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.
Q: "Can you capture the spirit of a typewriter? Because as I understand it the spirit of a typewriter is that it is a shitty version of a computer and/or the only thing keeping the Whiteout family in business" (Alex Shephard).
"It may surprise you to learn that the partition functions of each chemical species in a balanced chemical reaction can be used to determine a characteristic property of that reaction: its equilibrium constant. " —Physical Chemistry by David W. Ball
"And these are the little things who assist him in carrying out his bad intentions." From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1879. This should also be of interest:How to Believe in Your Elf.