Hobbies
Playing With Electricity – Part 3
“Your nose will grow…” I’m sure that we can all recall some of these admonitions from our youth: “Keep looking like that and your face will stick!” – Why? To what? Surely that isn’t in [more…]
Doc Mike Finnley
Hobbies
Playing With Electricity – Part 2
T.I.B Or Not To T.I.B? PersonX: “Doc, can you just have a look at the vacuum cleaner it’s making a funny noise?” Doc: “Err…well..err…you see I’ve got…err…an appointment with the dentist…” PersonX: “There’s no mention [more…]
Hobbies
Playing With Electricity – Part 1
Sponsored Introduction – SPAD Report Sir Montague Snoddgrass KC the special advisor to the Prime Minister’s Secretary’s budgie, Fred, has replaced his cleaner with a newer model. The old one, Elsie Dustall sucked-up one of [more…]
Fiction
The Ghost Of Peabody Manor
Introduction This podcast was meant for Halloween, so much for that after the Doc managed to do his back and legs in and ended up in bed for nearly a month. I hope that you’re [more…]
Engineering
The Helium-Neon Laser
Introduction In my laser articles Iv’e often mentioned the helium-neon (He-Ne) laser which I have used to align the feedback mirrors and make holograms. I thought that it would be remiss of me not to [more…]
Hobbies
Escaping The 8118
Introduction Every Autumn/winter my primary school would drag (probably more true than I care to think about these days) me to the local swimming pool. Understandable as it was indoors and heated. I hated it. [more…]
Fiction
The Dragon Of Peabody Manor
It was a dark and stormy night, suddenly there was a knock at the door. Well that’s how childish stories usually start. For our little podcast I’ll try and go more silly. Welcome to Peabody [more…]
Fiction
Christmas With Admiral Peabody
Introduction Well everyone, we’re rapidly approaching a new year as the winter months close in. I hope your 2023 has been better than mine. Let’s lighten the mood at least a little. I thought I’d [more…]
Computing
The Slide Rule – Part 2
photo: featured_image.jpg Introduction Note: This article uses Mathjax script. Some script blocking web-browser plugins can prevent the mathematics from been rendered correctly. DM In the first part we looked at how to make a simple [more…]