weather.com's view...is it a good day to ride?
I am the Director of the Computer Lab for the Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), and Assoc. Research Scientist in CSCS. For some recent papers, see the CSCS Papers page.
Contact info:
Email: rlriolo at umich.edu
Phone: 734 763-3323
763-3301
Fax: 763-9267
Bus Address: Rick Riolo
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
323 West Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Playing with Ruby...(m,
m1)
Nop playing catch:
frisbee1
frisbee2
frisbee3
Nop enjoys her reward:
bone1,
bone2,
bone3,
bone4
you've heard of truffle pigs...here is the morel dog:
morel 3,
morel 5
and here is nop, the salty dog, showing her sea-legs in 2004:
nop-alone-1,
nop-alone-2,
nop and me 1,
nop and me 2,
nop and me 3
and in 2003:
nop-kayak1,
nop-kayak1,
nop-kayak2
Maria's car (if she can get the keys away from me!)
Maria's home away from home for much of the next few years...
(so i have the bug
all to myself!)
...where she is learning useful things like how to quickly build
a replica of stonehedge
as a bit of a diversion to fill their spare time during exam week (Dec 2005).
(the place and students are, if anything, even crazier than depicted in the
movie)
kayak on the 1974 bug;
kayak on the bug -- front;
our tandem sea kayak
Sleeping Bear Lake Dune
Climb as seen from the lake!
maria and kayak at bottom of Sleeping Bear Dune Hill
maria and kayak at bottom of Sleeping Bear Dune Hill (closer)
S.Manitou from kayak on choppy water
The kayak in its Shed,
2005-Jan-22 -- is summer just a recurring dream?
Dreams of ahab? (NB: this is a 2M mpg)
(its also a fake, alas)
Th finishers of the 2003 RideThruHell Double Century (205mi in one day)
(Merry VanderLinden, Gary Oak, Maria Riolo and me)
First ride in 2003, 15 March:
we had to shovel our way out to the road!
...and off we go...
and it was the last day the Mill Pond Bakery was open in Munith; but 2007--it is open again
on Waterloo Road, at Sugerloaf Lake!
The big bike trip to Boston (actually to Wellesley) MA, June 2000.
Another trip, to Mackinaw bridge by way of Lake Michigan shoreline,
June 2001.
first ride on santana in spring 2000
spring bounty in May 2000!
My modern re-enactment of Robinhood splitting an arrow -- no kidding, i did it with this bow at 20 meters!
Another view of the arrows.
Closer view of the arrows.
Close up.
And...to show it was
not just a fluke...i did it again, 8 days later!
Lightning does strike twice--The CN Tower in Toronto--pics i took from our room in the Royal York Hotel.
giro d'italia 2003
giro d'italia 2004
giro d'italia 2005(stage reports).
giro d'italia 2006.
giro d'italia 2007
(in english),
giro d'italia 2008 (in english)
cycling tv
with a suspicious looking bunch... (if you look close at the picture in the picture, you can several of us, including Bill Hamilton, circa 1988). In memory of Bill Hamilton.
michigan radio whatismyipaddress.com
Your horoscope (from Weird Al Yankovic):
The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep.
Perhaps we have not succeeded in answering all of your questions.
The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new
questions. In some ways you may feel as confused as ever, but we
hope you are confused on a higher level and about more important things.
-- Adapted from a letter to Tom and Ray Magliozzi
(See also my 30 seconds of fame on CarTalk
here.)
Follow the CSCS pages to lots of interesting pages...
The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS)
University of Michigan
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