Reply #10: Oh man, I haven't thought about Forrest Mims for a long time... [View All]

[hunter]

But I still have a stack of his books amidst my treasures.

I was a childhood electronics genius, and he was like a god to me. Electronics was my life until my first two years in college. I wanted to be a television engineer. Then I noticed there were fewer and fewer women in my classes, so I changed my major to Biology. (Ahh, the whims of a young man.) Then I started taking evolutionary biology classes, and paleontology classes...

Poor Forrest Mims... as he lay bloody and battered on the highways of Reality, I passed him by... and threw salt in his wounds. I wasn't the only one.



Prime Dry Salted Codfish. Poor Forrest Mims. I went to Google Groups, but I was afraid, too afraid.