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2011-02-17 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Lower-confidence wave

2011 videos did not pass the QA gate (17 %); their analysis is shown but less reliable.

Sick in bed with a fever, Hank recounts a night of Lego-satellite dreams and cartoons, shares favourite threads from the new Your Pants forum, and announces Seattle and Portland shows next month.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank vlogs from bed with a sudden fever, and a night of recurring dreams about building a Lego satellite

  • ★★ Hank vlogs from bed: fine at 8 o'clock yesterday, by 9 he had a 101-degree fever, sore throat, sinus headache and skin that hurt to touch. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ The description says Hank will play $20 shows in Seattle and Portland with musical comedians Paul and Storm and Mike Phirman. — 00:00:00 · Seattle, Portland, Oregon
  • ★ Hank woke about 25 times from the same embarrassing dream of building a satellite from Lego pieces with an incompetent team. (playful) — 00:00:21

00:00:55 — Productive from bed with a computer; watching Tiny Toon Adventures; a cuddled stuffed animal

  • ★ With his computer in bed, Hank says one can be a productive citizen without leaving bed; he watched Tiny Toon Adventures, a show he loves. — 00:00:55

00:01:25 — Why is it a 'strike' in baseball when you miss the ball?

  • ★ Hank asks why missing the ball in baseball is called a strike, when striking someone means hitting them; it makes no sense. (playful) — 00:01:25

00:01:37 — Favourite threads on Your Pants: sciency mind-blowing, an Israeli-Palestinian joint thread, how people became Nerdfighters

  • ★★ Exploring Your Pants, Hank found some of his favourite threads in the history of all forums, such as one where sciency people blow minds, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:37 · Your Pants, doobly-doo
  • ★★ Hank describes a Your Pants thread whose Palestinian and Israeli members decided to collaborate and become one thread. — 00:01:49 · Your Pants
  • ★★ Hank likes a Your Pants thread where people tell how they became Nerdfighters: everyone finds the videos a different way. — 00:02:11 · Your Pants, Nerdfighteria

00:02:28 — We've been unfair to the giraffes

  • ★★ Hank feels the brothers have been unfair to the giraffes and thinks they can make it up to them. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:28 · giraffe, John Green

00:02:38 — Hank will be in Seattle or Portland next month; info in the description; back to bed and sign-off

  • ★★ Hank will be in Seattle or Portland next month, in March, date not yet known, with information to follow in the description. (hedged) — 00:02:38 · Seattle, Portland, Oregon

Humor (significant)

  • Hank's fever dream, repeated all night: building a satellite out of Lego pieces. — 00:00:28 > «with an incompetent team of jerks who didn’t know how to build a satellite.»
  • Hank puzzles over why missing the ball in baseball is called a strike. — 00:01:25 > «like if I strike you, you don’t say I struck you if I missed.»
  • Israeli and Palestinian forum members merged their threads on Your Pants. — 00:02:02 > «Middle East peace in Your Pants.»
  • Out of nowhere, Hank turns to the brothers' treatment of giraffes. — 00:02:28 > «Sometimes I feel like we’ve been unfair to the giraffes, John.»

Threads in this video

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