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  Email: mario.riolo -- gmail.com

"Life is the combination of magic and pasta, of fantasy and reality.
Films are the magic, and pasta is the reality, or is it the other way around?"
-- Federico Fellini, quoted in I, Fellini

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.

Playing with Ruby...( m, m1)
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)
caltech velo; Velopasadena -- check out their vintage bike collection pasadena cyclery

first ride on santana in spring 2000
spring bounty in May 2000!
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 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!
Th finishers of the 2003 RideThruHell Double Century (205mi in one day)
(Merry VanderLinden, Gary Oak, Maria Riolo and me. Gary's hair was all black at the start of the day!)

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

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)

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.

My 15 seconds of fame on CarTalk.
Pulcina Piccola t-shirt dedicated to me!! (really!) (it used to mentionme)
Pulcina home page

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

Our prez Bsuh.
Homeland security? ( postscript, pdf)
I have my duck taped---now what?
More bsuh humor.
..and more... (drag your mouse around in the picture frame...)

In memory of Bill Hamilton -- a cherished member of our research group (the BACH group) for many years.

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