Don’t You Want the Beats?
After watching this Beats advertisement for the World Cup, don’t you want yourself a pair, even if the audio quality is supposedly not the greatest?
Audio fidelity aside, Beats produces compelling commercials.
Cocina = Ono
Crispy, crunchy, smokey – you can’t stop.
The menu isn’t complicated featuring a variety of tacos, but everything we tasted was great. Everything was flavorfully seasoned, but the secret is with the sauce pairing. Each taco comes with its own perfectly complementary sauce. The tacos are on the smaller side but are sufficiently filling.
If you want something heftier, definitely go with the Tortaguesa. Basically, it’s a burger, but oh what a burger it is. The sweet and spicy habanero sauce contrasts the earthy beef excellently. Do you dip the burger, pour the sauce on? No matter, just use it all up. The Tortaguesa was my favorite.
I’m not sure how often Cocina’s menu changes, but here’s a (blurry) shot of their current menu.
Check out Yelp for more reviews.
iTunes Nested Smart Playlists and iCloud Status Field
With the knowledge of how to create nested Smart Playlists in iTunes, how about using this along with the new-ish iCloud Status field. The goal is to find music stored locally on my small SSD drive but has a match in iCloud via iTunes Match. This way I can delete the local versions of the music and rely on iTunes Match to stream the very same songs.
Now how to construct the appropriate Smart Playlist…
Summer Shopping List
Summertime means cleaning, cooling, and tunes as seen in my recent Amazon shopping list.
Febreze Eureka Style Rr Replacement Vacuum Bag, 3-Pack
Lasko #2554 42-Inch Wind Curve Fan with Remote
Sennhesier MX685 Adidas Sports In-Ear Headphones – Black
Don’t forget that you can now use Twitter to shop on Amazon.
Morning Runs at Disney Aulani
The one benefit of the Disney Aulani fitness center being temporarily closed during my stay? Going out for morning runs and catching these sights.
Nesting iTunes Smart Playlist Rules
This just shows how much I use the features in iTunes. I only recently learned that you can “nest” rules when creating Smart Playlists. The default is to have and/or behavior represented by the Smart Playlist terms of “all” or “any.” But what if you want a Smart Playlist that follows any of a certain set of rules and all of another set of rules? You use the obscure nest feature of iTunes Smart Playlists.
You won’t visibly see the Nest feature by default, but while creating your Smart Playlist rules, hold down the Option key and the Add button becomes a Nest button. Who knew? And it’s not so obvious in the Apple support article.
Amenities in a Two-Bedroom Villa at Disney Aulani
If you’re staying in a two-bedroom villa at the Disney Aulani, don’t worry, it’s fully stocked with amenities. Featuring a full kitchen and a washer and dryer, the accommodations comes with all the necessities you need. Take a look.
And yes, the villas includes daily room cleaning and turndown. Down the hall, you can dump your trash and recyclables. If you bring your own food, the villa is a great option for families.
LEGO Ghostbusters
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! But a limited set so buy now if you’re interested.
Communicating Is Hard
Communicating is one of those easier-said-than-done things, especially for big businesses like the Disney Aulani resort. Making sure every employee is on the same page and knows the very latest is just too hard. Case in point, while staycation-ing at the Aulani, I wanted to work out in the fitness center on a Saturday night. The daily calendar said the Mikimiki Fitness Center was closed whereas it had been a 24-hour operation previously.
I called the front desk to ask about this and was told the fitness center was being remodeled and that it had temporarily moved to the conference rooms. I asked if it was open and was assured the relocated fitness center was open. So I headed to the conference rooms. There was a wedding going on in the main conference room (good choice of music by the way, hearing John Legend’s All of Me remix and Animals by Martin Garrix) as I wandered around looking for the fitness center. Then I saw this sign.
Confused, I asked a worker where the fitness center was since the above sign said it was closed. He replied that all the equipment had just moved back to its original location and suggested I head back to the Mikimiki Fitness Center. At this point, a full day of sun and swimming caught up with me, feeling too drained to work out.
Fast forward to Monday, May 26. The daily calendar announces the re-opening of the Mikimiki Fitness Center starting at 4am. No, I didn’t venture out for a workout at four in the morning, but I did stop by later in the day to see what changed.
After stepping inside the previously sealed doors, things looked exactly the same as the last time I was there.
I didn’t see any significant changes to the room itself so I’m not sure what the remodeling was all about. All I know is that getting a workout on Memorial Day weekend at the Aulani was not meant to be and that communicating the status (and whereabouts) of the fitness center to the entire staff is just too hard.
I’m with the BitBand
For real, I am with the Atlassian BitBand. Check out my swag for proof.
Yup, thanks to Atlassian’s sense of humor, I won this Git shirt along with a BitBand band as part of an April Fool’s giveaway. Back on April 1st, the software company announced a hardware product, the BitBand. If you followed the press announcement and attempted to fund their hardware project, you would have found the giveaway entry form. Luckily, I won some Git goodies. The front of the shirt says “Just Do Git.”
Thanks Atlassian (but stick with the software)!
So Tempted
A Slurpee-branded mousepad for only $1. So tempted to buy it even though I don’t have a mouse.
