Jason C. Cole

@theduckmachine.bsky.social

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Crystallographer, Software hacker and cricket lover. As is probably evident from my handle, I enjoy batting but I'm not very good at it. Views are my own.

A pointless gate, since there is no fence around it
View of the women's T20 between England and New Zealand from the Lock Balcony at the oval
Mr Cricket Hockey sponsor my cricket team in Fen Ditton. They are a great place for cricket and hockey gear
A neat and tidy garden
A cartoon of mummy pig asking whether the doctor can cure Peppa Pig. The doctor replies of course and takes Peppa to the curing room. Afterwards, he presents mummy pig with some cured ham.
An image that looks like a ghost ship bearing down on a smaller schooner. It looks drawn but is intact just a random thing that appeared in my yoghurt bowl after I'd eaten it this morning
A set of options for an appointment that are all identical, Hobson's choice.
Pakistan fan unimpressed
Summary of Scotland showing it's population as 5.5 Billion rather than 5.5 Million
Massive waves battering Teignmouth pier
Photo of a halo moon
An advent calendar that is based on the bad guy Hans Grüber from die hard plummeting to earth. Set to the 1st of December.
Matt Cartoon, where old age pensioners are protesting against the rise in retirement age saying "What do we want? Why did we come here? What were we saying?*
Amazon advertising "Shop Knob cheese" .. wide range of Knob cheese. Deals every day for your kitchen and home Free UK delivery on eligible orders!
Score showing a tie between Fen Ditton CC Midweek XI and Stapleford Phoenix 2nd XI
I glass jug hand engraved with an image of a black Labrador.
A picture of the Christmas 'topper' on our local post office post box.
Image of Virgin Media offering episodes 1-5 of a series and episode 10, but not episodes 6-9...
XKCD comic strip that highlights how all modern digital infrastructure is reliant on rather unstable foundations
A bus being parked. Taken from https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/parking
Bluesky user count, now over 16,000,000
Text shot from the paper that references a bunch of papers but says they are irrelevant
Screen shot of what a headline now says for the same story, namely Justin Welby steps down after a report into a child abuser associated with the Church of England
A glorious image of a rolled pork joint cooked and ready to eat.
Image of the Iucr web site showing the number of reads of the crystal structure prediction blind test paper, featuring the number of reads (in excess of 3000)
A coffee with a rather unique pattern on the top ...
Picture of J. Appl. Cryst. currently featuring our API paper
A moth that had a 4cm long body
Lovely sunset
Badrhino coat with antitheft tag in
A photo of the river Nidd and famous train viaduct crossing it.
An image saying "Tell us a true one-sentence story from your life that absolutely opens more questions than it answers and demands further context"
Boxhill at the National Railways Museum
The Mallard at the National Railways Museum in York