Windsurfing for the rest of us. Mangrove Casita on Lac Bay, Bonaire. Sure, its a way to go as fast as youd ever want. As with anything worthwhile in life, youll always be learning. No matter how accomplished you are the next maneuver youve never done is the hardest, and uncommon amounts of effort and frustration are always part of getting there. That makes it all the more gratifying when you at last succeed.

We said goodbye to Wilbur last Tuesday a little after midnight. He passed away at home on his own bed, next to ours. We stroked him and talked to him for long minutes afterwards.

Fixed gear on a shoestring. Building a budget fixed gear bicycle. To satisfy my curiosity about riding a fixie without spending a lot of money, I built one mostly from spare or scavenged parts. Being a fixed gear newbie, I needed a lot of advice. The project evolved into a quirky experiment, trying to keep costs.

Frugal Tech is a dumping ground for ruminations about anything from saving money to identity theft, personal computers to phones. Lets start with free or open source software. Peel open a desktop computer and look inside. As well as from yourself.

This website is dedicated to the proposition that simple data can tell a story that you dont need to be a rocket scientist to understand. You can visit analyses of raptor population trajectories. The relationships between monetary policy, gold prices, and inflation. Or wind patterns on a southern Wisconsin lake.