Allow Me To Introduce Myself And My 5 Year Long Obsession With Collecting My Own belly Button Fluff.
Greetings fellow Steemians
As I sat here and thought about what to write and wondered how I could sum myself up in a blog post I looked across and saw my belly button fluff (parts of the world call it lint but here I'll shall refer to it as fluff) box sitting on a roll of wrapping paper I still haven't put away since Christmas. So I decided rather than telling you some generic rubbish about who I am and what i do I thought telling you about my box of fluff would be more reveling. So this post will be one of many showing and describing to you he little things that I do and think that make me who I am. I guess in this case actions really do speak louder than words.
I started collecting my own belly button fluff 5 or 6 years ago. I don't exactly know why I started collecting it I just did. I think it started as a bit of an ironic tongue-in-cheek joke but as it started to slowly accumulate I thought I might as well carry on. I expect if you asked a lot of long time collectors why they collect the stuff they do they would probably tell you they couldn't remember. But I expect also that if you asked a 45 year old man why he collects cat toys he would tell you it started off as an ironic joke so who knows why I started to collect it. Anyway lets take a look at my haul of belly button fluff.
But Where Does It Come From?
As you can see there is fair amount of my own hair in with it. This is due to my stomach being quite hairy which I believe aids with the cultivation. The cultivation of belly button fluff has forever amazed me and I think actually this was probably the reason I started collecting it. There have actually been real life scientific studies into how and why it exists and people have actually won relatively prestigious prizes for it.
You can read more about the study here.
They even when to the effort of scanning it under an electron microscope.
The Electron Microscope Unit (EMU) at the University of Sydney kindly allowed Steve Manos to have access to their equipment so he could take these beautiful close-up pictures of Belly Button Fluff.
- The Curious Truth About Belly Button Fluff - BBC News
Now I guess you are wondering what kind of belly button did my fluff come from. Well I fall into the exact category described in DR Karls study. In fact I think I might be your stereotypical cultivator. Here we can actually see some being born. Like a star forming in a distant nebular. One could even say I'm a belly button fluff miner.
"Profuse amounts congregate, as if there's a party in my belly button. It replenishes itself every six hours." - Study participant
As you can see it comes in many colours but mainly in blue. Here had a go at grading it from dark blue to light grey. Sorry for the crappy picture I only had my phone at the time.
This is actually the first time that this has been let out of the box, figuratively and literally, and really the first time I've shared it with anybody. It's a small part of the total belly button fluff I've produced over the years. looking at what I have collected and what could have been collected I estimate it would be at least 20x this.
Well fellow Steemians. One last thing I would like to leave you with is my very own version of the Steemit Logo.
Pleased To Meet You All
