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.
A: "You can make it. But only if you go now. Abandon that corpse in your arms. Do it. You must live. Someone must live to tell the tale of what happened here" (James Barclay, Elves Once Walked With Gods)
"This will be an old place someday." Another window into the glowing forests that traverse old yearbooks. From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1963 yearbook.
A yearbook-spanning forest is actually a composite of the reflectance of all tree species' canopies and the visible midstory and understory (as per Wilkie and Finn's insights on pixellated woodlands).
A giant orb of light by a snowy tree. To demystify it, as Scott Neustadter has said, would merely disappoint those of us who love not knowing. From West Virginia Wesleyan's yearbook of 1965.