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.
This may be the first centaur-airplane hybrid that we've encountered. From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
My collection of vintage centaurs is galloping along. ElodieUnderGlass writes: "I collect centaurs as well, and especially vintage ones, so I was very pleased by the idea of having a curated collection to rifle through. I left [this] collection with a sense of complete displacement. It was amazing."