Bruce Alderman | Home Page

Greetings!

Welcome to my little corner of the web. I've maintained this site for nearly fifteen years. The web has changed a lot in that time, but this place really hasn't. I keep thinking one of these days I'm going to give it a major overhaul, but others projects always seem to take priority. Such is life.

From 2005 to 2010 I offered my thoughts about life, faith, morality, and similar topics in my blog it seems to me…. In 2008 I started a second blog, this blog considered harmful, where I discussed computer programming and related topics. I've stopped blogging but you can still peruse the archives.

For the last couple years I've dabbled at the "microblogging" site Twitter, where I use the pseudonym @bruce_alderman. I've never really gotten into the full Twitter experience; I mainly use it to bookmark interesting links to look at later.

Quote of the day May 24th, 2013



    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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. OK, so that's not my job title. I have a day job as a computer programmer for the Johnson County Library in Overland Park, Kansas. Writing, though, is my true vocation.

My first published article appeared in Planet Kansas, the newsletter of the Kansas Sierra Club, in December, 1999. The article was titled Stopping Christmas Shopping, and featured 15 tips for "winning the fight against holiday consumerism". It wasn't high quality literature, but it was printed with real ink on real paper. Planet Kansas, I knew, would take any articles they could get, from anyone who took the time to submit them. But that didn't matter to me. Seeing my name in a byline convinced me that I could be a writer.

My recent articles include Intelligent Design: Is It Science?, published at Yahoo! Voices, and Will the Royals Win in 2013?, published at Baseball Reflections.

You might also have seen some of my work at Wikipedia, where I've made nearly 500 edits 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 chess.com. 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

The Climate Imp	Yahoo Voices	January 2011
What can a short story from the 19th century teach us about climate change in the 21st century?
Time Travel	Associated Content	February 2009
Time moves at its own pace in canyon country
I Want You to Have This Hat	Get Lost Magazine	June 2002
How could I say no?
Sink or Swim	Associated Content	September 2008
Learning a foreign language through total immersion
Adding a Poll to Your Web Site	Codewalkers.com	June 2005
My first web programming tutorial
The God Delusion: A Source Criticism	Associated Content	November 2007
Not your typical book review
The View from the Top	Travelbackpacker.com	August 2001
Finding freedom in a weekend getaway to the mountains
Image Manipulation with HTML5 Canvas: A Sliding Puzzle	SitePoint	January 2012
Exploring the HTML5 canvas by building a simple game
The Royals' Pitching Woes	Baseball Reflections	September 2012
The season started with such high hopes…

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