Shore Acres and Cape Arago

[@RogCBrand]

Thanks!!! It's such a beautiful place, I never get tired of visiting it, just to relax! 100 years ago the Simpsons lived there in their huge mansion- there's a picture of the tennis court perched next to the ocean. There were no roads out there, so they had to go to town by boat!!!

[@RogCBrand]

Thanks Paul! Yeah, I gave up my film camera years ago- it was just soooo expensive to buy film & have it developed, especially when I take lots of pictures! :P The early digital cameras were pretty pathetic- though still it was neat to have one!- but they are getting better and better. My dad just got a new one that has almost no delay, which is one of the worst things about digitals, having to anticipate a picture & click the button a second before you want it taken! :D

[@RogCBrand]

@coccocatchanel Yeah! It's a special place! And I also love going to see it with all the Christmas lights, and the carolers singing in the gazebo, and the hot chocolate and cookies in the house! :D

[@RogCBrand]

I totally agree with you! I love having "seasons"! Storms are exciting, rain refreshing, a super cold day makes you feel alive, then getting a few really nice sunny days feels good- but having pretty much the same weather all the time would be so monotonous! Hope when you get up here you have lots of beautifully rainy days! :P

[@RogCBrand]

Thanks guys! Yeah, much of the terrain here is nearly as verticle as horizontal, so if you ever make it out here, you need to bring your mountain bikes, as well as your kayaks! :P

[@RogCBrand]

Yes! From growing up devouring sci-fi books I have always hoped that we would one day make some major discoveries that could help us to quickly travel to other star systems and terraform planets so we could live on them! If we start spreading out on other planets then humanity will never be in danger of extinction! Well, it would be nice if each of us had a robot to wash our clothes, mow the lawn, clean the house, walk the dog, repair the car, etc.! :D

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, though I've read about it and seen documentaries on it countless times, checking Wikipedia I saw that it was such a massive earthquake that it shook the whole Earth and that some boats sank in Louisiana, and water sloshed in wells in South Africa, on the opposite side of the world!!!! That is just amazing!!!

[@RogCBrand]

LOL! I was just getting ready to go as midnight is minutes away! Good night!!! :D

[@RogCBrand]

@coccocatchanel Yeah, a place that you can really relax in and enjoy is wonderful to have- we all need a sanctuary where we can get away from the stresses of life!

[@RogCBrand]

Thanks! LOL! That is bizarre! It makes you wonder if it would break your finger from the recoil when firing it!!!

[@RogCBrand]

LOL!!! My mom was a horrible cook- especially when I was little- so I started teaching myself to cook as a kid, so I could make food I could actually eat!!! :P When you think about it, crab & lobster come from the same line as insects & spiders! Then people pay lots to eat snails! And of course they say we eat so many pounds of insects a year on/in fresh fruit & vegetables or that end up processed into other foods! But it's different eating insects you don't know are there! :D

[@RogCBrand]

Well, that makes sense as it's a name of elegance and beauty! :P

[@RogCBrand]

@coccocatchanel Yeah, unfortunately, it's hard to find a good time to enjoy them, as December tends to be cold and very wet- I don't normally mind the rain, but strolling through the garden looking at Christmas lights is something you want to do when it's dry- though a rare snow would actually be nice!

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, it's 17 miles south of me, though it's a very winding road out there so it takes a while to get there. I've wanted to capture the place when all the Christmas lights are up, but my camera just wouldn't be up to it.

[@RogCBrand]

Thanks Curtis! The fog washes things out a bit more in the transfer from the pictures to the KZbin vid, but not too bad.

[@RogCBrand]

Oh! When my parents were teens the 1964 after the huge Alaska earthquake and the Tsunami hit all along the coast. Some people were killed 100 miles south at Crescent City. They said people flocked to the beach to watch it!!! I guess people didn't really understand what Tsunamis were really like!

[@RogCBrand]

@coccocatchanel I was born there, but grew up in the Willamette Valley. I moved back to the coast, but had to move back to the valley looking for work- Oregon's been ranked 2 and 3rd worst employment in the country and the south coast is in really bad shape!

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, most of my really beautiful pictures end up only a shadow of what they really are!

[@RogCBrand]

Whoa! Yeah, I guess to make a gun that tiny that would work would require some very precision manufacturing! It definitely seems like an assassin's type of weapon!

[@RogCBrand]

Thankfully no! We're 400 miles north of San Francisco, so it would probably take something like a 9 or 10 for us to feel it- but there is an active fault just about 100 miles out in the ocean from us, so I have one of those weather radios that'll come on in an emergency- just in case there's a Tsunami. I'm a mile in from the ocean and probably 60 feet above sea level, so it shouldn't be a problem, but I'd still get Liquorice, some food & water & hike up the hill a bit- just in case!

[@RogCBrand]

Roger? Roger? Oh! That's my name! I was trying to remember it! :P

[@RogCBrand]

Exactly! If they came up with a pill that would let us all live to be 200 years old, then would that be a good thing, as the world would even more quickly be filled up! There's only so much room & resources & we're getting stretched thin already. But yeah, they experiments with rats, etc., & as they get more & more crowded they have more disease, violence between each other, etc., just like what we see with humans in our world! Living beings need room to live!

[@RogCBrand]

Sometimes I wonder if maybe instead of tax credits for having kids, we should give credits for those that don't have kids! It wouldn't hurt to get the Earth's population down to 1 or 2 billion and keep it there! Wars, famine, poverty, pollution all depend on population and anything we do to fix those problems would be a thousand times more effective with a much smaller number of people on this planet!

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, the future could be great if we can keep things from getting to far out of hand so we have time to develop great advances in technology that can help us, by providing cheap, clean almost limitless power through fusion, or space travel to allow us to find & colonize other planets around other stars, etc. But if we overpopulate too much we could end up with a second Dark Age where we actually go backwards, and the scary thing is that seems more likely right now!

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, San Francisco, Tokyo, Alaska, as well as many other places are due, eventually, for a huge earthquake- not if, but when. Also, around here, we're going to have more volcanic eruptions, and if it's Mt. Ranier, Seattle's in big trouble, while Mt. Hood could devastate Portland! Even in modern times we humans are no match for Mother Nature!!! LOL! I think HumorLaughterSarcasm is a great one, so yeah, just stick with it! :P

[@RogCBrand]

LOL! Yeah, I've read about stuff like Civil War battlefields and other historic stuff that is disappearing, acre by acre, year by year. 20, 50, 100 years from now you have to wonder how many beautiful or historically important palces will be parking lots and cheap buildings... It's sad!

[@RogCBrand]

I'll send you the picture! Movie Maker and KZbin mess up the color and quality so much! :D

[@RogCBrand]

Eww!!! There's no amount of money to get me to do some of those things!!! :o Oh! As far as stuff moving I've seen people on t.v. in Thailand where they went to a restaurant where small live squid are in fishbowls on the tables. The chef takes it, chops the tentacles off & people eat them as they're till squirming- I guess occasionally someone chokes as the suckers grab on to their throat!!!

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, I get that a lot- sometimes I can see that just maybe I got the code wrong but there are times when I KNOW that I got it right, but it still says it was wrong! KZbin is EVIL!!!

[@RogCBrand]

:P Thanks L!!! :D

[@RogCBrand]

@coccocatchanel I had a very close friend who killed himself, and I've often wished I could go back and change things, but at the time I just couldn't imagine something so bad happening.

[@RogCBrand]

@coccocatchanel Yeah, my grandma worked there for a while and she said some of the nuns were actually very mean. And my mom said some of them were really mean to her when she was giving birth to me.

[@RogCBrand]

LOL! Yeah, they must sign a whole lot of stuff!!! You've got to figure all the stuff they do on there you could have most of them suing even years later claiming problems from food, as well as phsyical or emotional trauma! :P And we often see that just because someone is stupid and willingly does something they know can be bad for them, they often later feel the need to blame someone else! :D

[@RogCBrand]

LOL! KZbin's only purpose for the codes is to make things a pain for us!!! :P

[@RogCBrand]

@coccocatchanel Ah, I was born at McCauley! That's a shame that they came in and ruined it! And that's so horrible about your friend!

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, they say one of those hits here every few centuries so it could be any time! It wiped out Indian villages all down the coast and even reached Japan 4,000 miles away- not huge there but enough to damage some villages and kill some people!

[@RogCBrand]

I figure that if a pandemic or world war doesn't kill off a large portion of the human race, then we'll see a world like something in sci-fi movies like Soylent Green, where real food, like a strawberry, costs a fortune and people survive on bricks of "food"... Soylent Green is made of people!!! :P

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah it's kind of sad when you think about how much of the world struggles to get enough food to eat while in places like the U.S. & Western Europe the problem is finding ways to lose weight from eating way too much! LOL! Oh, he eats some crazy stuff! You know something is really, really bad when even he has to spit it out! :P I remember seeing a documentary on a tribe on the Amazon & how they roast tarantulas. One of the scientists tried it & said it tastes just like lobster! :P

[@RogCBrand]

Yeah, from statistics I've seen the most modern countries, like the U.S., Canada, Western Europe & Japan have actually have negative population growth, so the only thing that is increasing populations there is immigration. The places where population is exploding is the poorest nations which are the ones that can't take care of the people they have, much less the constant rise- and that rise is despite the deaths from disease, starvation & violence! It's a crazy world!!!

[@RogCBrand]

LOL! You're welcome!!! :P

[@RogCBrand]

Well, I plan to have my brain transplanted into a robot body and live forever! : ) Of course, I'll eventually be a senile robot... :(

[@RogCBrand]

Oh! So now KZbin is so cheap they have to recycle codes!!!

[@Summer309]

When I move up there I will be so grateful to get away from all this Sunshine,it is over rated and a bunch of happy horse shit. I hate the heat and I will be happy if it rains 350 days a year :) seriously! I'm only happy when it rains.

[@RogCBrand]

LOL! :P

[@RogCBrand]

LOL! And they say, pound for pound, there is nothing more nutritious than insects! I bet that will be a source of food in the future if overpopulation continues- maggot-burgers and cockroach-loaf! :P