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and are regulated under 55 Meats, rather than 52 Animals Talk about your "you must be fun at parties"; and this isn't necessarily directed at you, floatingatol
by mikestew 5y ago
and are regulated under 55 Meats, rather than 52 Animals
Talk about your "you must be fun at parties"; and this isn't necessarily directed at you, floatingatoll, but when I see comments like this I often wonder if it's a case of "memorizes USPS shipping rules for fun" or more likely "worked on a contract once where we had to codify USPS shipping rules into an application, so I don't have them memorized but sure as hell know where to look".
For example, I've written code for computers to consume for the vast majority of my career. But go ahead and ask me the finer points of cellophane manufacturing...please, I've been waiting years for it to come up in conversation.
- teachrdan 5y agoI would like to sign up for cellophane facts.
- floatingatoll 5y agoI, too, would like to hear stories about cellophane manufacturing. Mike, you should hook up with The Prepared email newsletter and ask to be a guest author some week. They would be super excited to have you participate. :)
- mikestew 5y agoMan, tough crowd. One smart ass remark turns into writing a newsletter article. :-) In seriousness, I'll make an honest effort at seeing if I can come up enough interesting paragraphs, and then check The Prepared (a new one to me). Here's a preview of what I learned on my first day: cellophane is made from wood (which gets pulped, and broken down with nasty chemicals). I always assumed it was some kind of plastic. I was there to get them off that mainframe, but hung out with those on the floor when I could. Depending on one's career path, though, I think we all collect little tidbits along the way that are way outside of the software craft. I was a partner in a consulting company back in the 90s, and we specialized in small-medium businesses. Anything from cellophane to auto body shops to mail-order jewelry (class rings and the like). It wasn't always interesting (see: mail-order jewelry), but my "TIL" moments were probably more frequent than any other time.
- floatingatoll 5y agohttps://theprepared.org/newsletter-archive/2021-09-27 https://theprepared.org/newsletter-archive/2021-09-27 A post about cellophane would be perfect for this audience :)
- teachrdan 5y agoAgreed -- I already subscribe to the Prepared and can vouch for their readers' acute interests in manufacturing technology.
- floatingatoll 5y agoThe latter is closer than the former, but I’ve put in a lot of time reading postal regs and studying library classification over the years, so I can navigate their index pretty quickly, is all.
- sannee 5y agoTo be honest, just dealing with this once can make you remember it for eternity. For example, I know that if I want to declare a computer peripheral to the customs, there is a good chance to get the correct TARIC code in the chapter that literally starts with "Nuclear reactors"...