My Final Impressions of America | Inconsequential Stories #2

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8 жыл бұрын

Why do people look at dick pics on their phone?! Anyway, more impressions of America and some amazing Monterey Aquarium shots ;)
Also, I think this is one of the very few times I've uploaded a fully uncut video of myself talking (this is quite rare). Maybe this means I am finally more comfortable blabbering in front of a camera.

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@tjport1980 7 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you had a good time in the US, especially since you were in Portland Or, where I live.

@bobchavez7760 7 жыл бұрын

Great video love your accent and hello from Arizona

@TheSunkenGrave 7 жыл бұрын

Glad that you enjoyed your visit. You should make more visits in the future and experience the differing regions.

@finding.a.new0 7 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked our cultures! I wish we knew each other to give you tours of many places. If ever you are around southern California let me know to show you around!

@davidnelson1728 6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed your trip here. You covered quite a lot of ground in what I think you said was 1 week. You chose really good places to tour. I've done all but Powell's Bookstore. My son lives in Eugene, OR (only about 150Km south of Portland. I will definitely go there on one of my visits to see him & his family. Maybe you had a chance to go walking in one of the lovely Universities like UC Berkeley, Stanford, or Cal Poly in San Louis Obispo. They are really lovely & filled with marvelously educated & enthusiastic students. MB Aquarium is a terrific place to visit & it changes all the time. Not the big tanks, of course, but the little hands on experiences. Pier 39 in San Francisco is so surprisingly serene for being in a big city. Best wishes.

@CaptainHightop 8 жыл бұрын

I miss Portland and Powell"s sooo much! I could spend entire Saturdays there!I hope my odd and friendly fellow Portlanders were good hosts. It sounds like your hotel was in the Lloyd district near the convention center, if you ended up at Denny's. I'm sorry that you ended up at any Denny's, but I am particularly sorry it was that Denny's lol.

@Ash-vv5ei 8 жыл бұрын

Good! ... Now, time to come back. :B

@CaseyinTexas 7 жыл бұрын

I lived in both Portland and Monterey (actually Ft. Ord). As a graduate of Portland State with a degree in history, I spent a lot of time in Powell's city of books. In Monterey, since active duty military got free admission into the aquarium, I was a regular visitor there and around Cannery Row.

@r.h.3084 7 жыл бұрын

To the guy in the elevator you should have said, "Well, you won't have to worry about the file size being too big on those." :)

@davidfrischknecht8261 6 жыл бұрын

If you ever get the chance to go out by Cincinnati, OH, you should pay a visit to the Newport Aquarium across the river in Newport, KY.

@ConfusedGirlButSmartDude 8 жыл бұрын

I NEED to go to that bookstore!

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

+NonBinary Noah You really do!! It is incredible :) And I thought the Blackwell's in Oxford was amazing :D

@gilharrison8696 6 жыл бұрын

I would love to talk with you about the classics.

@monstermirror2 8 жыл бұрын

You're really looking energized and quite relaxed at the same time. Very amusing (except for the elevator guy. Maybe he wanted to see people's reaction? Stupid. :/) P.S.: according to the bill board Ursula K. Le Guin had a reading at this book store? I didn't know she was still alive...

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

+monstermirror Cool! Probably not the day we were there, but we did meet Arnold Drake, who is a man who makes lots of nice paper sculptures in the coffee area of Powell's (we also met Adam Hurst, a celloist, at the airport - clearly I've left a lot out of the video...) :) it was a fantastic bookstore, I hope to go back one day :) As for the guy, I do truly think he was unaware people could see it, but it still makes me wonder why people do it in the first place xD.

@TimDespain 8 жыл бұрын

I was amazed that the zoo was open during the winter (it would seem detrimental to the animals' health). However, the giant second-hand bookstore was incredible in a good way. I can't get anything quite like that where I live.

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

+Tim Despain Quite a few of the animals were off exhibit and in indoors warmer locations (and all of them had the chance to move into shelter even in their outdoor locations) - but I do agree that although zoos do have great aspects, they aren't the best option for all of the animals they host.

@kevinlilly5628 5 жыл бұрын

Train travel is best way to see AMERICA.

@johndemello8802 7 жыл бұрын

Come back and stay a while!!!

@2300Kenzie 8 жыл бұрын

Did you get to visit Michael Dickenson's lab in Cali? He is a good guy to talk to and has a great sense of humour. I hope you get a chance to come back. We enjoy cheerful visitors such as yourself. We also do a little biological research now and then.

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! :D Hopefully I'll get to visit again next year - I loved California and its people! I'm so excited to see someone talking about Dickinson, and funny you should mention him - because I actually study insect flight and I was on the verge of going down to L.A. to visit his lab! I wasn't able to in the end (not enough time), but I did visit Robert Dudley in Berkeley, and also spoke to Stacey Combes who recently moved to UCDavis - so I did do some networking with flight scientists. :) If per chance you are interested in science content, I have a science channel at kzfaq.info which I think is a bit more interesting than this 'second channel' :p (this is a shameless plug)

@2300Kenzie 8 жыл бұрын

It wasn't coincidence. I read the card in the video and assumed you would know him. I used to work at the USAF Research Lab. A friend of mine is an aeronautical engineer and worked on insect biomimetic flight. I got to meet Michael when he was presenting at a conference in Dayton. He seemed happy that a biologist was finally looking at applying his research instead of engineers. I would say more, but I am offended by your shameless advert and have to take a moment to get over it. Hasta luego. (Extraño a Zaragoza.)

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

Hehe - the shameless advert was because I thought you'd probably prefer actual science videos over the stuff here :p I won't lie - I'm a bit jealous you got to meet him - I was at SICB this year, but he wasn't an attendee, though I did get to meet some of his current PhD students from his lab (and the USAF!) Great to stumble into someone who also works on biomimetics (or a field similar enough that you meet people who do work on it)!

@2300Kenzie 8 жыл бұрын

I used to include the statement "Shamelessly stolen from..." in my powerpoint presentations when listing a reference. Very handy when using the periodic table or other graphics from Science Made Stupid. I thought Michael was fun. Try to have dinner with him. Science is best discussed when the personal stories are included.

@thedoeguy 5 жыл бұрын

Nice video. You don't need to add the music.

@rockymountboy 5 жыл бұрын

Too cute!

@Ivan_Dequito 8 жыл бұрын

Pole! a ver que nieta cuentas hoy :) Deseando este video viajero!

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

+Ivan Dequito Los subtítulos vendrán otro día me temo, pero espero que te guste mucho el vídeo ^_^

@Ivan_Dequito 8 жыл бұрын

+RhymesWithFace sospecho que deberé verlo de nuevo. buena parte lo entendí, pero hay momentos de volumen muy bajo, o velocidad excesiva para mi nivel XDDDD

@frankmoyer5822 5 жыл бұрын

Well at least the guy in the elevator wasn't taking the pictures in front of you. But I'm quite sure he was trying to get a reaction from you.

@NurseEmilie 4 жыл бұрын

Where do you come from? I didn't hear you say.

@chigimonky 7 жыл бұрын

4:01 Tortoises can't swim 😉

@DrawCuriosity 7 жыл бұрын

Oh whoops :p In Spain we just use tortuga generically to encompass tortoises, turtles and terrapins

@ClassPunkOnRumbleAndSubstack 8 жыл бұрын

I think that at some point in the distant future zoos will disappear. Guys sending dick pics probably have something to do with the prevalence of hook-up culture. Its cool that you are interested in evolution and biology.

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

+Class Punk I'll never understand dick pics - at least the unsolicited variety. Do you like Biology too? :) I'm actually working on a science channel which I want to release in May - so if you enjoy science hopefully you will like it ^_^

@ClassPunkOnRumbleAndSubstack 8 жыл бұрын

RhymesWithFace I haven't heard of any woman admitting she liked nudes, whereas, guys tend to like getting nudes. I chalk it up to differences in gender and brain. You have a lot of channels. I'm more scattered and just throw everything together on one. But that sounds cool and I will subscribe. I remember you said once that you also love statistics, you are very brainy, and I like that. =P I sent you a message about hangouts awhile back, but it must've got lost. Have a good day.

@RhymesWithFace 8 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing that message and then it completely vanished when I was looking for it to reply and I still can't find it (and being busy I was just a terrible person and didn't send a new one). I suspect it may be lost somewhere on Google+ ... :(

@ClassPunkOnRumbleAndSubstack 8 жыл бұрын

RhymesWithFace That's fine. I understand what its like to be busy. Google plus isn't the greatest, when they cut it off from youtube comments that sucked.

@lostalex77 8 жыл бұрын

the human body is art in and of itself. i suppose you are the type that thinks michelangelo's david should have a fig leaf over his crotch and that women who breast feed in public should be arrested.

@joerice1316 6 жыл бұрын

The background music is kinda annoying,hard to understand everything you are saying

@numbskullali9836 5 жыл бұрын

You are so cute.

@ramhemi75 5 жыл бұрын

Dont worry about your American accent. The English accent is sexy lol.

@NurseEmilie 4 жыл бұрын

You need to change your title of this video. I didn't hear anything about what you thought of America.

@RhymesWithFace 4 жыл бұрын

The title of the video is spot on and is not going to be changed. Also if you hated the video so much why did you come back to rewatch it again after 1 month?