{"id":100,"date":"2004-03-31T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2006-06-27T23:36:50","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T03:36:50","slug":"stupid-things-ive-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Stupid things I’ve done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stupid things I’ve done<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently, Ted Rall wrote a book that chronicled some of the worst things that people have done. I wanted to touch on a related subject: the stupid things people (namely, me) have done.<\/p>\n

I was in middle school in Yukon, Oklahoma. I’m not sure if it was 7th or 8th grade, because those years were all of a blur. We were in the gifted and talented class, and there was an Apple II in the room. Someone had created a simple text adventure in BASIC, and I modified some of the lines to say some inappropriate things, mostly sex-related. Sex was a big motivator for me around that time (puberty kinda gets you thinking about it), and I thought it’d be funny to mess around with this other student’s program.<\/p>\n

I was caught, sentenced for two days detention, and had to apologize to my gifted and talented teacher. I remember breaking down on the phone trying to talk to her and realizing just what an idiot I was, messing with someone else’s stuff. The thing that kills me now is that I really didn’t have a good reason to screw up this guy’s program. He was a friend; I had no grudge against him. I just was…selfish.<\/p>\n

I think that’s the defining factor for most of our stupidities in life. I’ve been selfish and stupid many times since then, and I still hate it in myself. I know that Ayn Rand preached about the virtue of selfishness, but there doesn’t seem to be much virtue in being stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stupid things I’ve done Recently, Ted Rall wrote a book that chronicled some of the worst things that people have done. I wanted to touch on a related subject: the stupid things people (namely, me) have done. I was in middle school in Yukon, Oklahoma. I’m not sure if it was 7th or 8th grade, … <\/p>\n

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