Body by Victoria
Thinking better of it, I decided to remove an ill-conceived post from earlier this morning and replace it with this more thoughtful post about body odor. Is removing a post a horribly un-bloggy thing to do? It is, isn’t it.
Well, moving on. Have you ever gotten BO while showering? I showered this morning in my usual manner, that is, I started at the top <head> and worked my way down </head>. Weirdest thing, though, by the time I was done I noticed that my underarms stank. What’s more, I don’t remember them stinking when I first got into the shower.
I’ve gotten BO after showering before. Like, maybe I wander around for a while with a towel on, before applying deodorant, and eventually I start to stink. Fair enough. But I’ve never started stinking while still covered in soap and water. I do loofah with gusto, though, in part to thoroughly exfoliate and in part to scrape off the previous day’s shame, and I guess all that self-hatred–fueled vigor could cause some sweating.
Probably it’s just my body trying to give me some bad news, like, “Aaron, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’ve (we’ve?) got esophageal cancer and depending on which direction this tumor decides to grow we’ll either starve to death or slowly asphyxiate” and I’m just not good at interpreting my body’s signals.
Oh and I don’t have time to tame the Safari min-height beast so here’s a photo to keep the main page longer than the sidebar. It’s a leaf. I scanned it on this swell flatbed we’ve got at work.
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Comment by Slippers — March 2, 2005 @ 2:28 pm
Is that how you spell “odour” over there? Sheesh. You crazy Americans.
Your sweat isn’t supposed to smell until it’s at least a couple of minutes old. Sweat doesn’t smell. The yummy bacteria eating it does. Maybe you’ve just got a brain tumour making you think you’re smelling BO. Is that how you spell “tumour” over there? Sheesh. You crazy Americans.
I’m left intrigued as to what your deleted post was. And how it could have been any more ill-conceived than this one. And what Slippers is talking about.
Comment by Pierce — March 2, 2005 @ 3:29 pm
Ha! That’s funny, because every time I type your site into the address bar I get this instead. And then I’m like “oh, right, he’s British,” and I try again with like, an extra “e” or a “u” until the right site comes up.
And believe me, that BO was real. I even called my girlfriend in to confirm it. Definitely rank.
Comment by Feaverish — March 2, 2005 @ 4:10 pm
Actually, we spell distort as distort as well. But I’m not British. I’m Irish. But I didn’t broadcast the fact so I won’t knife you for saying it.
Distorte actually comes from “This Torte”, said by a stupid person, lit: “Dis Torte”. Torte as in torte. I have a problem with making up words. A big problem. It’s totally ghhisflubble.
Comment by Pierce — March 2, 2005 @ 4:23 pm
Thanks for foregoing the knifing this time ‘round. I had no idea you were Irish. And “Distorte” is a good name: short, easy to remember, etc. Choosing a name was like the hardest part of this site for me. You know, except for getting the freakin’ comments to work right. Arghhhh!!!!
Comment by Feaverish — March 2, 2005 @ 5:13 pm
Actually, what I posted on yer comments contained some arrow looking brackety deals. My question is, what’s the deal with them. Like this: . Your silly website took out the brackets and my words and just left the question mark at the end of my sentence. So the real question is: what’s up with your website deleting words and whatnot?
Comment by Slippers — March 3, 2005 @ 12:32 pm
Yeah. Once again it removed ye olde bracket/arrows. WTF, mate?
Comment by Slippers — March 3, 2005 @ 12:33 pm
Mmm yeah, Slippers (if that is your real name), it’ll take out any greater-than/less-than signs because it thinks they’re HTML. If you want to include something in brackets you have to enclose it in the code tags. Just replace the brackets in the following: [code]your brackety code here[/code] with the greater than/less than symbols.
Comment by Feaverish — March 3, 2005 @ 12:56 pm
Yeah yeah yeah, I knows all that. My question from my first post, is this: Why do those brackety-doos show up in your post as brackets, and not translate your text in-between into some internet magic link or something? For example, in the sentence beginning, “I showered this morning in my usual manner, that is…” there are those bracketish thingys.
Comment by Sloop — March 3, 2005 @ 2:50 pm
Right. See, when I put in the head tag, I enclosed it in the code tags, so it tells the web browser that I want the stuff in between the tags to appear as code, and to not be parsed as HTML like it normally would. And the whole head /head thing is a joke, because, like, normally you’d shower head-to-toe, but in geek-speek /head is the bottom of head. It’s just a bad joke.
Comment by Aaron Feaver — March 3, 2005 @ 3:10 pm
Geeky jokes always come back to bite you in the ass.
Comment by Pierce — March 3, 2005 @ 3:33 pm
Man, you don’t know the half of it. Try getting code, with brackets, to show up as code. Goodbye afternoon!
Comment by Feaverish — March 3, 2005 @ 5:02 pm
Bad joke? Understatement of the month! It took 13 posts to figure that fucker out.
Comment by Sloop — March 4, 2005 @ 12:19 am
Here’s an easier one:
Q:What do you call a fish with no eyes?
A: fsh
Comment by Feaverish — March 4, 2005 @ 7:57 am
Q:What’s a programmer’s favourite icecream?
A:Loop the Loop.
This probably means nothing to you but it’s something we have here.
Comment by Pierce — March 4, 2005 @ 8:11 am
Funny. But, yeah, we don’t have that here.
Comment by Aaron Feaver — March 4, 2005 @ 8:57 am