He’s Just Had Coffee

I was just reading “Don’t Try This At Home” in Wired and the article mentioned Forrest Mims III and I recalled, with delight, the many hours I spent as a teenager reading “Engineer’s Notebook 1″ (modern edition) and tinkering with circuit designs. The book not only fanned the flames of my obsession with electronics, it also planted the seeds of a lifelong love of grid-ruled paper!

Forrest turns out to be a ferociously independent citizen scientist in the American mold, who supports the teaching of intelligent design and strongly doubts Darwinian evolution.

I never gave much thought to the man behind the schematics I built. I wonder if anyone’s written a decent biography?

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