{"id":121,"date":"2002-08-26T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2002-08-26T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/too_stupid_to_live"},"modified":"2002-08-26T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2002-08-26T23:02:10","slug":"too_stupid_to_live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/08\/too_stupid_to_live.html","title":{"rendered":"Too Stupid to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone tried to cook a roast and set the dial to &#8220;Broil&#8221; instead of &#8220;Bake&#8221;?  Can we get a show of hands?<\/p>\n<p>Just me, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about the roast is <em>not<\/em> that it turned into a blackened lump of charcoal, but that it turned into a blackened lump of charcoal shaped something like a giant human heart.  It looked like something out of <cite>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/cite>.  Anyway, my house still smells like burnt meat.  I like to think it&#8217;s a musky, masculine smell, but really who am I kidding?<\/p>\n<p>And on the same day as the Roast from the Temple of Doom, Eric and I got our butts kicked on Warcraft III twice in a row.  Get this:  we lost to a couple of guys who built nothing but Chimerae.  And we didn&#8217;t bother attacking them while they were building up, and we had no air defense.  Fer cryin&#8217; out loud.  I&#8217;m trying to think of an analogous kind of loss in another game.  It&#8217;s like&#8230; I dunno, losing to someone who manages to &#8220;Shoot the Moon&#8221; in Hearts.  But it&#8217;s worse than that, because on rare occasions Shooting the Moon can be a pretty good strategy.  The Chimera strategy is just plain silly.  It only works when you play&#8230; well, people like us, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Well, enough self-flagellation.  I need a better self-image.  Maybe like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozillazine.org\/weblogs\/hyatt\/2002_07_14_mozillian_archive.html#85252157\" title=\"I know, I know, he's joking\">this guy&#8217;s<\/a>!  Of course pride goeth before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozillazine.org\/weblogs\/hyatt\/2002_07_14_mozillian_archive.html#85256161\" title=\"They had lost all they had, except their loin cloth, and still the robbers were not satisfied, but ordered them to dance.\">fall<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looked like something out of <cite>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}