Aug 30, 2010 Product Review
Last week while I was watching TV my Time Warner DVR shut down and started another software update. It was annoying that I wasn’t given the choice to wait, since I was in the middle of a show – just because it’s two in the morning doesn’t mean that everyone is asleep – but whatever. After it was done and the system rebooted I tried it out. I was eager to see the changes, because after the last Mystro update there were some huge ones. But it’s been about a week and so far I’ve only discovered one obvious change: a new fast forward and rewind speed has been added, 4, and it is quite fast. Hitting play still makes it go back too far, but at least it doesn’t take so long to get through commercial breaks anymore.
Anyone notice anything else? It is of course quite possible that the update had more to do with how the system runs than with features that a normal user would notice (since there’s no indication after it’s over that any update took place, who knows how often they happen), but if there are new features I’d like to know what they are instead of accidentally finding them two months from now. So if you’ve found any other differences please add them in the comments.
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Aug 30, 2010 Blog & Social Media Stuff
It’s usually harder than this to pinpoint the origins of internet death hoax rumors, but the Emmy Awards made it easy last night.
In the little pre-commercial preview of the “In Memoriam” segment this image was flashed:
And sure enough, Twitter lit up with “OMG Fred Savage Died?” tweets. Of course, it was revealed in the actual segment that that was a very young Corey Haim, who did die earlier this year, not Fred Savage, who is alive and well and directing episodes of all of the tween shows my kids torture me with. But my goodness it did look like little Kevin Arnold.
So that’s the end of it, right? They showed the name with the picture and the rumors were quashed. But no, this morning rumors are flying that Fred Savage died in a drunk driving accident. It appears that this rumor is not new, but was resurrected by fans googling for info.
Fred Savage is not dead. But really Academy, you couldn’t have picked a clip that actually looked like Corey Haim? He did several TV series, there must have been other clips to choose from.
Originally posted on Selfish Mom. All opinions expressed on this website come straight from Amy unless otherwise noted. Please visit Amy’s Full Disclosure page for more information. Amy also blogs at Filming In Brooklyn, Behind the Screen, Momtourage, and podcasts with The Blogging Angels.
