Forrest Mims fans, ask him questions on Slashdot.

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• GordonMcComb Posts: 3,366

  2013-12-17 13:54 edited 2013-12-17 13:54

  Didn't take long for the Creationist jabs to show up. Pity. Forrest is a stand up guy, and no one should be belittled because of their particular religious beliefs. Fortunately there seems to be some good questions in the mix.
• ctwardell Posts: 1,716

  2013-12-17 14:12 edited 2013-12-17 14:12

  I had both 'Engineers Notebooks'. I gave the pale blue one to a friend in high school, I still have the yellow one.
  
  Those books and my ELF II are what got me started.
  
  C.W.
• electromanj Posts: 270

  2013-12-17 15:58 edited 2013-12-17 15:58

  I'm a little dense. How does Slashdot work? Are all the questions asked in advance and then the replies are posted, or does this Q and A happen in real time?
  
  Thanks.
• Heater. Posts: 21,230

  2013-12-17 16:22 edited 2013-12-17 16:22

  You can post questions to that Slashdot thread. At some point in the future Forest will get a new thread in which he can post all the answers to the questions he chooses to answer.
  
  (Or do the answers come back in the same thread? I forget. Makes no odds though).
• erco Posts: 20,261

  2013-12-17 16:32 edited 2013-12-17 16:32

  Forrest Mims IS the man. I loved his Engineers Notebooks way back when you buy all the parts to build a radio at the Shack.
• RDL2004 Posts: 2,554

  2013-12-17 17:08 edited 2013-12-17 17:08

  I still have a bag of parts that Radio Shack actually once sold in a package with the Engineer's Mini-Notebook of op amp circuits.
• electromanj Posts: 270

  2013-12-17 17:35 edited 2013-12-17 17:35

  Thanks Heater.
• potatohead Posts: 10,261

  2013-12-17 18:20 edited 2013-12-17 18:20

  The questions will be curated by either Forrest or the /. team. He writes up his response, it gets posted in one or more parts depening on length and what he wants to do, and with each posting there is discussion in which he may partipate if he wants to do that.
  
  All the garbage over religion will just get left where it is, unless Forrest feels like he wants to respond.
  
  Answers in real time is Reddit AMA
• electromanj Posts: 270

  2013-12-17 18:24 edited 2013-12-17 18:24

  Question submitted.