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How It Felt

2012-02-01 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · personal update

As the three-week 2012 Tour de Nerdfighting ends, John says it was like the internet made real, but it also went by too fast to really experience, so he records for their future selves what it was like and how it felt.

What is said

00:00:00 — The tour ends: like the internet became IRL, but too fast to experience; they hardly remember the 2008 tour

  • ★ John's description thanks everyone who came to the tour, the independent bookstores and theaters that hosted it, and the Nerdfighter who held the camera. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John says the Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks; last night they were signing in Seattle. — 00:00:01 · Tour de Nerdfighting, Seattle
  • ★★★ John says the three weeks were like the internet became IRL: fun, clever, crowded, good to be a nerd, with talk of Sherlock and Doctor Who and singing of songs about particle physics. — 00:00:01 · Doctor Who, Strange Charm
  • ★★★ Like the internet, the tour went by very fast, like pressing the down key on Tumblr; John says a problem with the internet is that things pass too fast to really experience them. — 00:00:30 · Tumblr
  • ★★ John, Hank and Katherine talked yesterday about how they hardly remember the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting, what it was like or how it felt. — 00:00:30 · Katherine Green, Tour de Nerdfighting

00:00:51 — 'For future us': montage of the tour with a crowd singing 'Five Hundred Miles'; 'Thank you for watching!'

  • ★★★ John tells Hank the video is for their future selves: this is what the tour was like and how it felt; a montage follows with a crowd singing 'Five Hundred Miles'. — 00:00:51

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