Matthew Inman is a very successful website designer, who has a wry sense of humor, lots of free time, and a good grasp of graphic arts. If that sounds like a webcomic author in the making, you're right. His series of comics at The Oatmeal are hilarious -- I featured one on a past Comic Tuesday, and he keeps coming up with more.
Enjoy Matthew's work, and click around to learn more about him. He's an interesting guy. Enjoy!
Comics and Whidbey Island.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
— Calvin Coolidge
Persistence Wins Whidbey Island.
Last year I posted about the old sawdust burner on Langley Road. Since then I've happened upon two other sawdust burners, both in pretty good shape. This one is at the county museum in Centennial, Wyoming. The museum was closed, so I couldn't get close, but the patina of the cladding and the intact screen make this probably the best preserved sawdust burner I've seen.
This next burner is more utilitarian, and is surrounded by asphalt, but the screen is intact, and it is in pretty good shape. Located in an industrial area of Redding, California, there was undoubtedly a lot of timber processed in this area.
Sawdust Burners and Whidbey Island.
Today's photoblog is more enigmatic than most. Often provocative, even disturbing, MonkeyAbout is unusual in structure, too. All the posts are contained on one page, a quite large page, of course. Each photo has a simple title that seems to be descriptive, but often raises more questions than answers.
Photos from Whidbey Island.
