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.
Sometimes we don't realize we need a thing until we seriously do need it. If a digit of St. Rinbo happens to be that thing you need today, here it is. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
"Saints, apostles, teachers, Shiva, Indra and all the gods—when the morrow comes, not one of them will remain: only the Invisible, the Imcomprehensible, will endure." —A Sixteenth Century Mystic by W. G. Orr (1947)
TerminalSigma envisioned "a Byzantine icon of a saint, but with a sooty owl’s head instead of a human head." Our illustration is more of a Byzantine angel than a saint — we can't control how these things turn out.
Norbert Wiener wrote, "If I were to choose a patron saint for cybernetics out of the history of science, I should have to choose Leibniz" (Cybernetics, 1965).