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.
A yearbook-spanning forest is actually a composite of the reflectance of all tree species' canopies and the visible midstory and understory (as per Wilkie and Finn's insights on pixellated woodlands).
"You know about leaves and everything." "Do you think I care how many leaves are on this tree?" (Spoiler: he doesn't know that much about leaves, and he doesn't care.) From Dark Shadows episodes 292 and 858.
The old ways are increasingly forgotten. How many of us today invite the honored hare (known reverently as "kuotochitsi" in Huastecan Nahua society) to decorate the tree? From Primary Education, 1911.