We saw Neil deGrasse Tyson last night at the Hult Center, where he gave a talk called “An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies”, and it was great. He’s a funny guy, and he treats his audience like the intelligent geeks we all are (seriously – we were surrounded by our people). If you ever get a chance to go see him, I say go.
It was a night out for us, so we got semi-dressed up, went out to dinner at the nicest restaurant within 4 blocks of our house (Oregon Electric Station, which used to be a train station, and is pretty darn nice, actually), and then walked the one additional block to the Hult Center.
Then we climbed four stories to our seats in the upper balcony.
No nosebleeds, but I was afraid to lean forward. The screen for his presentation was GIANT, which is a good thing because I couldn’t see him at all. He was a blur – my eyesight sucks. Although maybe everyone would have a problem seeing details at that distance.
Still, it was a good time, lots of laughter, lots of funny (and well-handled) heckler moments. His books are now on my To Read list (where they should have been before).