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G: May the 4th be with you!
We went wth Dave to Sonar in Baltimore Thursday night to see They
Might Be Giants. Dave had us get there an hour before the doors opened
so we got right up front and we each got a free giant foam hand that
says They Might Be Giants on it. John didn't like it up front so he
went to the back and ran into Greykell, her daughter Kat, Neva, and
Kevin. They sent Kat to the front into John's spot. She screamed a lot.
It was a pretty good show, but the vocals were too low or muddy.
The next night we met D-Dave (my college friend) at the Vegetable
Garden, Lori met us there too. We had a nice dinner and then I got on
the metro with Dave and we went back to Woodley Park. He shared some of
his pecan cookies from Sticky Fingers
and they were fantastic. We walked around Adams Morgan, had a drink and
played Galaga in Asylum, but mostly just walked by stores and
restaurants looking in.
I took a clay workshop this weekend and had a great time. There are
some pictures of things I made (plates and other things).
The ones on
this page are from the potluck we had (and the concert).
On Saturday evening D-Dave came over to spend the rest of the
weekend with us, and we took him to Jake's birthday gaming party. I
lost every game I played, except for one round of Loopin' Louie.
Here's another wacky theory, inspired by my good friend Leo. As the
population of trees in an area decreases, the pollen counts in that
area will paradoxically increase. The fractal nature of tree surfaces
increase the probability that pollen in the air will find something to
stick to. In a heavily wooded area more pollen is produced, but the
same trees that create the pollen also scrub the air clean. In
addition, dense vegetation increases humidity which further traps and
slows airborne pollen. Furthermore, areas that have fewer trees are
often invaded by grasses (and lawn mowers), which produce lots of
pollen and are inefficient — compared to trees — at
scrubbing the air. And finally, trees use carbon dioxide and produce
lots of oxygen, diluting the available CO2 in the air. As CO2 levels
increase due to pollution and deforestation, the trees that are left
will use that
CO2 to make more pollen in a last ditch effort to increase their
numbers.
I expect that as the number of trees diminishes around here, pollen
counts will trend upward until a "sweet spot" is hit, then decline as
grassy lawns are replaced by more parking lots, malls, and bigger
houses, all of which perform terribly when it comes to cleaning the air
or producing pollen.