mDuo13's Lair

• Name: Rome Reginelli
• Birthdate: November 13, 1986
• Height: 5'10"

My name is Rome Reginelli and I was born and raised in California, mostly in San Jose, but I currently attend Pomona College in southern California. I've wanted to be a writer ever since I was in first grade and I read the book Sam the Cat Detective. My taste for novels hasn't diminished since, but it has been supplemented by a love of anime, video games, and music. I like to try my hand at all kinds of different things, and that has led to my experiments in computer graphics, programming, and composing/sequencing, among other things that I have left offline.

I like to listen to a lot of kinds of music, but if you keep an eye on my 'mDuoAMP', or better yet, my last.fm profile, you'll see that my favorite music tends to be stuff from anime and game soundtracks. In particular, I'm obsessed with music by Yuki Kajiura. There are also a lot of artists on OC ReMix whom I really respect. In terms of non-electronic music, I'm a big fan of ska music like Reel Big Fish and several different subgenres of rock. There are also times when I get a hankering for blues or reggae.

I'm a fan of web standards, and I enjoyed all the work and torture of coding this website in PHP, XHTML, and CSS. My favorite browser is Firefox, so the site is optimized to display on it, but should look good on any modern browser. If not, let me know. I also really love the Python programming language and I encourage everyone to try it out, because you can get a feel for what computer programming is like without having to deal with all the nastier lower-level things that have ensured that I don't become a Computer Science major.

I could also use this space to make a bunch of recommendations about good books, anime, games, and other ways to occupy yourselves, but I'll quit while I'm ahead and say that you're better off enjoying whatever you can and finding out for yourself what's good. This is really supposed to be about me and all I've done with it is talk about where I'm from and what I like. I don't think that really gives you a realistic idea of who I am, though. If you really want to know about me, you can probably figure out something from reading Planar Strife. You could also google 'mDuo13' and see what comes up. So far as I can tell, all of those results are either things I've done or mentions people have made of me and my work.