Hank asks John and viewers what to do with his misprinted EcoGeek business cards (2007)
ask · status: reported back · last event: reminder (2012-11-13) · owner: John and Hank
In January 2007 Hank asked John and viewers what to do with his misprinted EcoGeek business cards. John and commenters sent ideas, and Hank built a card house and, by March, a cube from them; he found the cards again in 2012 and still showed the business card cube in 2022.
Parts: Hank: discuss the misprinted business card ideas on Wednesday (2007)
Told alongside: John finds and reads a picture book he wrote as a child, 'Happy New Year Streamers' (2009) · Hank: EcoGeek podcast (2007)
About: EcoGeek, Katherine Green, Kenya
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-11 | asked | Hank asks John and viewers what to do with misprinted business cards that say 'eco geek'. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th 00:02:33 |
| 2007-01-12 | result reported | John answers Hank's request with a list of comic uses for the misprinted business cards. (playful) | Brotherhood 2.0: January 12, 2007 00:00:14 |
| 2007-01-15 | thanks | Hank thanks viewers for the number and quality of misprinted business card utilization ideas. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th 00:03:02 |
| 2007-01-16 | result reported | John asks Hank to mail him about five of the misprinted EcoGeek business cards, getting his address from their parents. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 16, 2007 00:02:37 |
| 2007-01-17 | result reported | Hank takes up a commenter's suggestion for his misprinted business cards and builds a card house with them. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 17th 00:00:38 |
| 2007-03-22 | result reported | Hank shows the result of a commenter's suggestion for his misprinted business cards: a cube folded from them, now used in his EcoGeek intros. | March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards 00:00:42 |
| 2012-11-13 | reminder | Among the finds: his early work 'The Best New Years Resolution Ever: Happy New Year Streamers' and misprinted EcoGeek business cards from January 2007. | I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. 00:00:34 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — ask: Hank asks John or viewers what to do with business cards he had printed online for Detroit, which did not come out like his Kinko's sample. (hedged) — 00:01:43
- 2007-01-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 12, 2007 — John offers ideas for Hank's misprinted business cards: make Katherine a dress with a hole punch and dental floss, eat them while discussing Kenya, write tiny wedding thank-you notes, wallpaper his dollhouse. (playful) — 00:00:14
- 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — Hank thanks viewers for the number and quality of misprinted business card utilization ideas and says he will discuss them on Wednesday. — 00:03:02
- 2007-01-17 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 17th — Hank greets Maureen Johnson and E. Lockhart and wonders whether that Maureen is the one who told him to build a house out of his misprinted business cards; if so, he has a surprise for her. (playful, unsure) — 00:00:10
- 2007-01-17 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 17th — Hank: Taking up Maureen's suggestion from the comments to build a house out of his misprinted business cards, Hank, who didn't know how, researched card houses on the internet. — 00:00:38
- 2007-01-17 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 17th — Hank calls the finished first story an excellent misprinted business card utilization idea, since he now knows how to stack cards and hopes viewers do too; he then tries to add another story. — 00:02:05
- 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — Hank opens having combined a misprinted-business-card idea with putting stuff on his head, jokes about pants on his head, and says he will cover the cards and the book club. (playful) — 00:00:03
- 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — recommendation: Hank demonstrates the tutorial: six same-size cards bent into cups and joined make a sturdy cube; six more slid into the flaps give it flat faces. — 00:00:42
- 2007-12-03 · December 3rd: 10,000 Subscribers! and secret project — Hank shows his guitar, says he has been playing his new song, and holds up one of the misprinted business cards he still hasn't figured out what to do with. — 00:00:10
- 2022-04-22 · My Life is on My Walls — Hank: Going far back in Vlogbrothers history, Hank shows the misprinted business card cube from 2007. — 00:01:54