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Brotherhood 2.0: January 17th

2007-01-17 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:06 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Explainer · tags: community lore

Still sick, Hank takes up a commenter's suggestion for his misprinted business cards and demonstrates how to build a house of cards 'the awesome way', the way he found professional card stackers do it.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; hi to Maureen Johnson and E. Lockhart, and whether that Maureen suggested the card house; two hours arguing online with a libertarian friend about nuclear plant regulation

  • ★★ Hank greets Maureen Johnson and E. Lockhart and wonders whether that Maureen is the one who told him to build a house out of his misprinted business cards; if so, he has a surprise for her. (playful, unsure) — 00:00:10 · Maureen Johnson
  • ★ Hank spent two hours the previous night talking online with a libertarian high-school friend, who says nuclear power plants should not be regulated; Hank doesn't know what happened to him. — 00:00:10

00:00:38 — Fifteen minutes of nose-blowing; Maureen's card-house suggestion for the misprinted business cards; researching how professional card stackers build

  • ★ Hank, still sick, says he blew his nose for 15 straight minutes the night before, joking that he turned six ounces of toilet paper into two pounds of goo. (playful) — 00:00:38
  • ★★★ Taking up Maureen's suggestion from the comments to build a house out of his misprinted business cards, Hank, who didn't know how, researched card houses on the internet. — 00:00:38
  • ★★ Hank says the basic card house, stacked upward, is not the best way to build one; he found how professional card stackers do it and will teach it. — 00:00:38

00:01:32 — Demonstration: T-shaped supports, leaning cards, a roof for the first story; the jammy-pants aside; an excellent utilization idea; trying to add another story

  • ★★★ Hank demonstrates 'the awesome way': build a T, lean cards on each other so they stabilise one another, then add a roof to support further stories. — 00:01:32
  • ★★ Hank calls the finished first story an excellent misprinted business card utilization idea, since he now knows how to stack cards and hopes viewers do too; he then tries to add another story. — 00:02:05

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E. Lockhart · Maureen Johnson

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