Rei's Home Page

Est. Feb. 1994

Yup, I replaced the old graphic.

Available in this homepage: random artwork, random documents on random fun info (such as Anime), a random game ("The CyberMUD"), and lots of random links!! By the way, my Thank You section has moved to the end of this page. And now you can trivially send me comments.

The MIT Hack Gallery. Everything from the CP Car on the Dome to the Bat in Lobby 7.

THESIS T-SHIRTS!! Limited supplies. Email me! Stats: Shirts Sold: 26 L, 40 XL (I admit I lost count a while ago).

Just how buried are the SIPB webmasters today? Oh, now we have some stats.

Rei's Online Art:

(Most GIFs made with SuperPaint 3.5 on a Mac, Graphic Converter to go from PICT to GIF format; fancier ones made with FractalDesign Painter)

I have a

Small note about legalities. Please read before downloading any of these.

Horse A rearing horse. 'Nuff said. (xbm converted to GIF)

Respite A nice day to sit under a tree with your dragon pal. (xbm converted to GIF)

Dragon Armed and dangerous. (xbm converted to GIF)

Fantasy Makes me want to have mint breathsavers, or something. (xbm converted to GIF)

QuarterII He's just a guy.... (xbm converted to GIF)

Kurama and Hiei (GIF). Toshihiro Togashi's characters, from Yu Yu Hakusho.

Ryoga (GIF) Rumiko Takahashi's Ryoga, from the series Ranma 1/2.

Oscar (GIF) from The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda.

Locke (GIF) from Chojin Locke by Hijiri Yuki.

Scenery (GIF) Random scenery.

Pancake (GIF) Random ad.

Some random face (GIF) (manga-style, of course).

SIPB GIFs Stuff you see on the SIPB server.

More SIPB GIFs See above.

YET more SIPB (and non-SIPB) GIFs

Another page devoted to GIFs

Quick sketch of pet birds. My pet birds, in particular.

My stupid (extra-dark) self-portrait GIF.

Photos! Photos of my furry and feathery friends.

Scanned images of manga-style line drawings (GIFS).

Rei's Anime and Manga Page. Includes: Manga descriptions, overviews, and summaries, random manga/anime lists, "what are manga and anime?", What hasn't been manga-fied?, and the list of Cambridge/Boston manga/anime shops

A random thing about Ki (Chi, Qi, prana(?)) energy. What is "plus" Ki?

A random list of cool organisms.

Stuff about keeping pet birds. Cockatiels and lovebirds, in particular. Feed your birds veggies!

A random list of truly evil things.

A few random thoughts on being a writer.

A random list of recent computer games that I've played, and what I thought of 'em. Mostly non-PC fantasy RPG..

For those with nothing better to read: Me. Plus my local random favorite foods.

For those of you at MIT who like to bitmap: Inessential Bitmap, in HTML format! Also available in the SIPB Office and on online help (olh).

"The CyberMUD." (My random text adventure game from 1994). By the way, there IS a plot. It just starts about 1/3 of the way through....

Should I put my rejected stories here? Hmmmm....

Random Yummy Recipes. I think they're original. Check out my Tea-o-Death...

The World Wide Web for the Clueless. Just in case, like me when I started, you don't know netscape from apache.

Stats for these rei-related pages. I was just curious.... Here's 1 day's stats (this page got 237 connections via www.mit.edu:8001).

Memoirs of MIT. Written in '92, and re-discovered in a forgotten corner of my account. Best understood if you've been here.

In defense of cynicism, and one way out of it.

Stuff I have that I didn't write, but which I either have a copy of or help maintain:

EIT. Have you been EITed lately?

The October 1992 MIT hack, Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool, had these Commandments.

Interested in self-defense? Here's the Ki Society Homepage. The Ki Society teaches Ki-Aikido, a branch of aikido which stresses inner strength, Ki (Chi) development, and mind and body coordination. New links keep rolling in....

If you're interested in becoming a SIPB member, check out the SIPB Office Manual.

Cold Fusion Technology. Contact Dr. Mallove at 76570.2270@compuserve.com for more info.

The MIT Hack Gallery. MIT's favorite pastime. Watch for new photos, new write ups, and new hacks!

The one and only MIT SIPB home page, of which I am a webmaster. I maintain the MIT Community-founded Commercial Sites page. For a while I did the stats.

Once upon a time, I did stuff for the Official MIT home page. Useful MIT info, like how to apply.

I do occasional articles for EX, the new online Anime magazine. Speaking of mags, I do some art for The Perl Journal. Perl: The Swiss-Army Chainsaw of scripting languages. Yeah.

The MIT Anime Club. They're getting some cool links to other Anime sites!

Some local Anime images and stuff.

Fnord.

See Nick's brain.

nocturne's guide to making transparent color GIFs!

Link to mjbauer's home page. He has a page of his very own beer ratings.

I can't resist. Jeff Bigler's list of viola jokes. (Yes, I played the violin).

Alums! Keep up with current events at MIT --- The Tech (MIT's student newspaper). Read Shakespeare while you're there.

Useful publishing info for the WWW.

Derek's home page has pointers to PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) info. Plus, MIT PGP and PGPfone.

Go through this MIT AI Lab question parser (START) to get to Jay Keyser's new poem.

Not MIT, but close enough. Boston skyline, updated every minute, at Openmarket.

Not even in the country, but what the heck; Monty's an alum.... Monty's OggSquish audio storage format.

The wide, webbed world:

Spirituality - a treasure trove: joy, caring, hope, intelligence, good writing, and faith in action. Other spirituality and discernment resources: Discernment & The Spiritual Path. Discernment. The Contenders' (extreme) discernment. I don't agree with a lot of the previous, but some of it has to be said and isn't said anywhere else. More stuff, for those in need.

More Anime ("Venice")! Plus, the "Anime homepage", the extensive Resource List, or this one at Berkeley. Maybe you're an anime fan near U of Mich.? Oh, and here's mipepi's anime stuff. rec.arts.anime resources list (where to buy!). Newer additions will go to my anime page.

The more fantasy I read, the more I like Tolkien.

I'm a Geek (vs 3!). You may be one, too. (Vers. 2, Vers. 1.) What (MBTI) Type are you? (I'm an INTJ (+F, +P))

Old "new" stuff: NCSA's suggested Starting Points for Internet Exploration. "What's Hot and Cool." What's New with NCSA Mosaic has ended (1993-1996).

Search with EisGalaxy. And EINet Galaxy is cool, too. Can't forget Yahoo, either.

More searches: The Infoseek Search Service. Because they insisted. Altavista. Other search places.

Internet Resources Meta-Index at NCSA. Plus a WWW Catalog at a university in Geneva.

Henry Houh's list: Commercial Sites on the Web has moved here. Internic Directory

News online. GNN. CNN. Pathfinder (Time, Life, Money, etc). Boston Glob.

For you dino-freaks: Dinoinfo stuff in Hawaii. Plus, Paleontology at Berkeley! And their subway to other museum-style servers.

Be a tourist with The Virtual Tourist. Or, visit Japan directly. Japan Infoweb. List of travel info.

Short, silly (alas slow) animations at Kyushu Institute of Design. Snazzy commercial ones: Click3X.

The Planet Earth Home Page. Speaking of Earth, LL Bean's Parksearch is cool. CNN's Environment page.

Intros to the Web. A WWW Guide, and the Beginner's guide to HTML

Mandelbrot! Nice graphics at U of Tennessee.

Yet another weather info server at MSU. Excellent movies. Intellicast has nice graphics.

Spelunkers! Check out caving stuff at Yale.

Neat astronomy pictures at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Defense Technical Information Web. The military isn't as fun as it used to be. But if you're bored and have the money, try flying jets (as in MiGs) in Moscow.

Perl Archive. Yay! Perl Man Page. Perl writer Randal Schwartz's situation. The Perl Journal. This is !Perl: Tcl.

Fish! FINS (mostly marine) and Tropical Fish Aquariums. Lots of detailed info!

Birds! Bird FAQ, a bird page and an aviary! Dr. Pepperberg and Alex, the parrot who might be able to read someday. Dutch Parrot Refuge. (Non sequitur: how homing pigeons might find home).

Books! Classic books at Wiretap, author-search (CMU) or title-search (CMU) or Home page for rgs. Read some classics while waiting for your compile to crash. Or, be silly and find a MUD or two or three (wow). gprog. gmuds.

Alife and reallife: Play with Avida, neural nets and artificial life (FAQ with neat info and all sorts of anonymous ftp addresses). Real critters, MedHelp's library (for when critters get the better of you). More medical database stuff.. Self-help resource.

The Typing Injury Archive. For an alternate to icky keyboards/mice, try Datahands!

Wells Fargo Bank includes the (true) Adventures of Wells Fargo: tales from the Old West. Speaking of money... check out FinanCenter for their useful web services.

Netrights: Keep up to date with your changing rights on the Internet with the EFF's Alerts. What's up with the "Communications Decency Act"? (Leahy's cool!). Speaking of rights: 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained. Copyright resources.

You can make a difference. Non-Profit Organizations, Nonprofit Resources Catalogue, and the Internet NonProfit Center. I like this list! Money's charity search. Save the Children. You can start at home, with your family.

The Virtual Garden. . A real online interactive garden! Into mail-ordering plants? See this list or this one. The Trellis - gardening links.

Greenpeace has been in the news lately. Read about the first Rainbow Warrior ship and its sinking in '85.

The US Postal Service and Federal Express. Find out postal rates and track packages.

Alpha, shareware text-editing for the Mac. Unrelated: Squaresoft hints, for when you're stuck in their Super Nintendo games.

Bandwidth Conservation Society: how to make images faster.

Comments/suggestions about anything in this homepage? Email me at rei@mit.edu. Really! (Or, you can even use a comment form).

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