{"id":131,"date":"2005-09-09T07:48:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2005-09-09T07:52:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T14:52:48","slug":"human-being-or-insect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Human Being or Insect?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the weekend just a few hours away, I feel the need to lighten up a bit. A meme might be fun. Lynn over at Reflections in d minor<\/a> said she’d like to see a lot of people do the Heinlein human being or insect <\/em>meme dreamt up by Eric. <\/a>
\n(She was tagged by John L of Texas Best Grok<\/a>.) Glad to oblige. <\/p>\n

Instructions: Of the items listed in the following quote from Robert Heinlein’s “Time Enough For Love” identify all those that you have done.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  • change a diaper – limited experience as I do not have children, but I did spend a summer working as a mother’s helper; I was in my teens and that was before pampers and pull-ups!<\/li>\n
  • plan an invasion<\/li>\n
  • butcher a hog<\/li>\n
  • conn a ship – yes, if sailboats and rowboats are ships<\/li>\n
  • design a building – yes, if building a city out of blocks counts – we even ran electricity – I was 7<\/li>\n
  • write a sonnet – albeit unpublishable<\/li>\n
  • balance accounts – I’ll assume that we’re talking about financial accounts, and I do balance those, but I also must balance the accounts as in stories I am told when doing research…two people see the same thing and tell very different tales\n<\/li>\n
  • build a wall – both figurative and literal<\/li>\n
  • set a bone<\/li>\n
  • comfort the dying – many times<\/li>\n
  • take orders – yes, but I’m not very good at it<\/li>\n
  • give orders – too often, in the minds of some<\/li>\n
  • cooperate – can do<\/li>\n
  • act alone – usually<\/li>\n
  • solve equations – I was good at algebra; geometry was another story<\/li>\n
  • analyze a new problem – incessantly<\/li>\n
  • pitch manure – cows and horses, lots of times, lots of places<\/li>\n
  • program a computer – PCs and mainframes; I was a geek in the 1970s<\/li>\n
  • cook a tasty meal – friends will vouch for me<\/li>\n
  • fight efficiently – I don’t like to fight, but I’m nothing if not efficient<\/li>\n
  • die gallantly<\/li>\n

    Of the four things I’ve never done, you can be sure that butchering a hog is something I will never ever do, setting a bone could happen, planning an invasion is not something I would put past me, and as for a gallant death only time will tell.<\/p>\n

    Because I was not “officially” tagged, I’ll not tag you, but feel free to take it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With the weekend just a few hours away, I feel the need to lighten up a bit. A meme might be fun. Lynn over at Reflections in d minor said she’d like to see a lot of people do the Heinlein human being or insect meme dreamt up by Eric. (She was tagged by John … Continue reading “Human Being or Insect?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-n-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}