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Metric Sabbath

2008-08-15 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:33 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal update · tags: punishment or challenge, community lore, song or performance

Hank performs a viewer-suggested punishment by killing the spiders in his basement, then says his run of awesome days ended in a 'metric Sabbath' and he is now coming down and missing Terminus, with Yellowstone and a wedding ahead.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Punishment: Hank introduces the spiders in his basement as his 'Terminus friends', then kills them; explains the punishment was a viewer's suggestion and justifies killing the spiders

  • ★★★ Hank says the punishment he just did turned out worse than expected; someone suggested it, and since most people didn't want him punished at all, he chose it as easy and peculiar. — 00:00:43 · Punishment
  • ★ Hank says one of the spiders was still alive, giving him the willies; his heart is beating hard. (playful) — 00:00:43
  • ★★ Hank says there are many spiders in his basement, where he has to work, and he only kills them because they are a dangerous kind (comically: they eat you and your leg rots off). (playful) — 00:01:07

00:01:36 — Ten days of awesome and a 'metric Sabbath'; coming down after Terminus and New York; improvised 'I miss Terminus' song

  • ★★ Hank says the eight days of awesome from his last video became about ten, thanks to John's peanut-butter-face Georgia discussion and his wife being glad he was home. — 00:01:36 · Peanut Butter Face, Katherine Green, John Green

  • ★★ Hank calls his rest after the awesome days 'a sort of metric Sabbath': on the tenth day he rested. (playful) — 00:01:36 · metric Sabbath

    “a sort of metric Sabbath”

  • ★★★ Hank says that around day twelve he is coming down: he spent a lot of time thinking and writing about Terminus and New York, and part of him is crashing and missing Terminus. — 00:01:36 · New York City

00:02:33 — Pathetic but part of life; upcoming Yellowstone trip and a friends' wedding; the Nerdfighter T-shirt contest is in the works

  • ★ Hank admits missing Terminus is a little pathetic, but says that's part of life: every week can't be the awesomest week ever. (playful) — 00:02:33
  • ★★ Hank says he and Katherine will go to Yellowstone next week (week of 18 August 2008) and hopes to have Yellowstone footage to show. (hedged) — 00:02:33 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank says they will then witness the wedding of two more of his very good friends, since that's the kind of summer it is. — 00:02:33
  • ★★ Hank says many Nerdfighters at Terminus asked about the Nerdfighter T-shirt contest; it is in the works and hopefully a video about it will come soon. (hedged) — 00:02:33 · Nerdfighteria

00:03:14 — Self-deprecating wrap-up and sign-off

Humor (significant)

  • Hank answers viewers upset that he is killing spiders. — 00:01:07

    “I wouldn't do it if they weren't the kind that eat you and then your leg rots off.”

  • Hank voices a half-crushed spider taunting him. — 00:01:07

    “Four of my legs and both of my fangs are still perfectly active. Here I come!”

  • Hank rests after ten days of awesome, recasting the Genesis Sabbath in base ten. — 00:01:36

    “On the tenth day, he rested, and it was awesome.”

  • Hank sings an improvised lament about crashing after Terminus. — 00:02:05

    “I miss awesome girls and shiny beans and wizard rock and nerd fighting, oh I miss Terminus”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: metric Sabbath · Punishment · Terminus

Also: Georgia (country) · Katherine Green · nerdfighter · New York City · Peanut Butter Face · Wizard rock · Yellowstone National Park

Also centred on Terminus: Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016

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