Out last night to see Leveret at Band on the Wall.

It must have been a good gig. I woke up the next morning and found I'd bought a 120-page tunebook containing nothing but 3/2 hornpipes.

DON'T YOU OPEN THAT TRAP DOOR! You're a fool if you dare.

Someone else had the same idea

Another instalment in the continuing series of "palaeontologists of the future won't have a clue what this animal looked like"

Here's how a baboon skeleton might be interpreted by paleoartists who had never seen one pic.twitter.com/4Q6LvyIPzd

— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) September 22, 2017

And another:

Paleoartists tend to "under-feather" drawings of dinosaurs based on fossils. Here's how swans would look if given the same treatment. pic.twitter.com/y9Hg9BVFd9

— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) September 22, 2017

Here's the article:

The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art

See translation? Okay then, Facebook...

The Companion

Finished reading: The Companion by Sarah Dunnakey 📚

I really enjoyed The Companion. I'm trying to write some kind of a review; this is what I've got so far. No spoilers here, I think, but I will refer to some minor plot points.

I like the multiple time frames. I've got to admit, I find it hard to remember names at the best of times, so I did occasionally struggle to recall who some of the minor characters were as the book zips between past and present. But that's my problem.

Anna's story is partly a hymn in praise of archivists. She unravels the mystery of what happened at High Hob by patiently trawling through papers, diaries and audio recordings. Cataloguing, consent forms, making presentations to the board: this makes it sound like the book might be a bit of a quiet read, but Billy's chapters, in contrast, are full of action and dynamism. A mood of awful apprehension grows as Anna uncovers the details, building up to a sequence of grim revelations and reversals, some half-expected but still shocking, as Billy's story reaches its climax.

Ultimately it is about loss of innocence: young people coming to realise that the adult world is often sordid and dishonest; and the consequences our actions have on future generations.

Google's style guide for developer documentation:

Google developer documentation style guide

I see data is a mass noun (singular), as I would have expected.

Two of my tunes :-)