Looking back, I've noticed that learning new words has considerably slowed down. Other than marmite, which is a food they put on toast/bread and a few other things, I can't think of any recent new words. I wonder if there's a whole new swell of new words coming or if I'm pretty much caught up? I suppose it'll be a few words here and there.
I saw a nice technology in a parking garage recently. When you pulled in, you didn't take a card, it took a picture of your license plate (which is "registration" here, which I guess is a new word/translation I've learned recently :) ). When you're ready to drive out of the garage, you type your license plate number into a machine and it looks up how long you've been there and charges you appropriately. Kinda nice, although it would be even better if it just automatically charged (and you didn't have to visit the machine at all).
I met another one of our neighbors in the elevator, he seemed very nice. Talk about an elevator pitch, we really didn't have more than 30 seconds to chat.
Since it's not too work-related, I'll mention that I enjoyed being a judge for the Chief Learning Officer awards this week. It's done online and when you're finished you receive a nice little graphic. The graphic is a badge that you could put on your resume or LinkedIn profile or something. It's very nice but I probably won't post it anywhere because I'd like to apply for more awards in the future and I think there would be confusion about when I'm judging and when I'm applying (CLO Magazine does a great job of separating those, by the way)
Still enjoying the Farnborough Air Show, most of the flying displays are in the late afternoon. I've noticed the traffic is quite light and I can't decide if that's because the attendance is low, or traffic control is that good, or maybe everyone comes on the weekend?
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