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4 comments

  1. Anyone watching the Champions League this week?

    I was disappointed to see Arsenal go out, but PSG deserved the win.

    Anyway Inter-Barcelona was an absolute classic….I don’t really like Inter but I hope now that they can win in the final.

  2. I have a bit of a burning question this morning before I even had breakfast. 

    Is the Swiss Guard in front of the Sistine Chapel actually Swiss? Why are they Swiss? How do you become one? Do they really only have halberds as a weapon or do they have other arms where we can’t see them 👀 does anyone know?

  3. I found [this toy accordion](https://imgur.com/2ri5Fgo) at a flea market for 4,50€ and accidentally bought it. It’s made of mostly cardboard and some tin, I don’t know how old it is, but it’s pretty interesting. It works kinda like a harmonica, where air going one way makes one sound and it going the other way makes another. Basically when you pull out the keys sound notes from an A9 chord and when you push in it sounds notes from a D major chord, meaning if you press all the keys and then pull out and push back in it’s a dominant chord going to a tonic chord, the most basic of musical structures. It’s actually pretty nice for a toy to do that, if you gave this to a kid they’d always automatically sound good. Great for the parents who have to listen to it.

    I don’t know what I’m going to do with it, though. Maybe give it to my niece, but she recently started piano classes, I think this might be a bit too basic for her.

  4. A Finnish ice hockey player Mikko Rantanen has been having an amazing time in the NHL playoffs, hat tricks in two consecutive games now. I was watching some American sports media people talk about it, and when Americans pronounce the name Rantanen the a-sounds they make sound more like the Finnish ä-sound than the Finnish a-sound. In his name *ranta* means “beach” (with -*nen* being just and ending that’s commonly used in surnames), but *räntä* has a completely different meaning, it’s the word for “sleet”, i.e. wet snow. Rantanen or Räntänen, huge difference.

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