Neil Ramsay

Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:07 UTC

Oh my, that is a beautiful ball of huggable floofiness. That cat is not wanting for sustenance.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

And they weren't flipping it over? Why weren't they flipping it over, Leon... er... Manning?

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

"Oh sorry. That's just temporary. We ran out of space in the Johnson plot, so we're storing a few bodies in yours in the interim. Don't worry, we'll get them moved by Christmas."

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:06 UTC

Pleasure to meet you, Hi-Tom Hi-Tom Medium-Tom Medium-Tom Low-Tom Low-Tom Floor-Tom Floor-Tom.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:59 UTC

A lot of that depends on how often they scrub down the insides of the water tanks. On planes, it's, like, never (which is why it's often worse to wash your hands on a plane than not, 'cause they're FILTHY). But... maybe some hand sanitiser? Just... don't shake hands with that guy.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:11 UTC

Thank you for voting. :)

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:09 UTC

I had for a couple of weeks. I'm back for now, but we'll see. :) Cryptomeria japonica 'Cristata' CAN be super fast. Or relatively slow. It seems more affected by light than some other cultivars. It's gorgeous, though. Buccholz nursery has a HUGE one (I'll see if I can find a pic).

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

This is a decent sized one, but they get much bigger. :) Mine, of course, has grown 16" in 10 years because I have it in semi-heavy shade. But in full sun, they absolutely take off.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:57 UTC

I think you may be onto something... I deactivated my account for two weeks. Came back and posted 'Happy Canada Day' (that's it. That was the post). Was blocked by 2 people. Got some... creative DMs.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 10:49 UTC

Perfect! I can see the posters now...

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:20 UTC

The child would then have to find the right spell to stop the rampage, which would involve gathering some friends together, probably some montages, and some really inadvisable wizardry.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

Love it! Looks great, Amalas!

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

Clearly not, given your personal challenge to yourself!

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

But now's your chance to embrace your hidden desire to study everything you can about 18th century architecture and building construction! 😉

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

They're pretty disorganised in the US as well. And often project-based, so a group will gather money and then do a project for a reforestation effort after seeing how much is in the budget, what kind of bids they get for seedlings, expected costs, etc. It takes a LONG time to get things going.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

Contact their leadership directly. A lot of reforestation groups can vary from season to season, and from crop to crop, so it's tough to keep that kind of thing on a website updated. It's better to contact the leadership and ask who you can talk to about reforestation help, as they should know.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

All the people I know with a lot of land (some of whom would be super pro-commune of like-minded individuals and artists) live in places I wouldn't want to move to... Georgia... TN... Florida... West Virginia... I need a friend with, like, 60 acres in Vermont. Or Colorado. Or Oregon or something.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:36 UTC

I'm sure, right now, it's in the hands of a curious young child who's about to have an adventure that will hit theatres in Spring 2025...

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

Vermont... doesn't have a lot of tall buildings, so you might be in luck.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:37 UTC

I mean… there are apartments…

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:47 UTC

As long as you can find a job and a place to stay, you'd be all right. But I'd go up for a visit first. Check it out. See what's available. Maybe apply for a job. THEN escape. :)

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:18 UTC

I think mostly because it's convenient. Bartering's cool and all, but not everyone has STUFF. So you create this sort of generic 'stuff' that people can all carry around that you trade for... and bam. Money is born. And suddenly, some people want to hoard all of it, despite the harm that does.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

Well... I've an ex in Vermont that would almost certainly put you up on her couch for a bit if we all had to escape suddenly. That said, I haven't given up hope that some long lost member of the family is a billionaire and has decided to bequeath it all to me...

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:08 UTC

Bloody depressing, isn't it.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

Happy Canada Day!

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 22:58 UTC

What are we thinking here? Yes? No? This is possibly one of the end of year launch items.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

There's a new Apple TV show called Dark Matter that started this year that has nothing to do with the 2015 one.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 20:57 UTC

Dark Matter (the original) was brilliant. But it didn't really have any kind of resolution before it got cancelled, which kind of annoyed me.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

Lexx was definitely... a show. Have you done the usual gamut of things like Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda, the 1980s Buck Rogers, etc? 'Cause those are all filled with camp. But also semi-coherent. At times.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

I mean... it's a shortened form of 'taking this piss out of (me/someone),' which is equally incomprehensible, but that's slang for you. Beans on toast is grand. The C of E far less so.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

I adore Red Dwarf, but I don't know if I've ever shown any of it to my wife. I may have subjected her to some of it. At least enough so that she'll get my gazpacho soup references.

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Neil Ramsay @nramsay.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

Amazon shipped the wrong item AGAIN as a replacement for the wrong item they shipped the last time. They are truly a pinnacle of logistics over there...

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