Other FUN Stuff Besides Physics

• Get the latest on the Richmond Lions Rugby Club of Richmond and the Virginia Rugby Union. Even in my rapidly declining years I managed to wander around the rugby pitch with a bunch of other over-the-hill paragons of decrepitude like these and these. Alas, the body is broken down beyond repair.

• Check out the location of my old club, the Philadelphia-Whitemarsh Rugby Football Club (one of several I played on as an itinerant physicist) here. In 1999 they were National 7's Champions.

• When I lived in New York I played for Old Blue (1986-1987) of New York who made it to the Final Four for the National Championship in 1986, 1997, 1998, and 1999 and won the national 7's championship in 2005.

• Pictures from my 20-minute talk at the 1998 Conference on Computational Physics.

• The 1997 CanAm CHAMPIONS at Saranac Lake, NY are here.

• Visiting the in-laws.

• Wandering through the Solokhumbu.

• My brother Tim's website. His research covers a slightly different type of natural phenomenon than mine.

• CP studies of physical phenomenon are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

• The DUDE-MAN cometh here, here, and here!

• The clan Gilfoyle-Pattee explores Colorado here, here, and other places.

• The 2005 Commonwealth Cup CHAMPIONS in Charlottesville, VA are here.

• The 2005 CanAm CHAMPIONS at Saranac Lake, NY are here.

• The clan Gilfoyle-Pattee explores the Great Plains here.

• The Gilfoyle-Pattees explore Maui in the Hawaii Island chain here.

• The Virginia Cardinals ride again at the Commonwealth Cup 2006 here, here, and here

• The clan Gilfoyle-Pattee goes back to the old sod (Ireland, summer 2006) here.

• Garretts celebrates 4-year-old-dom! here.

• On the road again to South Dakota.

• In the fall of 2007, I was invited to give a talk at HEPMAD07 held in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

• In the summer of 2008, the dad and the Boy go camping in Arches National Park.

• In the summer of 2008, we all go traipsing through the province of Quebec.

• Scoring (and nearly barfing) at the Savannah Ruggerfest (feb, 2009).

• In the summer of 2009, we climb to the top of Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park.

• The Virginia Cardinals fight for oxygen at the Aspen RuggerFest, September, 2009.

• All in the name of Science! Pictures from the Fall, 2009 Division of Nuclear Physics meeting are here.

• During Christmas, 2010 we go exploring Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountain National Park.

• The Boy (Garrett), the Brother (Tim), and I go wandering through the Southwest in the summer of 2012 in search of adventure (or at least some good photos).

• The Boy and I go to Pennsylvania (near where I grew up) to see the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 2013.

• The whole family goes hiking and camping in the Canadian Rockies in Banff and Jasper National Parks in Alberta in the summer of 2013.

• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. I give an invited talk in China in the summer of 2014.

• The family Gilfoyle-Pattee goes adventuring in the Pacific Northwest in summer, 2017.

• My whole family (except for the cats) is out on adventures so what else can I do, but go to Iceland for the week in August, 2019?

• In the midst of the COVID19 pandemic Catherine worked for an NGO called KEP in Izmir, Turkey helping women who fled the Syrian civil war to transition to life in Turkey. I visited my courageous daughter in August, 2021.

• The Boy (Garrett), the Brother (Tim), and I saddle up again and go hiking in the wilds of Switzerland in the summer of 2022 in search of more adventures.

• Catherine and I go adventuring in the Southwest in the fall of 2022 to see the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, share some moments with a couple birds, and take in the scenery of the Southwest.

• Catherine, Garrett, and I go to the Southwest in the spring of 2023 to hike through slot canyons and over rocks and through a cathedral stone.

• Directions to our house are here along with a map and a picture.

• A map of campus with the Physics Department marked is here along with directions to campus here.