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.
These surreal CAPTCHA puzzles! I can't click "verify" without selecting an image, yet they're all not pipes. It's a Catch-22 (er, CAPTCHA-22?) situation. A robot can't be in a Catch-22, so I've proven I'm not a robot, yet I can't submit my proof.
René Magritte's "The Son of Man" (1964 ) finds a precursor in the bumble bees of the Kashmir Himalayas. Our image (left) is from 1954 and appears in the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. It goes without saying that "Apples depend upon bees to pollinate their flowers so that the tree will develop fruit."