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Peter Flynn
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Documents, markup, typesetting • Writer • Grandfather • Cook • Pronoun: he/him/us’n • Bribable with chocolate • Discord: frisket • Recipes: https://xml.silmaril.ie/recipes/ ☘️ 🇮🇪
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October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Guilty as charged, m'lud. But I inherited the job of family tree keeper from my grandmother (as in "I'm nominating you to do this after I'm gone, OK?") And yes, "auntie" and "uncle" are the defaults for anyone older than you who is not your parent or grandparent.
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Well, we've finished the church but we seem to have an altar left over."

"I know, stick it outside and make it into a ping-pong table."

(There are also two chess tables. Ballyroan church, Dublin)
October 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Southern states US people: are these seasonings anywhere near what they claim to be? Or just pale UK imitations of the Taste of The South™? (Ingredients in alt text, in descending order of quantity by weight).
October 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
And the other one from the same source of perversion is a [UK] iced bun (see pic) split sideways and spread thickly with butter and Marmite, then closed as a sandwich.
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Kids called this "bugs on a log"
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Shakespeare's sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" in the original Klingon, as a TEI XML document, typeset with LaTeX (showing the markup).
xml.silmaril.ie/sonnet18/son...
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Worse, even if you complete it, and the captchas, you get an error message (complete with spelling error).
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Duckduckgo seems still to answer the question but the sources are questionable.
October 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Also, that when they get given some source in .docx format, a couple of piped commands can turn it into TEI paras without even having to write any XSLT :-)

$ unzip -p myfile.docx word/document.xml | lxprintf -e w:p "<p rend=\"%s %s\">%s</p>\n" w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val w:pPr/w:jc/@w:val . - >myfile.xml
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anyone know what this was for? I mean I know the French words "prune" and "piège", and I'm aware of fruit-tree pest traps, but this is in the style and size of a decanter label. A pharmacist's poison label? Online searches return nothing, and I don't have a French thesaurus.
September 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Red Cow, Dublin. There used to be a pub in there once.
September 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I'm happy to hear ILL still exists and works. I have a recipe written by a friend on the back of a BL Telex Request form 🤣 which probably dates both me and the recipe.
September 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Or here (the kids called this "bugs on a log")
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a start, but to see what we're up against, we need to look at the whole picture.
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I saved it to disk and it looks like a JPG (JFIF), so I add it here with alt text. Let's see...
September 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Yep, stops it dead.
September 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
FFS. This is on a medical appointment letter for an elderly patient from the UK's NHS. Utter dereliction of duty of care because the service has been stripped of funding in preparation for its sell-off to Big Med and Big Pharma, and is being run by misguided administrators.
September 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Let’s see you at 21.

There mercifully no other photographs from this era.
August 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Prompted by this (thank you @kavey.bsky.social) I did a search for Indonesian restaurants locally. DuckDuckGo gave me a pizza joint, a burger bar, and…a nursery school FFS. Google did at least return the sole Malay restaurant in my city. I don't know what drugs the DDG search engine is on.
August 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
WTF? kiro7.com not available outside the US. What are these people afraid of?
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Spelchk happens
August 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
@kavey.bsky.social Brixham Crab mayonnaise salad at Otterton Mill
August 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This week's Scrabble™ hand
August 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
@sh-discoverycentre.bsky.social Can you please help? This is a family photograph from 1954 and I think it's Pole Bank, Long Mynd. A recent picture from the web shows a concrete monolith but it seems to be a slightly different shape.
August 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM