Bruce Alderman | Home Page

Greetings!

This is my home page. This is the place to find trivia about me and links to some of my writing. You can find more in my blogs.

Since 2005 I've been offering my thoughts on life, faith, and other stuff at it seems to me…. In 2008 I started a second blog, this blog considered harmful, where I discuss computer programming and related topics. And since this spring I have occasionally served up my attempts at pithy sayings and interesting links from the "microblogging" site Twitter, where I use the pseudonym @bruce_alderman.

Quote of the day March 13th, 2010



    No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Daily quotes powered by Mads Søgaard's Quote of the Day Script. Many of the quotes were collected from The Quotations Page or Quoteland. I've received a number of quotes from individuals. Send email to bruce(at)brucealderman(dot)info if you've got one you'd like to see here.

A little about me

I'm a writer. No, that's not my job title. I earn my living as a Programmer Analyst for the Johnson County Library in Overland Park, Kansas. My true vocation, though, is writing.

Planet Kansas, the newsletter of the Kansas Sierra Club, published my first article in December of 1999. The article was called Stopping Christmas Shopping, and featured fifteen tips for "winning the fight against holiday consumerism". It wasn't a very good article, but it was printed on real paper in a real publication. The reality was, I knew, that Planet Kansas would have taken just about any articles they could get. But seeing my own name in a byline filled me with a confidence I don't think I would have otherwise ever found.

My most recent published works are Time Travel at Associated Content, and a satirical piece for Street Prophets on Barack Obama's Liberal Speech to School Children.

You might also have seen some of my work at Wikipedia, where I've been an editor since June of 2006.

I've got links to more of my stuff below.

I am a moderate Christian and a member of East Heights United Methodist Church in Wichita. Lately I've been attending Grace United Methodist Church in Olathe, but have not yet transferred my membership.

I am a 1992 graduate of Bethany College. I enjoy reading, playing the piano, hiking, gardening, and playing chess. If you're a chess player, feel free to challenge me to a game at Red Hot Pawn. I play there under the username aardvark92.

Although I'm a lifelong Kansas resident for more than four decades, I have only once seen a tornado.

Selected Writings

Sink or Swim	Associated Content	September 2008
Learning a foreign language through total immersion
I Want You to Have This Hat	Get Lost Magazine	June 2002
How could I say no?
The View from the Top	Travelbackpacker.com	August 2001
Finding freedom in a weekend getaway to the mountains
Taken for a Ride	Associated Content	March 2008
What had I gotten myself into?
Blessed Are the Poor	The Long Trip Home	July 2004
Learning lessons on a mission trip to Guatemala
In Memory of Joe Hill	Street Prophets	November 2005
On the 90th anniversary of his execution
The God Delusion: A Source Criticism	Associated Content	November 2007
Not your typical book review
Adding a Poll to Your Web Site	Codewalkers.com	June 2005
Exactly what it sounds like — a web programming tutorial

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