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https://solveulator.netlify.app/ I built a free BTME solving tool called Solveulator 2.0 for organizing Posey’s poem, interview clues, memoir terrain, and candidate locations in one place. It has four main sections: Candidate Tracker A ranked board of possible locations, each scored against the poem’s fingerprint: water, bend/Hole, ursa, bride, gates, granite arcs, and “secrets of the past.” Each candidate also has hard constraints like dogs allowed, no fee, legal access, 2WD access, no special equipment, and no restricted recovery. If a candidate fails a hard constraint, it moves to quarantine. Map View All candidates are mapped. Marker color reflects solution strength, and clicking a pin jumps to that candidate’s card. Hovering over a pin gives a quick description. Clue Analysis The poem is broken down line by line using six lenses: literal, geographic, metaphorical, symbolic, historical, and directional. It also includes relevant Posey comments from interviews. Book Terrain A check...

When Rabbit Holes Work: The Arcturus Project and the Value of Disciplined Speculation By Solo Amerigo June 7, 2026 Chicago, Illinois. May 27, 1933. 9:15 p.m. The lights of the Chicago World’s Fair suddenly sprang to life. The crowd let out a collective gasp of amazement. Light harvested from the star Arcturus had turned on the lights that fateful Chicago night at exactly 9:15 p.m. on May 27, 1933, to open the Century of Progress World’s Fair. The idea sprang from the brain of Edwin Brandt Frost, the second director of Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. To Frost, the symbolism was irresistible. The harvested light had begun its journey from Arcturus forty years earlier, around the time Chicago celebrated its first World’s Fair, the 1893 Columbian Exposition . What appeared to be a simple lighting ceremony became a demonstration of astronomy, engineering, imagination, and human ingenuity, all working in harmony. From a Lions Share perspective, Edwin Frost was an i...