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2011-02-16 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:10 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria, History & curiosities) · mode: Personal update · tags: community lore, self promotion

Sick in bed with a fever, Hank recounts a night of Lego-satellite dreams and cartoons, shares favourite threads from the new Your Pants forum, and announces Seattle and Portland shows next month.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Hank vlogs from bed with a sudden fever, and a night of recurring dreams about building a Lego satellite

  • ★★ Hank vlogs from bed: fine at 8 o'clock yesterday, by 9 he had a 101-degree fever, sore throat, sinus headache and skin that hurt to touch. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank woke about 25 times from the same embarrassing dream of building a satellite from Lego pieces with an incompetent team. (playful) — 00:00:21

00:00:55 — Productive from bed with a computer; watching Tiny Toon Adventures; a cuddled stuffed animal

  • ★ With his computer in bed, Hank says one can be a productive citizen without leaving bed; he watched Tiny Toon Adventures, a show he loves. — 00:00:55

00:01:25 — Why is it a 'strike' in baseball when you miss the ball?

  • ★ Hank asks why missing the ball in baseball is called a strike, when striking someone means hitting them; it makes no sense. (playful) — 00:01:25

00:01:37 — Favourite threads on Your Pants: sciency mind-blowing, an Israeli-Palestinian joint thread, how people became Nerdfighters

  • ★★ Exploring Your Pants, Hank found some of his favourite threads in the history of all forums, such as one where sciency people blow minds, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:37 · doobly-doo, in your pants
  • ★★ Hank describes a Your Pants thread whose Palestinian and Israeli members decided to collaborate and become one thread. — 00:01:49 · in your pants
  • ★★ Hank likes a Your Pants thread where people tell how they became Nerdfighters: everyone finds the videos a different way. — 00:02:11 · Nerdfighteria, in your pants

00:02:28 — We've been unfair to the giraffes

  • ★★ Hank feels the brothers have been unfair to the giraffes and thinks they can make it up to them. (playful) — 00:02:28 · John Green

00:02:38 — Hank will be in Seattle or Portland next month; info in the description; back to bed and sign-off

  • ★★ Hank will be in Seattle or Portland next month (March 2011), in March, date not yet known, with information to follow in the description. — 00:02:38

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says Hank will play $20 shows in Seattle and Portland with musical comedians Paul and Storm and Mike Phirman. — video description

Humor (significant)

  • Hank's fever dream, repeated all night: building a satellite out of Lego pieces. — 00:00:28

    “with an incompetent team of jerks who didn’t know how to build a satellite.”

  • Hank puzzles over why missing the ball in baseball is called a strike. — 00:01:25

    “like if I strike you, you don’t say I struck you if I missed.”

  • Israeli and Palestinian forum members merged their threads on Your Pants. — 00:02:02

    “Middle East peace in Your Pants.”

  • Out of nowhere, Hank turns to the brothers' treatment of giraffes. — 00:02:28

    “Sometimes I feel like we’ve been unfair to the giraffes, John.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: Your Pants

Also: Works: Tiny Toon Adventures

Terms: doobly-doo · in your pants (“Middle East peace in Your Pants”)

Concepts: baseball · giraffe

Places: Israel · Palestine · Portland, Oregon · Seattle

Characters: Babs Bunny · Buster Bunny · Dot Warner · Pinky · The Brain · Wakko Warner · Yakko Warner

Products: Lego

Only in the description or credits: Mike Phirman · NyQuil · Paul and Storm

Also centred on Your Pants: NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) · 200 People in Your Pants · Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War.

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