Chris,
What I liked was... Hawai'i!
(the place, not the Michener novel). ;-)
The movie embarrassed me a little. That whole "religion" thing, at one point.
I had to squirm in the seat. I guess this was in the book, too, dunno. It was
a little dumb. It's a streak that I think
Sagan had.
I have also been a Radio-Astronomer, and lots in the movie was, well,
"Hollywood", despite the origin of the story being due to Sagan, a Planetary
Scientist. But, stories are stories!: overall it was a good one, I think.
Entertaining. I should read the book to be most fair to Sagan.
I still liked Hawai'i better. ;-}
And I got to spend a day with and have lunch with Aitken Roshi at his new house
on the fresh lava-flow! And his son Tom. And Danan Henry (who attended Roshi,
and cooked for all of us; Danan is now a Roshi: he finished his Koan study with
Aitken, after his previous Roshi passed away: Katagiri, I think). I was also
very pleased to be able to present to Aitken some documents pertaining to his
Grandfather, who was an extremely famous American Astronomer, and Director of
Lick Observatory (above San Jose, CA on Mt. Hamilton). Bob Aitken the Zen
master himself lived on Mt. Hamilton with his Grand Dad when he was 12, for
what he called "One school-year". All the Astronomers lived on the mountain in
those days (1930s), and it was almost a monastic situation. But they had a
school for the families' kids, a movie-house, etc. His Grandmother ran all
sorts of social events for the wives and all the families up there. All that's
changed.
I had just finished a two-week run up above with the Keck II Telescope on Mauna
Kea, biggest telescope in the world at the time, and took a couple weeks
vacation at or near sea-level. At first, all the oxygen put me to sleep, or
else it was the negative-ions in the air below, from the ocean. The exhaustion
from the observing contributed to the sense of "relaxation", too, to spin it
another way.
--Joe
> mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> >I once saw "Contact" in Hilo, Hawai'i.
>
> I hated the movie, but loved the book (Autumn leaves are beautiful
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