It's amazing I work for a company that doesn't own its own Coffee Maker. So I am forced to walk next door to the Corner Market and buy from them. This does give me the advantage of theorizing over the most diabolical coffee cup problem. No, not styrofoam that will exist for 1000 years in the dump, nor the chemicals used to make said cup, not even the chemical addiction that caffiene causes... no. But rather the conundrum of the seam.

When you're using one of those lids with the raised small sip lip, you inevitably attempt to take a drink only to have some of the coffee leak out from the spot where the lid and the seam meet forming an imperfect union. I leave the actual hard mathmatics of this up to someone else, but I've worked out some of the simpler stuff.

A lid and the top of the cup both are round and therefore have 360 degrees. The seam itself takes about 1% or 3 degrees of the cup, but the raised portion of the lid, the most upstable part, is more like 20% or 72 degrees. So you have a 1 in 5 chance of putting on the top and and having the seam be somewhere in the drip zone. Can someone please solve this problem that is causing real anqst for us all???

Read this post. And had a few words to say. Don't know if you might be interested. But if you weren't you wouldn't be reading this blog now would you?

Hey, if Boston can have the Big Dig, we can have the Giant Swamp. Take everything from Memorial Colliseum down to Ross Bridge and Oaks Amusement Park and return it to its natural state. Cause, heck that will look better than a bunch of concrete. Seriously, I haven't lived in Portland for a while. I actually moved to SoCal to escape the traffic mess and poor economic options. Anything that would revitalize the economy is good with me. Heck, we here in Nevada (I've moved again)have a 100,000 tons of Nuclear waste we'd be happy to send Portland's way along with all the promised economic benefits it will bring. What Portland is really missing, and the true cause of Oregon's economic slump, are two senators who really weild power in Washington. Hatfield and Packwood, for all their faults, were really good at bringing home the bacon. Our once strong ties to the cash pipeline that is Washington have been long severed (the same thing that is happening in Nevada, btw) and our chances at benefiting from the 'war budget' are slim to none. NIKE can only make so many shoes and jackets for our special forces and most of those jobs are going to China anyway. So would an eastside Giant Swamp... er Big Dig... be golden? Yes, of course. Could the traffic be managed? Sure, but not like described on the website. It will require big ugly concrete somewhere, just not within sight of the river.