So we have come to the end of the first half of year 2021 AD. The last month has been quite exciting with all the thrilling matches in the UEFA European Championships in football for national teams. That competition has now arrived at the quarter-final stage and is taking a break until Friday 183’2021 (2021-07-02) before its four games will be played on that and the following day.
I am also taking a small break in my blog posting, but promise to be back very soon with new, interesting topics.
In a society that does not seem to be interested in protecting their citizens against lethal dangers, which is the new trend? Instead of using the year 2021, they keep on insisting to still use 2020, as if it did not already exist. Currently, there are at least three big sporting events that were cancelled in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that just happened or are about to happen, and which keep 2020 in the name.
Please look at the following image. More information about the events can be found in references # 1, 2, and 3 below.
Three sporting events held in 2021, all with 2020 in their names, from left to right: The first one is from the European Aquatics Championships, which were held in Budapest earlier this month. The second one is the European Championships in Football, to be held in June and July in various countries over Europe, and the last one is from the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, scheduled to start on July 23, 2021.
We have experienced yet another interesting month in our lives, and what follows below is of course only a small portion of what I really wanted to publish.
Complement to my post about Vasaloppet
In my post of 87’2021 (2021-03-28) , I wrote about the traditional ski race Vasaloppet. It starts in the town of Sälen and ends in Mora, 90 km away. One of my faithful readers sent me a nice picture from the same Sälen, where he recently enjoyed a different kind of skiing, going downhill. You can see it here, taken at the peak Hundfjället (“Dog mountain”).
Hundfjället is a popular ski resort in the Swedish town of Sälen, province of Dalarna, close to the Norwegian border.
Making it easier to deal with the proposed numbering of days
In my post of 9’2021 (2021-01-09) , I suggested that we started to think about a new, unified way of writing dates, abolishing the months and changing to a sequential count of the days in the year.
Many people have expressed their support of the proposed scheme, but raise doubts about how we more easily can get used to it. Therefore, here is one way, turning the cell phone’s lockscreen into a monthly calendar, with both the current and the proposed day count and making it also function as a communications tool between peoples and languages.
This is an example of what I write above, and which also helps Swedes and Brazilians to know the holidays in each other’s countries. It is meant for the lockscreen of an iPhone SE with 640 x 1136 pixels, but can easily be adapted to any cell phone by anyone with a little patience and imagination. The picture at the bottom was taken last week in the Southern Swedish city of Lund, with its well-known university in the background. It shows how Spring is invading Sweden from the South. Thanks to my friend Eva Pulverer for her delightful participation!
What did you learn in School today? 