BEGINS HERE.
"Dad, I keep finding all this cool stuff on the Internet!"
"It's okay, son, that's just Ian's Website."
Confused?
Aren't we all a little confused at times? Maybe, just maybe, being confused isn't a bad thing. Maybe it means your life is just complicated enough to keep you interested. What would it be like if you understood everything? BO-ring.
That's why Ian's Website, though accessible and enjoyable to ALL English-speakers, is a little confusing. A little . . . out there, if you will. You can never quite tell what's around that next corner. Sometimes you can't even tell what was around the last corner. It's not because you're stupid--though you may very well be stupid--it's because we work hard to make Ian's Website a little unpredictable and a little incomprehensible.
Not everyone can handle "incomprehensible." The Modern period taught us that we can understand everything, and that we should be able to understand everything. Well, what if we don't understand everything--more importantly, what if we can't?
I bet we can't understand everything. I bet we can't understand ourselves. Why did I put a brain on my Website when I first made it? Why have I kept it there ever since? I don't know. I like pictures of brains. Why? What does it mean? It means different things to different people. Does my use of it intend the set of all those individual meanings? How could it? I would need to know everyone else's interpretations in order to intend them all! That doesn't make sense. So I can't tell you what the brain means. In order to clarify, I put it between two pictures of a road disappearing into the distance. In the desert. Get it?
NEW!!!
Ian's Website now offers 8 Exciting New Features:
Headlines! The news from Sarasota, Lakeland, and the Rest of the World.
(Updated regularly)
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"Art" Gallery. Now with classic art from when I was a first-year!
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David Duchovny Gallery. All the pictures are bigger than this one, I promise.
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"DON'T TOUCH THAT!"
Brand-New, Totally Interactive Feature!
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Ian's Online Journal
A Daring Social Experiment.
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Krinkle Industries Online Order Form.
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What ever happened to our undying faith in Science? What about the idea that Science would make the world a better place--that Science would solve all of our problems? The idea that Science is the instrument of the forward progress of Humanity through time? Well, Watt believed in Science. What? No, Watt. To my right is a picture of Watt's steam engine. Created by Science to make the world better. Or is it possible that Science is an unintentional social phenomenon that isn't controlled by people at all? Maybe Science is like a rock rolling down a hill, no one is guiding it, no one can control it, no one can stop it, no one can say if it is Right or Wrong. Is a rock Wrong if it rolls over a person and kills her? Is Science wrong if it creates nuclear weapons? Is the Internet Good or Bad? More information and information availablity versus the destruction of privacy? Whose job is it to answer these questions? More importantly, once they have been answered, what can we do about it? Go ahead, decide that Science is Wrong, the Internet is Bad. See where that gets you.
In the final analysis, each student is responsible for his or her own Website.
Also, check out my good friend Debra's Website.
Created, designed, and maintained by Ian Vandewalker. Questions? Comments?