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Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th

2007-02-08 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

From Englewood, Florida, Hank tours the neighbourhood, describes a banjo concert for about 400 old people, and does a 'back of napkin' calculation of the chance that someone there died while he watched; he accepts John's survey challenge.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; nowhere private in the house, Hank sleeps on a sofa bed; begins a tour: Englewood, Florida

  • ★ Hank says it is very hard to vlog in this house: there is nowhere private, so he talks quietly from a corner of the living room where he sleeps on a sofa bed. (playful) — 00:00:11
  • ★★ Hank is in Englewood, Florida, and tours John round a normal 1950s-style Florida ranch-house neighbourhood with citrus, flowers, cacti and American flags. — 00:00:11

00:01:34 — More trees and the canal; an event where about 400 old people watch 30 old people play banjos; Charlotte County's high age

  • ★★ Someone (name unclear) took Hank to an event where about 400 old people watched about 30 old people play banjos badly: patriotic songs, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, military songs. (playful) — 00:01:34
  • ★★ Hank says Charlotte County actually has the highest age of any county in the country. — 00:01:34

00:02:19 — From babies to death: a back-of-napkin calculation of the chance someone at the event died while Hank watched (0.53%)

  • ★★ Having thought a lot about babies, the beginning of life, Hank found the event made him wonder whether any of the old people would die while he watched. (playful) — 00:02:19
  • ★ Hank says he loves 'B.O.N.' calculations, back of napkin. (playful) — 00:02:19 > «I love B.O.N. calculations. Back of napkin.»
  • ★★ Citing census data, Hank says the average age of death of a 70-year-old is 83. — 00:02:44
  • ★★★ Assuming an average age of 70 and about 400 people, Hank calculates half would be dead in 13 years (113,000 hours); 1,200 old-people hours give a 0.53% chance someone died within eyeshot. (playful) — 00:02:44

00:03:31 — Hank accepts John's challenge to answer his survey in 3:30; enjoyed John's children's book, may illustrate it; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank accepts John's challenge and will answer his survey; the 3-minute-30-second limit will be quite a barrier, but he will do his best. (playful) — 00:03:31 > «I accept your challenge and will answer my survey.»
  • ★★ Hank very much enjoyed John's children's book and is considering doing its illustrations himself. (playful) (hedged) — 00:03:31

Humor (significant)

  • Two cars pass Hank at the same moment on a normally empty street. — 00:00:52 > «Yeah, see, now there's not going to be any cars for another two or three hours.»
  • On the yard tour Hank shows a donkey planter with a cactus in it. — 00:00:52 > «This is a donkey with a cactus in it that miraculously survived Catherine throwing her calculus book at it.»
  • Hank computes a 0.53% chance that someone died within sight of him at the banjo event. — 00:02:44 > «While that's not a very big number, it is probably the biggest that number has ever been in my life.»
  • After the long death-probability calculation, Hank sums up. — 00:03:31 > «So, now you know how bored I am.»

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