The Meme is a Harsh Mistress

The Heinlein meme is knocking on my door, thanks to TexasBestGrok, inspired by this list from "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" in Robert A. Heinlein's Time Enough for Love:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

For this meme, mark in bold those things that you can do:

• Change a diaper (If practice makes perfect, I am a virtuoso.)
• Plan an invasion (Other than a midnight requisition of leftover chocolate cake from the kitchen, um, no.)
• Butcher a hog (My favorite meat is post-butchered hog, but have you ever smelled a pig sty?)
• Conn a ship (I'll get back to you after I learn what "conn" means.)
• Design a building (I couldn't even design a sugarcube igloo.)
• Write a sonnet (Probably, but it wouldn't be poetry.)
• Balance accounts (Debits toward the file cabinet, credits toward the window.)
• Build a wall (with prefab, interlocking bricks? Why, yes!)
• Set a bone (which would require looking at the broken bone, not to mention handling it? No, mom, there was never any chance that I would make it to med school.)
• Comfort the dying (The most important skill I would like to have.)
• Take orders (Yes, dutifully.)
• Give orders (Yes, reluctantly...but decisively.)
• Cooperate (Yes, reliably.)
• Act alone (Yes, happily.)
• Solve equations (HP 12C at the ready, in reverse Polish notation.)
• Analyze a new problem (My talents are few, but this is the one that puts bread on the table.)
• Pitch manure (and peat moss, and top soil)
• Program a computer (Sorry. I am only a geek poseur.)
• Cook a tasty meal (Although my kids would say here: "Your mileage may vary.")
• Fight efficiently (Somehow I suspect that hundreds of hours of watching Buffy don't quite qualify as "training" for this.)
• Die gallantly (A worthy ambition indeed.)

If you are so inclined, have at it!

Comments

[Kathy]

"geek poseur"--I love it!

[JohnL]

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