Hmm. Well, ok, so I'm not actually going up against the internets or anything. The title of today's post is simple a clever, clever play on the Scott Pilgrim movie title. *shifty eyes* What? I am to clever. *pout*
But anywho, the main point here is to say that I saw "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" last week and quite enjoyed it. I'm not going to get into too many specifics at the moment since you really should go out and see it - if you like comics and/or games you'll probably enjoy it - I'm just going to limit my comments to one or two things that I particularly liked.
Visually, I really liked the comic book style sound effects that they used and think they really worked well. In a way, it's kind of like the old 60s Batman show (at least I think it was from the 60s, that was before my time) but obviously much better integrated to the point where it just seemed natural.
Some of the video game references were also quite good, some audio as well as visual - some Legend of Zelda music plays briefly during the opening scene. Fun stuff.
The movie also has a lot of Canadian content. It's based on a comic book by a Canadian author, set and filmed in Toronto, has at least some Canadian actors and also has some close-ups of Canadian coinage, among other things.
I am certainly quite interested in getting the original comics now, so that's something I'll have to look into.
It seems I've been babbling on for long enough now so I think I'll take the opportunity to sign out.
Oh, by the way, also google "Scott Pilgrim vs the Animation" - it's not a spoiler for the movie (but is related to it) so it's safe to look up even if you haven't seen the movie yet.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
Friday, August 27, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Marking Sucks
So, after not having posted in a while, I return to complain about being a TA! Excitement! Well, there are a few other details, but first with the complaining!
For the course that I'm TAing this term, the people in charge decided that each TA would mark an entire assignment, by themselves. Thus I have found myself, over this long weekend, spending a lot of time marking assignments which really sucks. As I've no doubt mentioned before, marking is generally boring and this assignment has been really painful to mark. First, the course material is not in my area of interest (thus I don't particularly care for it much) and second, most of the questions are actually hard to mark because they're the sort of thing where one has to try and follow the student's train of thought which is not always easy, especially since I do try to figure out what the students are trying to do and give part-marks rather than just put in a big X when something's wrong.
On the plus side, since I only mark one assignment it means I haven't had to do TA work for most of the term (besides the midterm), but I honestly think this is too much for one person to do in any reasonable amount of time and I think I'd prefer having the pain spread out a bit. Having each TA do half the marking for two assignments would, I think, be a better arrangement.
In less complainy news, I discovered a new recipe last night! Its from the (now much abused) cook book that I've had for ages and is a recipe for hamburger-vegetable soup. It turned out quite tastey and is definitely going on my will-make-again list.
I also managed to sneak in a little bit of work on the QRT project this weekend despite the marking (and some FASS work today), which I really must write about in more detail sometime, and not just because I said I would about a year ago and never did.
Well, that's all for the present.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
For the course that I'm TAing this term, the people in charge decided that each TA would mark an entire assignment, by themselves. Thus I have found myself, over this long weekend, spending a lot of time marking assignments which really sucks. As I've no doubt mentioned before, marking is generally boring and this assignment has been really painful to mark. First, the course material is not in my area of interest (thus I don't particularly care for it much) and second, most of the questions are actually hard to mark because they're the sort of thing where one has to try and follow the student's train of thought which is not always easy, especially since I do try to figure out what the students are trying to do and give part-marks rather than just put in a big X when something's wrong.
On the plus side, since I only mark one assignment it means I haven't had to do TA work for most of the term (besides the midterm), but I honestly think this is too much for one person to do in any reasonable amount of time and I think I'd prefer having the pain spread out a bit. Having each TA do half the marking for two assignments would, I think, be a better arrangement.
In less complainy news, I discovered a new recipe last night! Its from the (now much abused) cook book that I've had for ages and is a recipe for hamburger-vegetable soup. It turned out quite tastey and is definitely going on my will-make-again list.
I also managed to sneak in a little bit of work on the QRT project this weekend despite the marking (and some FASS work today), which I really must write about in more detail sometime, and not just because I said I would about a year ago and never did.
Well, that's all for the present.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
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