Solve Equations:
You, sir, are a mathmatical wizzard (unless, of course, you experienced failure in your calculations).
Want to enter the big league? Try performing the same calculations during a traffic jam going through one of many construction sites on the Long Island expressway.
Super sekrit message: hope you have a cup or some suitable vessle on board...
Been there, done that.

Mmmm....LIE construction.....Right there with you!

We always carry one of those little plastic mini-potties and there is almost invariably violent disagreement between self and the Missus over when it is time to accept the ultimate humiliation of pulling over and having the child use it, as thousands of cars stream by. My usual position is, "Never!" Hers is generally, "Would you please stop acting like such a baby?"

design a building. Does that include a doghouse? Not that I have, mind you, but that's not so difficult, such as designing the Empire State Building.
Solve equations. 1 + 1 = um, give me a minute here.

Did I read that correctly? Never read Heinlein? So I'm guessing not the late, posthumously recovered full version of Stranger in a Strange Land? I'll dig it out and loan it to you. Meanwhile, pick up Friday, one of the wittiest, most subtly pointed works on the human condition.* You'll even get the dates/passcodes joke.

Why Starship Troopers was made into a comic-novella film blanc, instead of Friday making the big screen, I will never know. Maybe Verhoeven never read it. But then I doubt he read Starship Troopers either.

Did the original Starship Troopers carry the premis that only those who served in the military could be citizens? I've been mulling that idea in light of all the "chickenhawk" nonsense that's been being thrown around of late. Feel free to make of it what you will.

Yes, that was Starship Troopers, though I can't remember what the benefits were for citizenship. What benefits would you confer? Would you offer alternate service for those not fit (due to something beyond their control, i.e. colorblind or flat-footed)?

PS You sidestepped the main question. Will you be picking up SIASL, or do you need to add a wish list? I'm sure Bill would send it in wrapping with pink hearts and black daggers.

Oh, it's not me. I was just musing on the concept floating about the moonbat caves recently that only the opinions of those with military experience have any value in terms of praising or criticizing military policy.

If that is the case, then logically only those with such experience should be allowed to vote, either on such policies directly in referendum form or on the election of officials to determine such policy. Also under such reasoning, only those with military experience should be qualified to hold such policy-making power. In other words, citizenship should be defined as conveying the right to take part in the political process, and only those with military experience are qualified for citizenship.

I gather that this is the system Heinlein had in mind in Starship Troopers - it bears a striking relationship to the Ancient Greek concept of citizenship, by the way. But somehow I sense that the moonbats would shriek bloody murder if you suggested that this is what they're really arguing for.

What would Heinlein do with those who couldn't make the cut? Was he a Darwinist in this regard? Or would he expect the State to take care of such people even while limiting their right to participate in it? (You have to remember that the only things I remember from the movie were the communal shower and Doogie Howzer.)

I don't remember the exact political dichotomization from Starship Troopers, but Heinlein struck me as someone who enjoyed operating in the background, pulling strings where necessary, but enjoying the predictable flailing of the "average" person/politician. I think, if it were left solely up the RAH, he wouldn't change a thing. You won't see that explicated by any narrator in his books, though a number of his favored characters relied on this ploy.