Hey is there any chance you could add Markdown parsing? It is pretty much the de facto standard these days.

During my readings I came across this old drinking game: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Notes_and_Queries_-_Series_11_-_Volume_6.djvu/63 The editor thinks that it is not even certain to what sense of " nail " the phrase belongs, whether the human nail or the metallic n'ail. He has placed the ph...

It's an oft-quoted fact(?) about Borges, "He read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A-Z", purportedly having a great influence on his writing. I guess it's probably true since he sounds like an encyclopedia. I used to read encyclopedias as a kid, actually... I still do, albeit Wikipedia. Opening a d...

Today I'm making spaghetti alla vongole. With clams and mussels, Italian wine and spaghetti al nero di sepia.

Goal: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.giall ... ngole/amp/

I have a bottle of Greco di Tufo to go with it.

Is any of it actually 'realistic' though? It seems more a fantasy of violence than an actual representation thereof - as watching any unedited video of the situation in Ukraine would quickly reveal.

It's an oft-quoted fact(?) about Borges, "He read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A-Z", purportedly having a great influence on his writing. I guess it's probably true since he sounds like an encyclopedia. I used to read encyclopedias as a kid, actually... I still do, albeit Wikipedia. Opening a d...

I still read but a lot less since the New World Order, Illuminati, George Soros, Billy G and Hilary Clinton conspired to create social media and smartphones to destroy my attention span in order to accept a diet of bugs and Soylent Green. I spent a year doing long train journeys in 2009 pre-smartpho...

Now, now, according to legend, some Baron married into the Chandon family came to Argentina in the 50s and, upon noticing that Argentineans pumped sparkling water into their wine on a regular basis, decided the land was ideal for a champagne industry and established in Argentina Chandon's first sub...

Personally I like to think I like stinky cheeses, though I do remember tasting one in France that tasted like fish and was revolting. I noticed in Argentina that - without the French laws on protected designation of origins that they then forced on the rest of Europe through the EU - what is called...

I do make split pea soup In England it is quite common to put mint in pea soup which produces a clement contrast of flavours though like you I nearly always have it with bacon. Another soup that I guess counts as vegetarian though not vegan is stilon and brocoli soup, one of my winter favourites - ...