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.
We were tickled by this mention of a Ouija board lying at an impish angle on a table (from Ouija: A Farce Comedy in One Act by Morris McNeil Musselman, 1920). That inspired our own diagram about how to determine impish angles.
From the Technique yearbook of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1895. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)This should also be of interest:How to Be Your Own Cat.