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.
Ever since we spent the night in that haunted clock tower in Solvang, we haven't been able to properly time our seasonal posts. Whenever you happen to be, this one is from Salem's 1983 yearbook.
This is the most chaste Eve we've encountered not wearing a fig leaf. Meanwhile, Adam's fig leaf skirt is rather rare in the Eden fashion line. From Nebelspalter, 1905.
If it's true that "time is mathematics, where there is no past and future" (Alberto Palazzi, Relativity from Lorentz to Einstein), then we can read that backwards 6 and colon as mathematical symbols. Hence, ∂8:88 can be understood to mean a "partial derivative of 8 with respect to 88." Otherwise, we may have to accept that the time is ∂8:88 PM AM World Time Home Time, and that the temperature is a toasty 188 Celsius Fahrenheit. Photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator Ed Hunsinger.