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 "retroactive lifetime goal"* is having our own Carte Blanche Atlas [of Blank Maps] referenced by a Lewis Carroll expert as "amazing" and "a reliable source of information ... without errors." Scholar Doug Howick even quotes our nine crucial differences between a blank map and a blank page. (Those nine differences are listed here as well.) It's all in the Knight Letter of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and a pdf of the issue is available via Archive.org. (Granted, this is technically news from 2011, but we blog years in advance as part of our ongoing time-bending experiments.)