I have a tumblr called thethirdoption (links to my other tumblrs and the name explanation there). My main areas of expertise are metaphysics and meta- just about everything, which may explain why MC Escher has been my favorite artist (and MC) (that was a joke) (just the MC part was a joke) (yes I overuse parentheses) since I was a little kid.

For the period of time in middle school when I was really into classical music, Bach was my favorite composer, because of the intricacies and complexities as well as the speed. So you might say this has been a long time coming.

I have recently taken up a thoroughly right-brained point of view for just about everything, including typically left-brained pursuits.

You might say I’m the red-headed stepchild of this bunch.

That it may be more productive and less time consuming to attempt to prove that it is impossible to solve the MU puzzle than to attempt to solve it.

Just to be careful, I’m putting the rest below the fold.

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The tumblr staff blog put us on their Tumblr Tuesday!

Really, it’s such an honor.

Hello to all our new followers, and thank you to everyone who was already following us, and BIG thank yous to the Tumblr staff!

I have a draft saved for this week, I’ll go post it now.

When I was in 4th grade, the teacher had us read Stone Soup, and then we made stone soup.

The story goes like this: A poor beggar bets this man that he can make a delicious soup using only a stone. Then the beggar says something like, “You know, this soup would taste just a bit better with some potatoes.” so the man rushes off to get potatoes to put into the boiling water with the stone. And the beggar keeps asking for one more vegetable, and another, and another, until finally the guy is making vegetable soup with a stone in it.

My point, and I do have one, is that the stone isn’t the important bit. It’s the things that are added on to it after which are important, even though the hapless man is conned into thinking the stone is the important bit, the add-ons are just to make it work a little bit better.

Which is exactly how the tortoise cons Achilles. The stone is (A) (B) and (Z).