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shadowkat1. Has anyone figured out how to delete apps from their ipad? If so please advise.
2. In attempting to provide the Momster with an online link to the last episode of Merlin, I screwed up her email. Yes, she took the damn survey in order to watch the episode. Still didn't get the episode, but did get a lot of bad spam email. Note to self - next time advise the Momster not to
take surveys and to ignore all ads associated with the links. For the non-computer savy, watching tv shows on the internet can be frustrating. I told her that SYFY HD delayed the show a week, hope this is true. And she can catch the first episode on Syfy HD on Friday. (Be a shame if she misses it, she loves Merlin.)
3. Reading reviews of the Buffy comics is entertaining, more entertaining then reading them was.
I honestly don't think Whedon is involved with the comics that much.
I've deleted half this post, am in an insanely snarky mood...
Currently between books. Am flirting with Master and the Margritta and Steve Healy's How I Became a Famous Novelist. Master and Margritta will probably be less annoying. So going with that. The other is basically a satire for the sake of satire, and those types of books tend to annoy me. They need to be a lot shorter than they are.
2. In attempting to provide the Momster with an online link to the last episode of Merlin, I screwed up her email. Yes, she took the damn survey in order to watch the episode. Still didn't get the episode, but did get a lot of bad spam email. Note to self - next time advise the Momster not to
take surveys and to ignore all ads associated with the links. For the non-computer savy, watching tv shows on the internet can be frustrating. I told her that SYFY HD delayed the show a week, hope this is true. And she can catch the first episode on Syfy HD on Friday. (Be a shame if she misses it, she loves Merlin.)
3. Reading reviews of the Buffy comics is entertaining, more entertaining then reading them was.
I honestly don't think Whedon is involved with the comics that much.
I've deleted half this post, am in an insanely snarky mood...
Currently between books. Am flirting with Master and the Margritta and Steve Healy's How I Became a Famous Novelist. Master and Margritta will probably be less annoying. So going with that. The other is basically a satire for the sake of satire, and those types of books tend to annoy me. They need to be a lot shorter than they are.
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Date: 2012-01-13 01:25 pm (UTC)Hee. The Momster. I'm actually pretty good at hunting and grabbing usable links. I just keep forgetting to give directions. (ie. NEVER respond to surveys and if you do? Use a false email address and provide no other info.)
Now I am wondering what happened to episode 1 on SyFy HD. It's like they didn't play it at all because I set it up to record every instance.
Look under your recording log on the DVR - it should tell you why an episode doesn't record. Often the "setup top" refuses to do it. This happened to me a lot in the fall and late summer. (Missed the Doctor Season Finale as a result, highly annoyed. Along with all it's repeats...)
I think it was caused by a glitch. I called, they fixed the communication signal, things seem to have worked more or less since then. The dang device is incredibly touchy...
And don't these silly cable stations usually replay new episodes to death over the week?
Inconsistently. Eureka gets multiple playings. Bad Syfy movies do. And so does Haven and whatever they have on after Merlin. But Merlin?
Apparently not. They just like to do insane marathons without any warning - where all of a sudden you end up with 20 Merlin episodes taped in a day while you're at work and have to come home and delete them because they've managed to overwhelm your DVR. With Merlin - you can't
DVR just "new episodes" because the DVR counts episodes airing on SYFY as repeats (original air date is the BBC airdate). So you can't win.
Stupid Syfy. It's just not DVR friendly.
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Date: 2012-01-13 01:37 pm (UTC)Right now, I am happy to DVR and all eps of Merlin just to see season 3 and 4 with captions. Luckily, season 3 is due on DVD in the next few weeks.
I am usually not taken by surprise when an unexpected marathon of a show happens, because I tend to check my "upcoming" recordings a lot to reassure myself something I want to see is in the queue.
Wish I'd been more careful about that with last week's 4.1 Merlin.