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Our Grandfather

2011-12-12 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Philosophy & meaning · reflection essay

Lower-confidence wave

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

Hank, filming before flying to his grandfather the brothers' grandparent's funeral, reflects that a 92-year-old's death is by definition fair yet still feels unfair and makes him angry, then sets out how the Project for Awesome 2011 will work.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; video made on Sunday because Hank is flying to Birmingham for the brothers' grandparent's funeral; why make a video at all

  • ★★★ Hank says he made this video on Sunday because when it is posted he will probably be on a plane to Birmingham for the brothers' grandparent's funeral. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★ To people wondering why he is making a video when his grandfather just died, Hank says he doesn't hate making videos and has a lot on his mind. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:27 — the brothers' grandparent was very old and long sick; a fantastic long life, a great person; what the brothers owe him

  • ★★★ Hank says the brothers' grandparent was very old and had been sick for a very long time, after a fantastic long life of amazing things as a great person and asset to his community and family. — 00:00:27
  • ★★ Hank says the brothers owe the brothers' grandparent a lot, beyond creating their mom, which was important to their existence and their happiness. (playful) — 00:00:27

00:00:57 — Is death fair? Fair by definition and at 92, unfair for the young, still infuriating; life is a limited time span; the jellyfish that doesn't die

  • ★★★ Hank says the brothers' grandparent's death still feels unfair, though by the traditional definition death is the fairest thing there is: everyone who has lived dies, an equitable arrangement. — 00:00:57
  • ★★ Hank says it is not fair when young people die, like a 16-year-old girl dying of cancer, but when a 92-year-old dies, that is fair, more than fair. — 00:00:57
  • ★★ Hank says the brothers' grandparent had about 20 years more life than the average person. — 00:01:26
  • ★★★ It still makes Hank very angry, but life is just a limited time span in which we get to do things; it always ends, and everything that lives dies. — 00:01:26
  • ★★ Noting the exception of the jellyfish that doesn't die, Hank says he would rather be a mortal person than a jellyfish, even one that lives forever. (playful) — 00:01:26

00:01:50 — Stages of grief: stage two, plus potato chips and hours of QI; QI recommended

  • ★★ Hank looked up the stages of grief and finds himself in stage two; he is also in the 'stage' of eating lots of potato chips and watching QI for hours. (playful) — 00:01:50
  • ★★ Hank says QI, which he only discovered a few months ago, is the best, and its huge backlog means he can watch it all day. — 00:01:50

00:02:19 — Project for Awesome 2011: purpose, curating, projectforawesome.com, start at noon December 17th, charity voting, fund over $10,000, Hank's video on Saturday; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says nothing is changing with the Project for Awesome: it has always used the online video community, and Nerdfighteria specifically, to make great content for non-profits and to promote and curate the best videos. — 00:02:19 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Hank says curating means not promoting your own or friends' videos but finding the best P4A videos and getting them in front of as many people as possible. — 00:02:19 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Videos will be submitted at projectforawesome.com, not fully working until P4A begins at noon on December 17th; people, Hank included, are already making their P4A videos. — 00:02:58 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Viewers will be able to vote for the charities in P4A videos; the most-voted charities get a piece of the money being raised for P4A, already over $10,000. — 00:03:27 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank's own Project for Awesome video will come on Saturday, not Friday, because that is when P4A is. — 00:03:27 · Project for Awesome

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