This is a a picture of a green wristband on my left hand. (Ooh, the fist picture ever on my weblog.)

I’ve been wearing this wristband since the Folsom Jazz Festival, which was on January 25. It’s part of a bet. Or in more legal terms, it’s a contest. Everyone has agreed to pitch in five dollars to buy a prize for the winner of the contest, aka the person who keeps the wristband on the longest. The winner can opt to take the cash option. There’s 8 or 9 people in the bet, and only 2 of them have been eliminated.

I don’t really need that money. I’m probably not going to win — one of my friends has an advantage since he doesn’t take showers all too often — but I’m doing it anyway. There’s no real reason. Some people might find this stupid; I find it fun/funny.

This is a round-about way of coming to my true topic of the definition of stupidity. It’s best to go to the root: stupid. Dictionary.com give this definition of stupid, or rather, definitions. It looks nice, but are they all relevant to my study? I’m going with my own definition. Stupidity is what goes against logic and reason.

Going back to my example, let’s see if my wristband is stupid. It seems to go against reason, as I stated. However, I say it’s for fun. Since it doesn’t cause harm to me, and is only a minor inconvenience, it isn’t stupid — it isn’t completely irrational, unless you think having fun is stupid. I wouldn’t call having fun stupid, because having fun is important to one’s mental health.

By the way, I’m not left-handed; I’m just posing for the photograph with my shiny new optical mouse.