A beefy looking, shirtless, tattooed guy named Anthony(; on twitter sent out the following image:

I mention that he looks a bit like a bruiser because most of the stuff he tweets out is really sweet. For example, he tweeted out this picture that actually made me cry. So I like to think of him as Rocky: tough looking but with a heart of gold. I hope he has found his Adrian.

So okay, sweet guy. But I really don’t like images like this one. For one thing, I’m not big on the whole idea of intelligence. But more important, the image is meant to make some people feel stupid and some people feel smart. What to do? Well, I don’t have a heart of gold. So I tweeted out:

Get it? If you were smart you would! No. Actually, I was just rubbing their noses in the fact that ostentatious self-importance is not appealing. I doubt that many of the almost 700 people who retweeted it even knows what an orthogonal transformation is. But that says absolutely nothing about their value or intelligence, whatever that may be.

Afterword

Those “puzzles” are not consistent. The 2s and the 3s are okay. But if you performed the same transformation on the 7s, you would not get a triangle. You would get a figure that included a triangle, but that’s the most you could say. The 7s would also require a horizontal transformation. I’m sure that Kurt Godel would not have known what to make of that stupid image!