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Aug 16, 2006 16:16

I came across this one in my travels on the information superhighway...

"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 ( Read more... )

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urthenrampage August 16 2006, 22:03:10 UTC
16/21 isnt bad, though, right?

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arkineux August 17 2006, 00:10:42 UTC
Bravo!

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kreinm2 August 17 2006, 02:25:19 UTC
Good quote, even though I hate him as an author. :P

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coderanger August 17 2006, 02:39:11 UTC
How can you hate Stranger in a Strange Land??? Clearly you just haven't read it enough times :P

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kreinm2 August 17 2006, 03:14:50 UTC
Clearly I haven't. Actually enjoyed the Stranger in a Strange Land, but (by and large) dislike his writing style...it's too... Heinlein... :-P

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coderanger August 17 2006, 02:40:14 UTC
Anyone up for teaching me how to butcher (is that a verb)?

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kreinm2 August 17 2006, 03:16:41 UTC
If by butcher, you mean chop and cut various meat products, stop on by Haven at some point. :)

If by butcher, you mean butchering code or people, just talk to some people at ARC... :P

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colossus716 August 17 2006, 03:36:30 UTC
Or stop on by Haven at some point..

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coderanger August 17 2006, 12:53:26 UTC
Its not the cutting of meat products thats the problem, its converting a farm animal in to said meat products.

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Yes... poppinjaye August 17 2006, 13:35:40 UTC
He's been one of my favorite authors since early high school. I've read most of his books at least once.

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