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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day from Groucho and Dick Cavett and me.

Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Got an email: $1700 refund from a carpenter. Link to enter banking info. All indications of a scam. Spidey sense says, “i think this is real”. Little research. Workman trying to refund a customer. Sent a note. Quick reply OMG Thanks! Don’t let shitty people make you shitty too.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Jokes my brain writes when I’m not paying attention: Why do they call it “induced labor” and not “forced labor”?

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Tomorrow is Dieter Rams 94th birthday. And for the next 48 hours you can watch @garyhustwit.bsky.social’s terrific documentary for free. www.chanceoperations.com/rams

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Two days ago I found the Audyssey mic for my 2012 Onkyo receiver and decided to recalibrate my home theater system. Discovered I had miswired my left front speaker and it has been out of phase for ??? years! 😳😵‍💫🤦‍♀️. Corrected the wiring and now everything sounds wrong! 🤷‍♀️

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

People are telling Tim Cook stories. I got one. One year for SF Pride Tim was visiting with employees and their families before the parade. I got in line to say hi and he asked if I wanted a photo. I said no, I just wanted to give him a hug. So we hugged and then took a photo.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I had an opportunity to complete the funding for 2 ukuleles for a 3rd grade class so each student could have their own. Imagine my surprise when these ‘thank you’ cards arrived. I need to get a second refrigerator so I can hang them all. ❤️ @donorschoose.bsky.social #ShareThanks

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just stumbled across this audio. In 2022 I was trying to restart my old podcast and created this sound file. I remember how long it took to find all these clips. Makes me realize I may actually like production more than performing!

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Just walked out of Marty Supreme. I never do this. It was simply too disturbing to stay. An endless assault on my senses I was becoming more and more agitated and uncomfortable. Chalamet is terrific.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Waiting for some routine service to be completed and noticed this tableau. Feels like an apt metaphor for the current state of our country.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Just walked over to the large window in my office overlooking the street and started banging it while shouting “Elaine!!! Elaine!!!” I realized no one had the slightest idea what I was doing and it made me laugh.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This is Frankie. He is a very good boy. When the fence came down Frankie would hang around when I was out back so I started giving him treats. Last week the fence was repaired but they refused to make a Frankie window. Now treats go through a knothole and it feels dirty.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Woke up this morning to the surprising news that I’m two years older than Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

He worked with some of the greats. Coppola. Levinson. Lumet. And Irwin Allen. RIP Robert Duvall

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It’s 2am. I’m awake with insomnia & anxiety after dealing with non-heart related chest pains for 3 days. Apropos of exactly nothing I pick up my guitar and start figuring out how to play “Please Come To Boston” by Dave Loggins by ear. I feel better. The universe is magic. I think I can sleep now.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Happy World Radio Day! And here’s a link to “Campus FM”, free and open source, which allows you to live stream college radio stations from around the world. #worldradioday2026 www.campus-fm.com

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The amazing @lorak.bsky.social introduced me to Mori Point during the pandemic (even though I’d lived in the Bay Area forever.) And today I learned that’s where the final scene in Harold and Maude was filmed. RIP Bud Cort. Your work in this film remains unparalleled and a cherished memory.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Went to a comedy show to see a comedian I thought was woke. Turns out he’s just an antisemite. Understandable mistake. Won’t happen again.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Was just looking up a semi-famous person who disappeared from public life and came across some troubling details and the voice in my head piped up, "Well that explains it... they're a f*cking idiot."

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Think of it this way… we’ll be able to tell our kids they were conceived at the Melania movie…

Seat selection screen for the Melanoa movie with all seats empty except two together in the center of the very back row

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I recently watched a colleague get married on Zoom. It was a Jewish service and when the rabbi said, “…it reminds me of the story from Genesis…” the voice in my head said “…when Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel?…” I keep telling you there’s something wrong with me.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In my 30s I decided I needed to visit the ocean on New Year’s Day. From Boston I would drive to Cape Cod. Now I come to Santa Cruz. Here’s wishing everyone a healthy, joyous, & fortunate 2026. “There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.” KV

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness. Chag Urim Sameach!

Hanukkah menorah with all eight candles lit for the eighth night

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Takes me back to my college days…

Screen cap of aliexpress listing for a mic preamp that contains the mangled specification “sex to noise ratio” likely intending signal to noise

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

As today is Thanksgiving here in the US it is constitutionally mandated that you listen to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice's Restaurant Massacree” at least once. Sorry. I don’t make the rules. 🤷‍♀️

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

In honor of those commemorating the 2001 introduction of the original iPod remind me to tell you sometime how I came speeding around the corner of Mariani onto De Anza trying to beat the light and almost killed Steve as he jaywalked across all 9 lanes just a month before launch.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

If the Democrats are “cracking like dogs” they’re looking pretty clever to me…

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

On Feb 24, 2006 I had a podcast (too soon is the same as being wrong) and created a parody in the style of Dickie Goodman covering the time that Dick Cheney shot his friend Harry Whittington in the face. It was in poor taste then. It's in poor taste now. Please to enjoy.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Wait. I thought Opus Dei was that band from Animal House 🤔 “Wait’ll Opus sees us! He loves us!” #DexterLakeClub

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The prompt was “Master pizza maker tosses three pies at once while a crowd gathers behind him and cheers ‘Go Pizza!, Go Pizza!’” Missed it by -that- much. 🤣 #Sora

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Ask me why I got my ukulele signed by the members of @everclearmusic.bsky.social last night…(oh, and they blew the roof off the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park. Just starting their “Sparkle and Fade” 30th anniversary tour. Rock and Roll lives!

Small black ukulele signed “To Robin” in silver by the members of the band Everclear

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

@james.crid.land From the other place. Guessing you’ve seen this, but if not…

Jody Avirgan
@jodyavirgan
In breaking news moments like this, there should be a type of podcast you can listen to in real time, easily accessible for free.

Matthew Keys
@MatthewKeysLive
Radio. You're thinking of a radio.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

In 1969 this song was #23 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on Hot County Songs, and #1 on the Easy Listen charts. What the fuck happened to us? #tryalittlekindness www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3u8...

youtube.com

Try A Little Kindness

YouTube video by Glen Campbell - Topic

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I'm going through a client's presentation & cleaning up inconsistent formatting & random font changes & graphic elements that shift by a pixel between slides and just looked up to the sky and shook my fist and shouted, "STEVE!!!" I still bleed in six colors. (IYKYK ) #Apple

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Mini review of the new Mission Impossible: Insanely entertaining & definitely worth seeing on a big screen. Are there masks? Yes. Is there running? So Much Running. Did I well up with tears? At least 10 times. Did I laugh out loud? At least as many. Big. Messy. Astounding. Summer starts now.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Did you hear the one about the Jewish Indian…

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Tomorrow is Dieter Rams’ birthday. Stream Gary Hustwit’s fantastic documentary for free. www.ohyouprettythings.com/rams

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

🎶Chickity China the Chinese chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin' Watchin' X-Files with no lights on We're dans la maison I hope the Smoking Man's in this one Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic Like Sting I'm tantric Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy🎶

Julie Andrews in a scene from The Sound of Music on a hillside with a guitar singing to some children.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A long time ago I joined a secret project that became the Apple Watch. More than 10 years later I’m still finding new ways to close my rings. Congratulations to all that came before and everything that comes next! #closeyourrings

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Got to see The Big Lebowski on the big screen last night in Monterey California at the Golden State Theater (-near- the In-N-Out on Del Monte) and it was followed by a Q&A with the man himself and at this point the merging of Jeff Bridges and Jeff Lebowski has become complete. The Dude Abides!

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Question: what did it say before “Stick”?

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If you can keep your head when all about you, are losing theirs and blaming it on you… then you’ve found a doctor who will refill your prescription for Xanax, and I’d really appreciate it if you could give me their phone number

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Got to see the Member Preview of “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64 at @famsf.bsky.social today. Some thoughts: 1. I knew they were young but damn they were young. 2. 73 Million people watched them live on Ed Sullivan. No YouTube. Wow. 3. There was a time when not every photo was crispy sharp.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

yeah... that's what we need...

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Watching you on @maddow.msnbc.com, Congressman and I'm not interested in you "telling stories" of how the current administration is hurting Americans. I want you and all the elected members of the Democratic Party to "Take Action". The time for simply talking has passed.

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

San Francisco Bay (with the city in the distance) as seen from Foster City California #BlueSkyMonday

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Robin @rdg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Bob’s Burgers - “Ain’t Miss Debatin’” - Season 7 Episode 15 (March 26, 2017) Louise: Can anyone here do a Russian accent? Gene voiced by Eugene Boris Mirman, born Moscow, Russia 1974, is the only character who doesn’t raise their hand. Makes me laugh every time.

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