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.
Runic inscription north of Karlberg castle. The rock with the runes was blasted away in the middle of the 19th century when the railway was constructed in the area. The inscription says: "Sigfast and Ärnfast they cut (the runes) in memory of themselves." Woodcut from the 17th century by Johan Hadorph and Johan Leitz. Courtesy of Swedish National Heritage.
Twenty of their faces are more than partially obscured. Our guess is that it took so long to set up the shot that nobody even cared at that point. From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1923 yearbook.
We saw a sign at the zoo: "Gorillas are not always visible." It's true -- it's the invisible gorillas you have to watch out for. Similarly, the nearest bear may be above you, as in this from Le Charivari, 1848.