Jerry Scott Fisher’s Weblog

And so is this blog! Though I’ve been a bit remiss about my posting. Work, life, and getting out and enjoying what’s left of the waning summer has taken up a lot of my time. Also I found a copy of Fellowship of the Rings sitting around the teacher’s office at work and read through it again. And also I’ve been lazy in writing. I’m however sitting on a few posts that are almost finished which I will publish soon. I may post a few stupid videos soon too. Thanks for checking and have a nice day.

[Edit: Good pilgrims of the Nobel Path, kindly join a humble search for 'God' here, here, here]

As many new bloggers may confess, once things get up and running, it becomes a small obsession of ours to click on ‘blog-stats’ and see how many people are checking in and how they got here. I’ve gotten a few clicks out of google searches for “Scott Fisher Spirituality” and  ”Kim Kwang Suk”. But the vast majority of random visits come from people seeking Buddha: “Buddha and daughters of Mara” ”Buddha’s temptations pride” “Buddha sketch” ”Deep soul pain” etc. All of this stems from a small picture I link to in this post, specifically this one.  

Sorry , good pilgrims of the noble path, all you got was some dude in Korea writing nonsense to his family and friends. But come warm your feet by this humble fire nonetheless if you’re of good-heart and you will. To honor your visit, I give you a picture and a video I took of the Lantern festival in Seoul commemorating Buddha’s birthday.

of people checking in. Thanks! I’ve been a bit side tracked with work, life, etc. WIll have a few new posts up soon, so please keep clicking. Cheers and happy weekend.

will be the name of this weblog.

Wikipedia defines a sketch as follows, “a drawing or other composition that is not intended as a finished work, but a preliminary exploration.”

I think it fits. My postings here will be what they will be. They will not be eloquent compositions nor sophisticated examinations, but rather just gliding brushstrokes of written word. Some will be better than others, a few will be terrible, and a handful more will be ongoing projects (the ‘maturing’ posts).

Perhaps in the future, I may draw ideas from this pool of inchoate meanderings. Then again maybe not. Who can say? At the moment however, it’s a joy just simply writing freely.

Thanks and God bless!

Yes, I know I have the most boring name in all of blog-dom. But until something strikes me as working well here, I’ll keep it simple.

I wanna thank those of you still checking in. I deeply appreciate you sparing a slice of your time to stop by. Please feel free to comment as often as you’d like. Just say hello, or ask questions, or give updates, or take me task for something written, or offer suggestions, or anything.  It’s hard to tell sometimes how one’s writing comes across to others.  Your feedback is very valuable to me.

My posts here will come in all shapes and sizes. Most will be the loosely tied rambling nothings as the ones published below.  Others will be simply videos or pictures. But occasionally I will try to put up some substantive posts (or series of posts) drawing upon my educational background, research, due diligence and intellectual resources.  These will be categorized as ’maturing’ posts, and can be edited and refined at any given time.

Lastly, I would like to offer a brief description of the blogroll to the left. From the top:

Amanda Carroll: Amanda is my older brother’s lovely wife. Her weblog is a wonderful and heartening chronicle of her and my brother’s unfolding adventures in parenthood. Beginning in August 2005, while God was still knitting Emily in her mother’s womb, the website currently has over 46,000 hits, and little Emily has grown into one of the happiest and most adorable little girls I have ever seen. Their second child, Andy, is due October 20th. The adventure continues.   

Byron Bangert: Father to my good friend, Nathan Bangert, Byron is an author, scholar, minister, and free lance citizen. His website has many links to his online publications, sermon archives, and HT columns.

Ed Gungor: Ed is notable author and the current lead pastor of the people’s church in Tulsa. I go to his website religiously every week to listen to a podcast of his latest sermon. He strikes me as a very sincere soul on this earth and his message resonates well with me. What’s funny is I first found out about him from one of the most unlikely of sources, the Edge Radio Broadcast. I guess there’s a lesson in that somewhere.

IU Panlab: The IU Perception and Neuroimaging laboratory employs functional MRI and psychophysics to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying human object recognition and representation. It is ran by one of the coolest professors I have ever met, Dr. Thomas James. The people there are great, and I am honored to have been able to spend some time with them. One of the publications Dr. James was gracious enough to allow me to participate in can be found here.

Markandeya: Markendeya is a blog ran by my old co-worker in Korea, Brian. Despite being named after a figure found in Hindu mythology, it mostly deals with Korea, US politics, and other things that cross Brian’s mind. New posts are pretty infrequent these days, but Brian is an old school Korea blogger (his older blog Cathartidae defunct) and I’ve always enjoyed stopping by.

My Youtube: Short and silly youtube videos by me. I’m gonna update that page soon and put up some better ones.

Roboseyo: Roboseyo is a blog by my current coworker and friend, Rob. It deals mostly with Korea related issues but also can explore a range of other topics. Rob is an excellent writer and his posts are always fun, insightful, and filled with pictures, videos and even soundtracks.

The Forvm: The forvm is a small but excellent online community. Democratically led, it has new moderators nominated and elected periodically. It arose when an older website, Tacitus, by Josh Trevino, went down. I don’t really participate there, but I enjoy visiting. Some of the discussions there are top notch, and it’s one of the few weblogs out there that successfully attracts users from all across the political spectrum to argue in good faith.

With or Without Lights: This is a website containing photos by my good friend, Drew Grodner.  Check them out. They’re quite good in my opinion. His flickr photos can be found here.

God Bless!

Hello Everybody. Thanks for stopping bye. Welcome to my weblog.

I imagine everybody (if anybody) visiting this site already knows me quite well so I won’t get into introductions and just say instead that I started up this weblog to better keep in touch with you all! Instead of cramming your inboxes with random thoughts, pictures, videos, and such, I decided just to consolidate them all here. So, in your free time on the internet,  I’d be honored to have you stop by every now and then.

A secondary reason for creating this weblog is simply to provide myself with a convenient platform for writing as often and freely as possible.  As you all are aware, language is one of the most powerful means we have of apprehending the world around us.  Our lives on this earth are virtually blended with words, and they shape our experiences every bit as much as they describe them. To increase our command of a language is to give color and richness to our lives. This is my practice room. And my goals are to work on rhythms of spontaneous writing and styles of crafting together decent prose.

There’s no real theme to this weblog. Most of my posts will probably revolve around experiences that I’ve had, things that I’ve been reading, musings, psychology, cool things I’ve found surfing, fantasy football updates, short stories, neuroscience, religion, politics, tennis, friends, family, pets, God, life and love.

I’ll see how it goes, and I hope to see ya’ll around.  Thanks again.