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Question Tuesday!

2009-05-20 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · conversation qa

John, short on time before LeakyCon, his Australia trip and edits on his book with David Levithan, rushes through Nerdfighter questions: a hand-sign workaround, why books have blank pages, his first job, This Is Not Tom and foreign covers.

What is said

00:00:00 — Question Tuesday intro: an hour to make it, LeakyCon then Australia, book edits; Spock or Kirk; hand-sign workaround

  • ★★ John says he must prepare for LeakyCon, then leave for Australia right after, and has a ton of work on edits of the book he is writing with David Levithan. — 00:00:00 · LeakyCon, Australia, David Levithan
  • ★ John says he has only about an hour to make the video, so he will do it 'Brotherhood 2.0 style' with poorer edits and champagne poppers. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ Asked about the hand sign, John says those who can't make it can use a workaround invented by the brothers' 'secret niece and nephew' in Australia, whom he'll meet soon. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighter gang sign, secret sibling, Australia

00:00:50 — Conjoined twins' social security numbers; blank pages at the back of Looking for Alaska

  • ★ John says each conjoined twin gets his or her own social security number. — 00:00:50
  • ★★ John explains the blank pages at the back of the Looking for Alaska hardcover: a printed book's page count must be a multiple of eight, so extra pages are added. — 00:00:50 · Looking for Alaska

00:01:19 — The wicker basket; John's first job in a warehouse

  • ★★ John says his first job was loading semi-trucks with boxes of stereo equipment in a warehouse, like Tetris in 110-degree heat with 30-pound pieces. (playful) — 00:01:19

00:01:49 — This Is Not Tom, different covers per country, digits of pi

  • ★★ John says his ongoing story This Is Not Tom is already free online each week and will not be published as a book. — 00:01:49
  • ★ John says books sometimes have different covers in different countries because each country's publisher designs its own. — 00:01:49

Humor (significant)

  • Asked for what's in the basket behind him, John says it holds only the job of separating his books on Islam from those on Christianity. — 00:01:19 > «No offense, but the wicker basket is doing a fantastic job. Why would I replace it with a human being?»
  • John describes his first job loading stereo boxes into semi-trucks. — 00:01:19 > «It was actually exactly like Tetris, except you had to play in 110 degree heat and all the Tetris pieces weighed 30 pounds.»
  • Asked whether Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy has magical powers, John asks Willy, who disappears. — 00:02:15 > «Oh my god, how did he do that?»

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