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.
"I stared at the glowing tree and realized it was something related to the state of my consciousness" (Manuel J. Vargas, Awakening Home: Seeking Heaven on Earth).
We analyzed this spooky hallway with our custom Uncanny Detector app and determined that though the lonesome figure on the steps is not a ghost, he is communing with a spirit. From Duke's 2002 yearbook.
There's really only one answer to the classic riddle about the tree that falls in the forest with nobody around to hear it. Keep that tree from falling in the first place, and then it won't matter whether it makes a sound or not. From Biola University's 1982 yearbook.