Seamonsters and study
On Sunday we took it easy and devoted the day to cinema. First off we saw the Seamonsters 3D IMAX movie which was very impressive and then Resident Evil: Extinction which was OK, but was a bit of a montage of end-of-the-world movies, particularly Mad Max (the one with the bus). It didn’t help that watching an ordinary cinema screen straight after IMAX is a bit like going from a 50 inch flat screen HD TV to a 14 inch black and white. I don’t think we’ll be making that mistake again. We also went on the big wheel in Manchester city centre which was fab - it’s huge!! We had a great view over the city and I’d love to go back in the dark. I reckon it would be spectacular on bonfire night.
Yesterday was given over to serious things like studying my course and Mark was setting up new study materials for his students on Moodle. I learned a lot about marketing yesterday. I read most of the basic textbook that I bought to ’scene-set’ for the rest of the course. It’s a great book actually - I can’t fault it. It’s very easy to read and covers everything in enough detail to be meaningful but not so much that you yawn and fall asleep.