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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.  -- Mark Twain

I've had more than my share of both good and bad experiences and I've learned a lot of hard lessons. Through it all, I've tried to put my faith into action and keep my sense of humor. Feel free to explore my hundreds of choices in the left column as well as my daily Journal posts and featured items in the right column. This web site has been my labor of love since 1998 — I hope that you enjoy it and find it helpful.

cbA Silent Song - Part 5cb

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 by ComputerBob

As I’ve mentioned several times before, I’m a survivor of domestic violence, so I consider it an honor to work as a full-time volunteer at a domestic violence center and shelter. Along with serving as a legal advocate, I’m happy to help out wherever and whenever I’m needed.

Usually, on Tuesday nights, I help [more...]

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cbLocked Out Of My Housecb

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 by ComputerBob

After enduring about 3 years of drought, The Sunshine State has currently been experiencing several days and nights of severe thunderstorms with long torrential downpours. Everything that had been brown or yellow is now green. It’s beautiful, but as a result of all the rains, many areas are flooded, and it’s been a week or so since we’ve seen the sun. [more...]

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cbSeeing Anothercb

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 by ComputerBob

Yesterday, I told you that my favorite definition of creativity is “looking one one thing and seeing another.”

One way to do that is to look at things from a different perspective.

I wonder if that’s why [more...]

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cbWhat’s For Lunch?cb

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 by ComputerBob

Regular readers of this Journal know that, many years ago, I did my Masters thesis on creativity. And that my favorite definition of creativity is “looking one one thing and seeing another.”

With that in mind, I think someone was pretty creative to come up with this new use for an old CD spindle. [more...]

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cbAmazing LEGO Artcb

Monday, June 29th, 2009 by ComputerBob

If you’re old enough to remember trying to build things with Lincoln Logs as a child, then you also remember that it was impossible to build anything but log cabins out of them.

As I got older, I discovered that LEGO blocks gave me the freedom to engineer all types of buildings — as long as they [more...]

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cbWhen Nobody Is Watchingcb

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 by ComputerBob

Anyone who has read some of my articles in this web site’s Domestic Violence Information section knows that I grew up in almost constant fear of my father.

He was a trusted leader in our church. [more...]

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