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.
You've heard of trying to get a square peg in a round hole, and here's an achievement of the opposite challenge. From the Locust Valley Friends Academy yearbook of 1968.
"Students are puppets because they want to be puppets--they don't have the guts to be anything else" (From The Stoutonia, May 17, 1968). Photo from Park College's 1952 yearbook.
"And we wave goodbye to the stately red solid and growing green and smile hello to the breeze." From the Locust Valley Friends Academy yearbook of 1968.
Her official yearbook portrait is with a giant spider web. Reblog if you wove a giant web for your own portrait (or wish you had). From St. Andrews' 1979 yearbook.