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#@$%#!!! From Maine

2009-09-16 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:24 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Everyday life) · mode: Personal update · tags: on location

Filming again on the iSight camera from a Maine hotel, Hank rages that he deleted the video he had made in Missoula, recalls teaching his three-year-old nephew that all things are ephemeral, and offers brain crack for a sleep-cycle alarm.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Bad news: the video made in Missoula is deleted; angry enough to deface the MacBook; filming on the iSight in a Maine hotel before a 4 a.m. departure

  • ★★ Playing up very bad news that he says affects only him, Hank shows what 'ruined' his life and says he is angry enough to deface his MacBook. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank says he deleted the video he had made for John in Missoula, so he is filming on the iSight camera at a Maine hotel before leaving at 4 a.m. — 00:00:40 · Missoula, Montana

00:01:02 — Apology for a second iSight video; nephew Jesse's popped balloon and the lesson that all things are ephemeral; wanting to throw the microwave out of the window

  • ★★ Hank says one iSight video can pass as a statement about his disconnect from normal life, but two is ridiculously unprofessional, and apologizes. (playful) — 00:01:02
  • ★★ Hank tells how his three-year-old nephew Jesse's balloon toy popped on a cactus, and Hank, who likes talking to toddlers that way, told him all things are ephemeral. (playful) — 00:01:02
  • ★ Hank says that when his own video vanished he wanted neither a lesson on ephemerality nor a cookie, but to throw the hotel microwave out of the window. (playful) — 00:01:48

00:02:14 — Brain crack: a device that wakes you at the right point in the sleep cycle; an alarm that sounds like cooing pigeons; sign-off

  • ★★ Brain crack: Hank wants a wristwatch or head clamp that tracks his sleep cycle and wakes him at the right moment, coming out of REM sleep. (hedged) — 00:02:14 · brain crack
  • ★ Hank also wants an alarm clock that wakes him with cooing pigeons instead of the 'meep' every alarm he has owned makes. (playful) — 00:02:44

Humor (significant)

  • Hank shows what ruined his life and how angry he is. — 00:00:00

    “Angry enough to deface my MacBook.”

  • Hank tells his three-year-old nephew, whose balloon popped, that all things are ephemeral. — 00:01:48

    “What he wants to hear is cookie.”

  • When his own video vanished, Hank wanted no lesson on ephemerality. — 00:01:48

    “I didn't even want a cookie. I wanted to throw that microwave oven right there out of the window of the hotel room.”

  • Why is it so hard to have a pleasant noise wake you up? — 00:02:44

    “Every alarm clock I've ever had in my life makes this noise. Meep, meep, meep, meep, meep.”

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Mentioned

brain crack · iSight · Jesse · MacBook · Maine · Missoula, Montana · Rapid eye movement sleep · Sleep cycle

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