you smell like when i go poop
I got some sleep last night, but I have woken up to a world of nerd problems that are not making me really super happy. The NitroVideo site has this really neat group of PERL scripts that build their pages, but a very unnormalized, cantankerous MySQL database that is making my life not awesome. At the day job a .NET/SQL promotion went sorta awry. After further inspection it turns out the data issue was there previously, but it never looks good on you the developer when you just did a promotion prior to the fuck up.
I had a near foot-in-mouth issue this morning. I thought I was being observant, but…well, let me step back a minute. In my master bedroom, the something to spray when someone drops a deuce is this body spray that sits in a little bath and body works basket on the potty. I’m very familiar with this scent. A co-worker walked by, I smelled that same scent…what followed was absolute brilliance and most likely an indicator that I am still not caught up on sleep.
“Ahh Mountain Pass, right?”
“Why yes, what an astute nose you have! Does your wife wear this too?”
“No, it’s what I spray whenever I take a big du…I mean yes.”
So I nearly told this woman that she smells like when I go poop. I am smooth.
Don’t forget to go listen to my new stupid song, Threatmantic at RedFizz and vote for it…it doesn’t smell like Mountain Pass, I promise.
- 1929 Johnson Smith Catalogue – one day episodes of All in the Family will look like this to us all.
- 10 Worst Chips of All Time
Five Questions from Snackie’s meme…
- Is it better to have loved and lost OR to never have loved at all? Why?
I don’t watch that show, aren’t there like polar bears from space on the island or something? - Which blogger would you most like to swap lives with for a day….. and why?
I’ll say Fairweather Zealot or Apertome so that I could take a beautiful picture of my family. I take some OK photos, but Marty and Michael are really talented. - What exactly IS a FuriousBall?
furiousBall is a term my wife and I found on a pregnancy website when we were pregnant with our first child. “…right now your child is a furious ball of dividing cells…” Our son is a kinetic ball of awesomeness, so the name was appropriate to say the least. - What is the greatest song in your world?
Right now, I’m listening to Death Cab for Cutie’s We Laugh Indoors and it’s pretty darn wonderful in my world right now. - Where would you like to live most in this world, not including your current location?
Somewhere besides New Jersey? Are you kidding…well Hawaii, my wife loves it there, I’ve never been. But the laid back atmosphere would be a nice change. Life does so much to tense our neck and shoulders, I think some beauty might loosen these knots.
If you would like to participate in this meme…
- Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
- I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
- You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
- You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
- When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Haha, smooth indeed … those tech issues don’t sound like fun. I’m a bit surprised that the Perl scripts are OK and it’s the MySQL database that’s “cantankerous” (I’m going to have to use that descriptor for some things here). It’s a lot easier to write impossible Perl code.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
The great FuriousBall mystery solved. Yanno, if I read archives and such I could figure it out but I am definitely taking the easy way out! Thanks for playing!
April 13th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
You are the epitome of smooth. *choke*
Your work life sounds like my work life right now.
Finding out the why behind FuriousBall is very cool.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
The furiousBall explanation is very cool. That picture of the misspelled word painted on the road made me laugh; the worst chips list made me throw up in my mouth a little.
The Mountain Pass story made me snort.
Your song sounds awesome, dude.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
apertome – I agree, but you should see this database…large tables without indexing, no primary keys, duplicated data, cats making love to dogs…it’s just not right
Hilly – no problemo
Chris – I’m the epitome of something that’s for sure
mamatulip – that’s what i bring to the table…coolness, laughter, and a little nausea
April 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
I’m glad to have learned that you’re not as angry as your name sounds. Have a good weekend Furious.
April 14th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Smell is supposedly the sense that is most closely linked to memory. So now you’ll probably think about going poo every time you see that woman.
I hate denormalized databases.
April 14th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I actually read somewhere (in your archives somewhere when I was first stalking…I mean reading you) what furious ball was all about. I loved it!
That smell thing kills me. I agree somewhat with Diesel in that smell does seem to be linked to memory. I also think certain songs are linked very strongly to certain memories for me.
April 14th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Yes, Furious, you are the epitome of smooth. Quite the ladies’ man, no question.
I have discovered that Jo Malone Red Roses cologne is great to spray when the litterbox, although cleaned, still smells sub-par. At $90/bottle, it really needs to earn its keep.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
You have no ideas the hours of sleep I’ve lost wondering about the whole “furiousball” thing. And all of my speculations were wrong, wrong, wrong.
At least I don’t smell like when you go poo.
April 15th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I generally find it a good idea not to inform people that they remind me of my bathroom trips, even when they deserve it. People usually don’t react quite well to such things.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Thanks for the compliment – glad you’ve liked them. We still owe you a cover shot for your next album, btw…
And sure, I’ll take some quirky questions, if you’ve got the time.
April 16th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
corky – it’s true, I’m more of the busy kind of furious rather than the give anyone the stink eye kind of furious
Diesel – she’s probably denormalized too
tori – so if I wrote a smelly song it would be so infectious record companies would just be balling up hundreds and chucking them at me?
heart in SF – i haven’t always been this cool unfortunately
Jocelyn – whenever a music critic pans my work i tell them it’s a reference to a spiked ball gag for music critics
Dorky Dad – so telling a manager during the meeting this morning that the agenda flowed “like a big piss after drinking a shitload of lemonade”…that was bad?
Marty – questions are on there way. I’ve put weight back on, I must become beautiful again…well I must get skinny again…where’s a stomach virus when you need one?
June 13th, 2007 at 9:34 am
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