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BAHÁ'Í
FAITH
GUITARS ABUSE
OF COPYRIGHT DIXIE
HIGHWAY FORD WIRING RETIREE GET-TOGETHER LUNCHEONS WHEN I WAS YOUNG (League City in the 1960's) SPACE ALUMNI GAMES RADIO MISC HDTV GUESTBOOK |
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Roger Reini The
current date and time is: This is the same site that used to be at www.rreini.com and eventually may be there again, if things work out. Some links may not be fully functional yet; those will be corrected in due course. New (April 29, 2008): a page on Ford EDS (Wiring) Retiree Get-Togethers. You don't have to be retired to go... Who am I? I'm Roger Reini, a man who's spent some 40-odd years on this Earth, mostly in Texas (where I grew up) and Michigan (where I currently live). Where
I grew up: League
City, Texas -- not far from NASA's Johnson Space Center THE BAHÁ'Í FAITHThe Bahá'í Faith has been an important part of my life since mid-1993, when I first began to study it. I've been a Bahá'í since March 1994. There are many things that attracted me to the Faith. For one thing, it makes so much sense. It speaks so eloquently to the needs of today. For another... well, perhaps you should read about it yourself. After all, independent investigation of the truth is a key principle of the Faith. Feel free to check out the links listed on the upper left of the page. Be sure to look at my pilgrimage journal as well; I visited the Holy Land in December 2007 and prayed at the sacred Shrines of Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb MUSICI took piano lessons when I was young, but my main musical instrument, and my true love, is the guitar. I started playing in 1976, right around the time I discovered the group that Paul McCartney belonged to before Wings, a somewhat obscure group from Liverpool known as the Beatles :) . I have several guitars -- an acoustic 12-string, an acoustic bass, a Les Paul Jr. clone (the first electric guitar I ever owned, a birthday present from Mom & Dad) -- but the guitars I like the most are my Rickenbackers. Some of my musical interests:
OTHER ENTERTAINMENT INTERESTSI've been an admirer of Tracey Ullman and her work for many years -- since March 24, 1984, to be exact. To see why, take a look at my site TTO: Totally Tracey Online. I also enjoy The Simpsons (which spun out of The Tracey Ullman Show) and Star Trek in all its forms, as well as Doctor Who and its spinoffs (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures) ABUSE OF COPYRIGHTI recently came across an article that chilled me. It commented on the ever-extending durations of copyrights and on how this is leading to some very ominous trends regarding creativity, free expression and the control of content. I'll be composing my own thoughts on the subject and posting them here soon. TRAVELI've done a bit of traveling in my life -- 41 of the 50 states, plus Canada, Mexico, the UK, France, Finland and Israel. I've posted some travelogues and pictures from my journeys on the Travel page.
WHEN I WAS YOUNGHere's a page on my memories of League City when I was a young boy. How the area has grown since then! SPACEI've had an interest in the space program from my youngest days. No doubt, it was fueled by my father's working for NASA for over 30 years until his death. He helped put man on the moon, and that's something I'm very proud of. ALUMNIIf you knew me in high school (Clear Creek H.S. in League City), you can read my profiles on some of the sites dedicated to bringing together former classmates -- they're listed on the left. If you didn't know me, you can still read my profiles! Or better yet, check this page dedicated to the CCHS class of 1981. GAMESGame shows have become the in thing; to the left, you can see a few of my favorite links. Not all of them are TV shows; when I was in Southern California in June 1998, I discovered an addictive radio quiz program called Hooked On Trivia airing on KFMB in San Diego (it's no longer on the air, though). RADIOHere are a few links to stations that I listen to, either over the air or via the Net. I especially recommend the Janice Long show on BBC Radio 2 (Sunday-Thursday, 7 PM-10 PM Detroit time; Monday-Friday, midnight-3 AM, London time). I'm also a big fan of satellite radio, both XM Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. HDTVHigh-definition television (HDTV) is the wave of the future. And I was one of the early surfers in Detroit. I'll describe my experiences with receiving and watching HDTV in Detroit; check back here for updates. FOLDING@HOMEI'm participating in a distributed computing experiment called Folding@Home, which studies how proteins fold and rearrange themselves. The results might lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, mad cow disease, Parkinson's disease and other disorders. I'm using my iMac computer's spare computing cycles to do the calculations. I sure hope it finds something useful. E-mail:
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