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It is Meat for $10! PriceSmart Deal

A friend of mine informed me that PriceSmart was having $10 deals on different type of meats, but I didn’t think I wanted to get any at the time, until I went there myself.  I also just want to give him credit becuase it was him who told me about them.

Anyways, I did go to the store last night and ended up getting steaks, ground beef and chicken.

Four steaks, packages in two.

2kg of ground beef for, you guessed it, $10.

5 pieces of Chicken (marinated or not)

Of course I just froze most of it, but not before packing stuff into individual packaging. Go out and get some for yourself.

I thought I left negativity!

Many years ago I tried to put all the negativity behind me and started to think more positively about things. That is not to say I don’t ever complain about things, nor do I mean I’m not occasionally a negative person, but I rather try and be positive.

I have been able to keep those who are extremely negative out of my life, even while working in Social Media, but that has changed.

Now negativity is infecting a space I once and still somewhat occupy and I’m not sure what to do about it.

The easy solution is to walk away and shut them out, but they maybe more difficult in this public world.

I will express more of my thoughts in a coming blog post and for now, I will continue to be the positive person.

…and offer solutions, rather than pointing out the problems.

5 Minutes with Mac OS X Lion

I have spent about 5 minutes with Lion so far. I’m not even on Lion writing this because I left it at the office, but I do quickly want to touch on a couple of the main feature, features which I don’t think I will use all that much.

Launch Pad

This is Apple’s way of making Mac OS X more iOSy, right? The idea is you press a button or the icon and a group of your apps shows up on-screen. This is not going to work for me. I don’t need it, next, boring, useless feature. I really don’t use that many apps when I’m on the computer. Maybe browser, mail, twitter client, marsedit, aperture, itunes, all which fit on my dock. To even go one step further, I have become accustom to using Spotlight to quick launch any app I need. Cmd + Spacebar, enter first 3 letter of app and hit enter (it learns what I want) to open. That process takes me less time than it would with opening Launchpad, finding app and clicking open.

Reverse Scrolling

This is the one feature I don’t really care about. I’m unsure why Apple is trying to reverse our habit of scrolling, maybe because they have some master plan or maybe because Steve Jobs just wanted to change the way we do things. Either way it is not a big burden on me, I simply just scroll up instead of down. I learn the new way, I move on.

Mission Control

Supposedly Mission Control is the combination of Expose, Spaces, All Window Display and a couple other older features together. First off, I have never really used Expose, mainly because I don’t really know what it does and secondly, I use to use Spaces, but found I hated it for some aspects, so I abandon it (I have two massive monitors at work, why do I need spaces). Really the only thing I seem myself using here is the ability to display all the open windows I have, but that is nothing new.

Mac OSX Lion

So those are the three features I briefly used in the 5 minutes I had to try out Lion. There are somethings I still need to check out and report on, like Mail and Full Screen Apps. I have a hunch those two might get used more than the others.

We will see. Have you played with Lion much, what are your thoughts?

I like to talk to myself!

[podcast]http://kylewith.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/testing_audio.mp3[/podcast]

There is a reason I don’t have many “in real life” friends and that reason is because I like to talk to myself.

Yes this morning I decided I wanted to finalize the set up of this audio monstrosity I have sitting on my office desk. So I turned on the Country station and pretended I was a lousy DJ. You have no idea the random joy I get from talking with myself.

In other news read this relevant Onion News article.

OS X Lion is out today

I could jump up and down in excitement that the latest Mac OS X is out (Operating System), but unfortunately I’m not. I’m a little sceptical as to how great it really is.

There is a lot that is change in terms of UI and I like the current way of doing things, so I don’t know how open I am to changing somethign I don’t think is broken.

I will admit it all looks really good and the price is unbeatable, so eventually I will upgrade, but I think I’m going to wait and see how other folks like it.

Mac OSX Lion

Thinking about it though, I do have three Macs, one being the MacBook Air. From what I am guessing the Air will benefit the most from this upgrade. It will make it more iPad-ish if you will.

If you happen to download it today, let me know what you think.