I am nerdfighter, hear me roar...

My sister called one evening in October and asked me, “Are you are nerdfighter?” Before I could even answer, she proceeded to say, “You're a nerdfighter, I know it! I am going to send you a link. Go watch it now!” and hung up the phone. This was how I was introduced to Brotherhood 2.0.

If you are unfamiliar with the Hank and John Green’s Brotherhood 2.0 Project it is now available for you to experience, in it’s entirety, for yesterday the B2.0 project sadly came to its end. Which is why I decided to pay homage to it in these first posts to my little blog. It was an incredible project and a great ride.

Here is a brief synopsis and the rules.

Hank and John Green have decided not to communicate except through video blogs for an entire year. Here are the rules:

1. Every weekday (that isn’t a major holiday) either Hank or John will post a video addressed to each other but available to the public. (Sometimes, Hank and John will use private videos to communicate private and/or boring things, such as how to compress videos using imovie in a way that won’t piss off youtube.)

2. Hank and John will not directly communicate, under any circumstances, via any textual means. No email and no IMs and no text messages. (We’re doing B2.0 partly because over the last several years, living on opposite sides of the country and all, our relationship became almost exclusively textual.) Some phone calls are allowed.

3. If one of us should fail to update by 11:59 PM on the appointed date, a punishment will be meted out. We already seem to have agreed that the first such punishment would be having to sing The Proclaimers’ “500 Miles” on video.

4. Textual communication will also result in punishment. (See, for instance, the chin waxing.)

5. I think as a practical matter we have agreed that videos should never be over four minutes in length.

Now I am a self-professed dork, but after spending literally hours watching Hank and John’s youtube vlogs in 2007, I will have to say, I am a nerdfighter too. So I urge you, go forth and find your inner nerdfighter and experience the awesome for yourself.

Happy New Year!