{"id":13854,"date":"2014-10-13T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:09:35","slug":"better-than-the-heinlein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/better-than-the-heinlein\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than the Heinlein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert A. Heinlein <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/man-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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<p>(See how I scored <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/man-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>However, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peekinthewell.net\/blog\/states-with-immature-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new gauge in town<\/a>, and I like it a tad better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Can you change oil. Tie knots. Build furniture. Cut grass. Drive a moving van. Rent a moving van. Build a suite of software regression tests. And, how do you react if your girlfriend said you remind her of the famous actor, [blank]. John Wayne. Clark Gable. Leonardo DiCaprio. Gary Cooper. Hugh Grant. Clint Eastwood. Tyrone Power. Russell Brand. Errol Flynn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy cats, I can do all that stuff, especially the software regression test suites.  And if my beautiful wife says I remind her of Cary Grant, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/going-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m working on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert A. Heinlein said: 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13856,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions\/13856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}