CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
When we're asked, as chronologicians, to correct a temporal anomaly, we often have to explain that it's not as easy as resetting a clock, for there are mighty forces out there. From NY School of Agriculture at Alfred University's 1942 yearbook.
Temporal anomaly investigator Michael Pereckas shares this photo from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Of course the clock faces on the near tower don't agree, when the far tower broadcasts non-time in four directions. What we see here is a mechanical attempt to average out temporal incertitude and arrive at equilibriality.
Our clock arrived with months insteads of numbers, too. When we tried to return it, they said the 30-day window had already passed. When we set the alarm, we didn't wake up until August. From The Free Will Baptist, 1965.
In business proceedings, if there are no seconds then a motion fails. In the fabric of time/space, if there are no seconds, then is our own movement suspended? Photo courtesy of Danko8321.
"There will be a slight timing error in the taped time signals" (A Compilation of Moored Wind and Current Meter Observations, 1970) Photo courtesy of Jürg Stuker.
Though it's commonly suspected that Humpty Dumpty was pushed, he could have been accidentally tapped by the pendulum of a clock. From The Roly-Poly Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.