see a puffin eat a fish

The world famous Sheldon Brown has passed on. I first stumbled across his website when I was learning about fixed gear bikes. He never did update his site’s ‘early web’ aesthetic but whenever you would search for any bike related web resources, he’d always be at the top of the fold on Google. Sheldon personally did a fixed gear convertion on my Merlin titanium with vertical dropouts and his wife, Hariet Fell was one of my favorite CS professors when I was an undergraduate at Northeastern.

“He was also well-known for patiently and thoroughly answering his 500 - 1000 daily emails.”

So long Sheldon, rest in peace.