Frequently Asked Questions

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(If you have questions to ask, leave them in comments below. Will probably delete comments when answering the questions though. Keeping things organized and stuff. )

Q: Who are John and Hank?
A: John is the Printz Award-winning author of Looking for Alaska, An abundance of Katherines and the NYT Best Seller Paper Towns. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his lovely wife Sarah and his dog Willy. His brother Hank is the brain behind Ecogeek, the web's largest environmental technology blog. Hank lives with his wife, cat and XBox 360 in Missoula, Montana.

Q: What is Brotherhood 2.0?
A: After noticing that their relationship had for years consisted primarily of emails and instant messages, John and Hank swore off all textual communication with each other for 2007. Instead, they made public video blogs back and forth every weekday for the entire year. (They got holidays off.)

Q: What’s a Nerdfighter?
A: Hmm. Watch the videos from February 1st, February 17th, and July 25th. (If you don’t want to watch those videos, then you are probably not a Nerdfighter.)

Q. In your introductory animation, it says “365 Days of Communcation.” Can you not spell or something?
A. We can spell just fine, thanks. The I was left out to remind our viewers: THERE IS NO I IN BROTHERHOOD!

Q. That’s stupid.
A. Okay, we couldn’t make the animation work with the correct spelling. It kept breaking.

Q. The intro says that you were going to have “365 Days” of textless communcation, but you didn't post on weekends? What gives?
A. We get a lot of questions about semantics. It’s almost like all our fans are librarians and editors or something. Anyway, you do not need to post a video blog in order to have textless communication.

Q. Why does John call his wife the Yeti?
A. Watch the video from January 2nd.

Q. What’s the song from the B2.0 intro?
A. It’s Death Cab for Cutie’s “Brothers on a Hotel Bed.”

Q. What is all this crap about In Your Pants?
A. It’s complicated. But it all started with our friend Maureen Johnson. (See January 23rd video)

Q. What equipment do you use?
A. Hank and John used identical Canon Elura 100 camcorders, which their parents bought them on Christmas Eve 2006. They now both use Canon HV30s, the best pro-am Mini-DV camcorder in existence. Hank also owns a Canon WD-H43 Wide Angle lens. The brothers edited their videos in iMovie, but have since switched to Final Cut Express.

Q. What do your parents think about this?
A. “The parents are bemused but supportive.”

Q. What is the "Evil Baby Orphanage" I keep hearing about?
A. This idea came out of the moral dilemma of whether it is ok to kill baby Hitler, who has technically done nothing wrong. Instead, Nerdfighters propose that we time-travel back to take them as babies to a remote location where they are brought up in a nurturing environment and can therefore do no harm.

Q. What does "jokes" or "so jokes" mean?
A. It started in the July 25 video. It basically is replacing cool with jokes which is totally so jokes.

Q. What does DFTBA mean?
A. DFTBA stands for Don't Forget To Be Awesome something we should never forget but nerdfighters have found some other very interesting things is stand for too which Hank expressed in an awesome video.

Q. How do I get in touch with the webmasters or "ningmasters"
A. You can email us at: Ningmasters@gmail.com

Q. A lot of people have been asking "WHO THE EFF IS HANK?!"
A. To be honest we just don't know. We have set up a committee to find out and we'll get back to you on that.