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please hang name tags below each of these, so the trees get dignified names (such as “shady mcshade oak”) instead of just numbers
I want to name one!
"Mentos: The Fresh Air Maker"
Kinda catchy, might need a marketing campaign, hmmm
You can't name one, but in Melborne, Austrailia, you can email one.
http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/#mapexplore
They have mapped many of their trees and given each one an email address. According to their webpage it was really so that when a tree was damaged or diseased someone could simply "email the tree" and someone would be able to put the issue into the "lets get this issue fixed" queue.
But what happened was that folks were emailing the trees for non-repair type of issues and were general emails like the tree was living person, like an ENT from Lord of the Rings.
I was at the beginning "This is friggin awesome! Exactly what tech is supposed to be about"
Then the bomb dropped, man people are weird.
Case in point I was part of one of the first streaming companies online (2000). We would stream wrestling as our biggest draw until we got major sports onboard.
We had an email link for "support" for tech support.
A few days before the wrestling events we would get FLOODED with support emails... Nope not for why they can't get the test stream to work. But to support their favorite wrestler. It was insane the shit these people would write.
"Email Support". Yeah, I can kind of see someone wanting to support their favorite wrestler, and I bet people got really insane with their messages. Wrestling has some pretty interesting fans.
Perhaps if we named more tree's people would take better care of them.
Naming trees would definitely work. Case in point my buddy owns a big cattle farm. When his kids got older they named some of the calf's. He warned them thats not a good idea. Kids are kids and they ignored him.
Now he's not a beef or dairy farmer. He's a breeder, he has a stable of high quality cows and inseminates them for the calf's.
So his kids name a bunch of the calf's, bottle raise them w/ mom cows help then they goto auction. They were devastated that "Daisy" and "Jemirqui" where gone over a weekend.
They never named another cow after that, they learned it was a business the hard way. But humanizing them did change the dynamic. Like with naming tree's...
My wife names our trees and organizes their planting location on a regular basis because moving plants is good. She otherwise has absolutely no interest. Fruit trees? Yeah those go in the back under the shade. Right where the sun can go F itself. I'm quietly screaming for help.
You are experiencing a severe form of spousal abuse and tree abuse. Fruit trees no it the sun, moved around? I never took any of my plants for a walk like a puppy...
I feel for you my friend, I really do.
She's a little ADHD bipolar and autistic but without any clear indication. So I get to go around the house fixing things like Phillips screws that look like X and not correctly installed like +. I had to replace all our switch and outlets with unbreakable ones so I could tighten the screws and then get them to be + oriented but without cracking the plates.
I had a guy I worked w/ in construction that had the same thing about phillips had to + on the finish side of the build. So we cracked a lot of wall plates too.
Except he would lose his shit if you didn't, I found another gig soon after.
At least you don't love the guy. Lol.
Yeah I was thinking that, just didn't want to bring up that aspect up. Its got to be trying, but at least you found love! So many others never do, so take some solace in that :)
Every day.
One of my engineering buddies got a bipolar partner too. I don't know any details except that she burns thru his cash and got big big implants when she didn't feel that she was beautiful enough. Life has pluses and minuses. One time (you could dox me with a single person about this) but I was driving down a particularly famous road coming back from work when I suddenly realized how boring my life was going to be until I ended 6 feet under. It was a Friday. On Monday I started looking for dates. Eventually I met my wife. But that Friday drive I wished for my life to be a little more exciting and I washed to be surrounded by beautiful Asian women to make my life more exotic... And I should have been way way more specific. Also I did ask for beautiful exotic and I had to face palm already so many times. That flying spaghetti monster has a weird sense of humour. At Christmas I was like one in three guys in the entire family until I had my boys and some of the girls started getting married.
If I ever get to wish again I'm gonna chatGPT that prompt for a few weeks. Let's start with I wish for a Billion dollars so I can share it with my loved ones who happen to be my family and friends, but it has to be real monetary type American dollars and not obtain thru the loss of my health, my extremities... Specially little Johnny....not thru any other such loss, just thru happy coincidences and luck and good good things that are not bloody or personally degrading. And if I live longer than my wife I will hope to be surrounded by beautiful Asian women who love men very much... Damn that's gonna be my kids again! Okay, from the top....
Wow thats a lot to deal with and take in.
Take some comfort as a guy that has dated Asian Americans, Mainland Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans they are all a pain in the ass like the rest. Japanese especially. That whole subservient this is a myth in my experience, not that I was looking for that.
The grass isn't always greener, you just haven't seen the other side.
Now the Japanese girl was stupid rich. So that might have been a factor. Every stupid rich girl I have dated is always a total nightmare.
Well it's been 25 years of this. It's fine. The cultural differences are important though. But if you let her do her thing you'll learn. I think men are usually like this. We generally look for an adventure and culture is part of that. Ot might be our last name officially but it's all about the mother's DNA. That's the blood lineage. So we're just sort of there to take it all in and do what men do.... Get rid of the mice, the cats, the spiders or whatever. Life is good.