Maybe that doesn't make him an expert in heat transfer theory, but it has certainly gained him a lot of experience in the ways NOT to cool electronics. In those twenty years Tony has come to the conclusion that a lot of the common practices of electronics cooling are full of baloney. Tony has been collecting case studies of the wrong way to cool electronics, using them to educate the cooling masses, applying humor as the sugar to help the medicine go down. This advice column is an extension of that educational effort. Unlike Dear Abby, though, he won't necessarily limit himself to questions from actual people, but might resort to making some up to teach a lesson once in a while.
Engineers are sometimes too shy to share their embarrassing dumb questions in public.
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