This page represents a jumping off point for all of my online endeavors, my various "hats" if you will. Feel free to explore.
RoCeMaBra.com
RoCeMaBra Web Services is the umbrella covering all of my online activities. The name stems from the first names of my family
members, ROger, my wife CEce, and adult sons MAtthew and BRAdley.
RCMB, the abbreviation that also refers to the umbrella, is not a real
business, and I don't depend on it for income. But it does offer a number of services to my "clients," i.e., the other web projects
elsewhere on this page, including E-mail delivery, mailing list support, web design, spam protection, and various web applications
developed as CGI-based pages.
Podcasts
I publish a few podcasts and hope the list will grow.
Todd Rundgren stuff
I have been a fan of Todd Rundgren's music since the early 1970s. Surveying the early web in 1994, I found few good sources of TR
information, so I decided to start my own. The site has grown to many thousands of Megs with more than a million visits since its
inception. Fan particpation is a big part of its success. And it doesn't hurt that Todd Rundgren himself has endorsed the site as
an "authorized fan site."
ToddFest/West
In 1995, another TR fan, Debbie Sommer, and I met and decided to put together a fan party for West Coast fans, dubbing it
ToddFest/West. It's been going for over ten years and is firmly established as an "event" for Todd Fans all over.
Church-related stuff
I've was a member of Calvary Lutheran Church in Rio Linda, California (yes, the same Rio Linda that Rush Limbaugh made so infamous)
for more than 50 years. Although I'm no longer a member, I still support their web site.
- Calvary Lutheran Church, Rio Linda, CA - Official Home Page. I'm the
webmaster and also provide e-mail services for the church.
- How Majestic - Calvary's former contemporary music team. I played guitar and sing with the
group, and planned the bi-weekly services at which we played.
- Sacramento Conference 8 - Sierra Pacific Synod - ELCA - I'm the Conference
Communicator, keeping area churches informed of activities through this web site, as well as e-mail distribution services.
- Sacramento Lutheran Television - SLTV was formed in 2003 by Diane Lowe and me to develop
Lutheran television programming in the Sacramento area. Our weekly cable access show was called "Lutherans ALIVE!" and was on
the air for three years.
- North State Ecumenical Conference - A cooperative of Christian church bodies throughout Northern California,
based in Sacramento.
- Internet for Congregations - This somewhat dated page was developed
during the early days of the web to help train church webmasters in the Sacramento Conference and the Sierra Pacific Synod.
It still has references to some valuable material.
- Lutheran Church of the Ascension - We've been attending and will likely join Ascension in November. I don't have anything to do with its web site (yet)
Antelope
Antelope, California, has been my home since 1994. Early on, I thought about developing a web site for the town, but somebody
beat me to it. I contributed a bit to it, and over time it just sort of faded away. I renewed an interest in developing it
again in 2002, but failed to get the attention of those who could make some of the address changes I needed. But in 2004 I was
successful and am developing a new site under the old Antelope.CA.US address. A point of trivia: I actually am initially reponsible
for creating the Antelope.CA.US domain, because of my desire to register rocemabra.antelope.ca.us, my first personal domain.
The .ca.us registrar had to
create antelope.ca.us in order to add mine, and I was the nominal owner until the first Antelope Community Web was born.
Rio Linda
High School Class Reunion Websites
In 1999, I attended my wife's 20-year class reunion, lamenting the fact that my own class had not had a reunion since 1981.
I decided that it was time to do something about it. Over the next two years I found a significant portion of the class, formed
a reunion committee and succeeded in having our 30-year reunion. I developed this web site, and used it as a template for class
reunion sites for my wife's and my sister's classes as well.
Music-Related stuff
I have loved music forever, and have sung in school choirs, played in the school band, learned to play guitar, and have composed
over 50 pieces of music. A special accomplishment is my two rock operas, one written in 1973/1974, the other in 2001, both based on
the same set of music. I've also developed web pages for some folks in the music industry, primarily introduced to me by my
association with Todd Rundgren.
Toastmasters
I joined the
Capital Communicators Toastmasters Club to improve my public speaking
and podcasting skills in April, 2006. The club meets weekly at my workplace.
- Podcast for the club
- Speech #1 - Music Will Be My Life (April 20, 2006)
- Speech #2 - Podcasting (May 25, 2006)
- Thought #1 - True Love (June 15, 2006)
- Speech #3 - A Tale of Three Kitties (August 24, 2006)
- Table Topics #1 - Only Golden Fingers Could Play So Heavy (October 12, 2006)
- Speech #4 - SPAM is a four-letter word (December 14, 2006)
- Table Topics #2 - Holiday Entertainment (December 21, 2006)
- Speech #5 - ...Its Five-Year Mission... (February 1, 2007)
- Speech #6 - Six Years Ago (March 29, 2007)
- Speech #7 - 24/7 Need For Blood (May 24, 2007)
- Speech #8 - November 8th (June 21, 2007)
- Speech #9 - My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines (January 17, 2008)
- Speech #10 - Ten Strangers (February 28, 2008)
The Linder Web
Of course, my family is also important, so I offer this brief log of important sites and events in our collective lives.
- My autobiography, more or less, regarding life after
high school.
- The Linder Family Website - My great-grandfather emigrated from Sweden in the late 1800s,
settling in Wisconsin. His birth name, Anderson, was too common, so he changed his name to Linder. Only Linders that are
descended from him are related to me. This site, which I'm developing, helps to document that branch of the family.
Christmas
An annual Christmas letter tradition began in 1995, and I've put them on the web ever since.
Roger's Social Sites
Cece's Social Sites
Photo Galleries
Significant Events of 2008
- January 1 - Roger begins first term as President of Capital Communicators
- February 28 - Roger achieves Competent Communicator in Toastmasters
- March 17-19 - Cece and Roger Travel to Murphys, California
- May 13 - Brad's 25th
- June 12 - Roger achieves Competent Leader in Toastmasters
- July 17-23 - Cece and Roger travel to Toddstock in Kauai
- August 3 - Roger and Cece host Roger's dad Rudy's 80th birthday party
- August 28-September 1 - Roger and Cece travel to Rundgren Radio Birthday Bash in Las Vegas
- September 13 - Roger and Cece host the 14th annual Linder Family Picnic at Gibson's Ranch
- October 16 - Roger and Cece's 32nd anniversary
- October 21 - Brad starts new job at Tre
- November 1-30 - Roger paricipates in NaNoWriMo
- November 3 - End of an Era - Brad's last day at Dry Creek Station
- November 8 - Cece's 52th
- November 9 - Roger and Cece join Ascension Lutheran Church
- November 29 - Roger completes first novel
- November 30 - Roger's 55th
- December 20 - Matt presented his Master's Degree in Music History
- December 30 - January 2, 2009 - Roger and Cece travel to East Coast to attend New Year's Eve Party Featuring TODD RUNDGREN
Significant Events of 2007
- October 16 - Roger and Cece's 31st anniversary
- October 24 - Roger spies Thistle Dew Desert Theatre on a lunchtime walk
- October 29 - Roger's play "Only Golden Fingers Could Play So Heavy" read in public for the first time
- November 8 - Cece's 51st
- November 30 - Roger's 54th
Significant Events of 2006
Significant Events of 2005
- January 15 - Brad begins working at Dry Creek Station in Rio Linda
- February 5 - Wedding of Matthew Linder and Katherine Bailey (Wedding Pictures)
- March 28 - Matt's 25th birthday
- May 13 - Brad celebrates his Friday the 13th birth (22 years ago) on Friday the 13th.
- July 18 - Cece and Roger venture to Idaho on vacation.
- September 24 - Rudy, Roger and Matt on "Lutherans ALIVE!"
Significant Events of 2004
- February 17 - Brad begins teaching music at Merryhill School
- March 12 - Roger and Cece meet Alan Parsons
- April 9 - Catelyn Johanna Ash Denison (grandaughter of my brother, Michael), Roger's first great-niece, born.
- May 13 - Brad turns 21
- May 30 - Cece's nephew Jeremia Fisher gets married
- June 2-9 - Roger and Cece go to Hawaii
- July 1 - Antelope Community Web officially unveiled on Antelope's 10th birthday
- July 5 - Matthew and Katherine engaged
- September 5 - Matt and Katherine's engagement party
- September 18 - Cece's 30 year class reunion
- December 1 - Second wedding of the next Linder generation (Roger's niece Katie to Ben Winter)
Significant Events of 2003
- March 5 - Calvary begins great Lenten Experiment
- March 11 - Truck finally repaired from Brad's December accident
- April 4 - Roger named an Executive Producer and Musical Director for new local Lutheran Cable TV program to debut September, 2003.
- April 5 - Garage door painted
- August 2 - Roger's dad's 75th
- August 13 - Matt breaks his leg
- September 6 - "Lutherans ALIVE!" debuts on local cable TV
- November 10 - Roger and Cece TV makeover - KXTV 10
- November 29 - How Majestic appears on "Lutherans ALIVE!"
- November 30 - Roger's 50th
Significant Events of 2002
- March 23 - 1st wedding of the next generation (Roger's niece Megan and new hubby Brett)
- March 28 - Matt's 22nd
- April 25 - Brad starts 1st job at Leatherby's
- May 13 - Brad's 19th
- May 15 - Brad gets drivers license
- May 17 - Brad's first auto accident
- May 18 - Brad loses job (this was not Brad's best week ever)
- July 27 - ToddFest/West in Antelope
- October 6 - Matt totals his car in rollover on I-5 (this was not Matt's best day ever)
- October 16 - Roger & Cece's 26th
- November 8 - Cece's 46th
- November 30 - Roger's 49th
- December 17 - Brad's 2nd auto accident
Significant Events of 2001
- March 28 - Matt turns 21
- May 6 - Roger produces "40 Days" rock opera
- May 13 - Brad turns 18
- June 7 - Brad graduates from High School
- July 27-29 - Roger's Class of 1971 celebrates 30 year reunion
- July 27-September 1 - Roger grows beard
- July 31 - Brad passes driver's permit test
- September 2 - Roger's parents celebrate 50th anniversary
- October 10 - rocemabra.com established
- October 16 - Roger and Cece celebrate 25th anniversary
- November 8 - Cece's birthday
- November 30 - Roger's birthday
Pages by Matt Linder
My son Matt has developed several sites of his own.
Brad Linder's Site
Miscellaneous Stuff
Other Stuff
I didn't do these myself, but they do deserve special recognition here.
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