I met Bill Nye at a nightclub in Upper Queen Ann one night and while everyone else called him the science guy, I greeted him with " Hey, Speed Walker!" He actually smiled.
It wasn't Saturday night without Almost Live and the gang. Sure miss seeing and hearing the latest farces about life in Seattle. They could really use it these days.
For people not from the Seattle area Almost Live! would air at 11:30 pm Saturday night, the same time that most of the rest of the west coast would see SNL. But in Seattle SNL was delayed until midnight for the decade or so that Almost Live! aired in the Seattle area on Saturdays (it was originally a Sunday night show outside of prime time).
I thought the point of this was underwhelming experiments that were funny. This is where I first saw him and I love that someone was a comedian and a scientist.
Bill Nye came to my school when I was in 3rd grade and did a lot of these same experiments. This was a few years before he had the TV show. Honestly, this broadcast of Almost Live could have been the first time he was introduced as "the Science Guy" so that is probably why it was so "awkward" according to some of you. It wasn't as polished as the highly produced stuff you are use to seeing. Long Live Bill Nye!
People that give this guy flack for not being a 'real' scientist, shouldn't be the focus. The thing that he's done for an entire generation that goes under appreciated was he got people excited about science.
I love Bill Nye because rather than dumb it down, he explains it simply. He will tell you the scientific names and theories, but he'll EXPLAIN them rather than dumb them down. So you actually learn.
