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Book Towers for Miles

2015-08-21 · announcement · Hank, John, Katherine Green · 3:29 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Announcements · tags: recurring series, community lore, self promotion, self correction, guest or collab, punishment or challenge

Hank answers John's hair campaign, reports almost 900 book tower entries and announces the tallest, most stylish and honourable-mention winners, and corrects the NerdCon: Stories guest list.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — No time yet to analyse the Census; Hank's hair was winning until John's 'negative campaign'

  • ★★ Hank says he hasn't had time to analyse the whole Census yet but will, and is excited to. — 00:00:01
  • ★★ Hank says his hair was winning the Census hair question handily every day until John's 'unnecessarily negative campaign', and is now losing. (playful) — 00:00:07
  • ★★ Hank says it doesn't matter, but if his hair loses it will be an indictment of the entire process of democracy. (joke) — 00:00:19

00:00:35 — Book tower results: almost 900 entries, the safety rule, tallest and most stylish winners, two honourable mentions including Nerdcrafteria

  • ★★★ Hank reports almost 900 book towers were sent to hankandjohn@gmail.com, all beautiful, and thanks everyone who made one. — 00:00:40
  • ★ Hank is sad there can only be ten winners, but that's the rule he made up. — 00:00:59
  • ★★ Hank says many winners appear to have broken the rule against doing anything dangerous, likely standing on a ladder's 'This is not a step', but gives them the benefit of the doubt. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:08
  • ★★★ Hank announces the tallest-tower winners, led by a 483 cm tower said to touch no wall, then four more entries, adding one extra because two were very close. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Choosing the most stylish was hard and subjective; winners include a Nerdfighter sign and DFTBA, a Christmas tree of books, an arched tower of twists, a rocket, and a recreation of Minas Tirith (one of several). — 00:01:47 · DFTBA
  • ★★ Two honourable mentions: one for engineering, a three-legged tower that shouldn't work, and one for the Nerdcrafteria Minecraft server, where over 30 people built a Minecraft book tower for days. — 00:02:14

00:02:42 — NerdCon: Stories: Cassandra Clare correction and the guest list

  • ★★ Hank corrects himself: he recently said Cassandra Clare would be at NerdCon: Stories, but she won't be; he apologises. — 00:02:43

    “I said Cassandra Clare was gonna be there. She's not. I was wrong.”

  • ★★ Hank lists other NerdCon: Stories guests: Holly Black, Mara Wilson, M.T. Anderson, the Welcome to Night Vale folks, Nalo Hopkinson, Jacqueline Woodson, Rainbow Rowell, John Scalzi, Stephanie Perkins, Pat Rothfuss, Hank and John. — 00:02:51 · Hank Green, John Green

00:03:07 — Off to an airplane with Katherine (Snapchat teasing) and John; sign-off

  • ★ Hank sets off to get on an airplane with Katherine, teasing her that she's never on Vlogbrothers but always on Snapchat; John appears for the sign-off. (playful) — 00:03:08 · Katherine Green, Vlogbrothers

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Mentioned

Central: NerdCon: Stories

Also: People: Cassandra Clare · Holly Black · Jacqueline Woodson · John Scalzi · Katherine Green · M. T. Anderson · Mara Wilson · Nalo Hopkinson · Patrick Rothfuss · Rainbow Rowell · Stephanie Perkins

Projects: Nerdcrafteria · Nerdfighteria Census

Works: Minecraft · Welcome to Night Vale

Organizations: Snapchat

Terms: DFTBA

Concepts: democracy

Characters: Minas Tirith

Also centred on NerdCon: Stories: Announcing NerdCon: Stories · Post-NerdCon Haze · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) · Let's Talk about Failure

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