CAMERAS

Today I discovered that taking pictures in bright sunlight with a camera phone is a very bad idea when the sun can easily glint off the display, so that you can see your own reflection better than the thing you're trying to photograph.  And having a camera phone which will switch from front to rear cameras with a light swipe on the screen will result in many pictures of your own scowling face -- not that you could see it at the time, due to the aforementioned sun-glinting-problems.

Technology.  Fun when it works.

Pronunciation

French pronunciation is seriously messed up.

Comment voyez-vous votre avenir, for example.

Sure, the first part is kohmon voyyay vooh, that's obvious.

But no way is votre avenir is  voh trav en eer.   It's clearly vohtruh veneer.  Clearly.

Argh.  Seriously messed up.

Talking

I have a new French conversation partner -- and she's a research physicist working in fluid dynamics!  Wow, this is going to be fun!