft for shit though. In other Boston sports news, the Red Sox actually won a game last night after getting humiliated on Monday night. Fun.I’m in the office today and tomorrow so the pickin’s for photo a day will be slim. Not that it matters. They are all just pictures of cats anyway. This one for today made use of the iPhone’s low light feature. It works well.<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54455674076/in/datetaken/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54455674076/in/datetaken/</a> *35mm film refers to the size of the negative… I think. 120 film does not refer to the size of the negative. I read somewhere that it refers to an old Kodak catalog product code. Mentioning 35mm and 120 film in the same sentence makes my ass itch. It’s like doing your physics homework and mixing up your units of measure. It’s like referring to velocity (measured in meters/seconds) and acceleration (measured in meters/seconds squared) as if they were the same thing. I believe the product code for 35mm is actually 135 (not too confusing there, Kodak) but I don’t know what the negative size for 120 film is. I can’t bring myself to call 35mm 135 so I guess I will continue to mix units and have an itchy ass. I could say medium format instead of 120 but that just feels like taking it all a step too far. I don’t know.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/120-film/" target="_blank">#120Film</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/35mm-film/" target="_blank">#35mmFilm</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/365/" target="_blank">#365</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/365-challenge/" target="_blank">#365Challenge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/365-project/" target="_blank">#365Project</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/baseball/" target="_blank">#Baseball</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/boston-bruins/" target="_blank">#BostonBruins</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/boston-red-sox/" target="_blank">#BostonRedSox</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/bruins/" target="_blank">#Bruins</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/cat/" target="_blank">#Cat</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/dont-mix-your-units/" target="_blank">#donTMixYourUnits</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/film-photography/" target="_blank">#filmPhotography</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/hockey/" target="_blank">#Hockey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/iphoneography/" target="_blank">#iphoneography</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/kitty/" target="_blank">#Kitty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/measurements/" target="_blank">#measurements</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/medium-format-film/" target="_blank">#mediumFormatFilm</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/mixed-units/" target="_blank">#mixedUnits</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/photo-a-day/" target="_blank">#photoADay</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/photo-a-day-challenge/" target="_blank">#photoADayChallenge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/photo-a-day-project/" target="_blank">#photoADayProject</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/photography/" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/physics/" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/red-sox/" target="_blank">#RedSox</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/robin/" target="_blank">#robin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/shipping/" target="_blank">#shipping</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/shipping-and-receiving/" target="_blank">#shippingAndReceiving</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/shipping-receiving/" target="_blank">#shippingReceiving</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/sports/" target="_blank">#Sports</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/units-of-measure/" target="_blank">#unitsOfMeasure</a>

CoolerPseudonym“Or, 930 Philadelphia Pints!” (from “The Selling Wizard”, 1954 short, with "The Dead Talk Back”, ep 6-03)If I recall my MST3k lore correctly, nobody ever figured out what a “Philadelphia Pint” is.One assumes a Philadelphia Pint was used in ice-cream distribution, a standard LxWxH size for a boxed pint of ice cream. But there's little evidence of this. it's something of a mystery.<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MST3k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MST3k</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/UnitsOfMeasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitsOfMeasure</a>

Rasta™ OLDOut looking for <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/Bissell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bissell</a> products that no one carries. While looking for substitutions, my <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/PetPeeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PetPeeve</a> showed it's ugly head again. Never mind the product. Do you ever get annoyed at flip-flopping between Imperial and Metric measure? (like, in 🇨🇦 eh!)60 ounce; 60 ounce; 946 ml (That's 32 oz in two products)I get this in Grocery Produce too, VEG by the Kilo, weight listed in pounds. <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/UnitsOfMeasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitsOfMeasure</a> <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/Measurement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Measurement</a> <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/Metric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metric</a> <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/Pricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pricing</a> <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/Products" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Products</a> <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/Standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Standards</a> <a href="https://halifaxsocial.ca/tags/PickAnotherStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PickAnotherStore</a>

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕Koku: Rice for a person for year<blockquote>The koku (石) is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume, 1 koku is equivalent to 10 to (斗) or approximately 180 litres (40 imp gal; 48 US gal), or about 5 bushels. It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1000 gō. One gō is the volume of the "rice cup", the plastic measuring cup that is supplied with commercial Japanese rice cookers.</blockquote><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koku" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koku</a>As @Anosognosiogenesis notes at Twitter, the Koku is not merely a measure of volume, but of mass, energy (food kilocalories), and of economic capacity:<blockquote>Thus one koku is 513,540 calories per year. 1,406 per day. 1 koku of white rice weighs about 150kg, or 330lbs. Feudal estates were measured in koku, it was a basic economic unit. The economy was measured in, literally, how many people it could keep alive.</blockquote><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1341482597013196802.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1341482597013196802.html</a>And for all the metric fettishists out there, the Koku (and gō) are both practical and decimal units.<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/unitsOfMeasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unitsOfMeasure</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/gdp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gdp</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/rice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rice</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energy</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wealth</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/value" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#value</a>

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