Rob Vincent

nerd of all trades

Here’s a blog in which I write very sporadically. This version of my blog was started in 2025. If you’d like to subscribe in a feed reader, here’s the RSS link.


  • The Telephone Keeps Ringing

    This week I made a digital mixtape for Gila. Among its contents was the full version of the song used as the opening theme for Off the Hook, the weekly FM radio show on which we both work. Gila has been part of the show for many…

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  • Best Decade Ever

    On January 12th, 2016, exactly ten years ago today, my beloved wife Gila and I had our first date. As I wrote this time last year, that date went really well. Here’s how that date came to be! One fine day in December 2015, after I’d taken…

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  • Greg Newby

    I first met Greg Newby at the HOPE conference in 2000. H2K was my first time attending HOPE, and I was overwhelmed with the new experience and the chance to connect with all sorts of fascinating folks, Greg among them. I was instantly hooked, and became a…

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  • The Twin Towers and Gender

    There’s a certain attempt at offensive humor which has been circulating for a long time now, and I find myself thinking about it today. Please note this is me quoting the line for criticism, not endorsing it as a joke at all: “Genders are like the Twin…

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  • Muppet cards for Pride!

    July 1, 2025 update: the giveaway described in this post is now over! Thank you to all who donated and received cards. I’m proud to have helped raise some money for worthy causes. There were some cards from the set left over, which will be given away…

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  • Gila sketch – Nine

    Nine years ago today – January 12th, 2016 – my beloved wife Gila and I had our first date. That evening upgraded my life forever. We’d met on a dating app a few days earlier, exchanging some lovely messages which led us to plan a quick date…

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