So I was drinking a Hi-C tonight, and Nien (being as noise conscious as he is) pointed out that there was this annoying slurpy/bubbly sound when I used the straw. Since I'm always wanting to know the answer to stuff, I thought about it a sec, and hypothesized that maybe it had something to do with the pointy/slanted way the straw tip was cut. I thought maybe when you sucked, it created like a funky fluid/air pressure system oscillation or something like that. Hah, yea, how typical of an aerospacer to blame everything on quirky fluid dynamics, huh? Well, I guess the reason I immediately jumped to that conclusion was that I was looking at the pictures from the Earth as Art exhibit, and I had the picture of the Karman Vortices (of South America) fresh on my mind. Ok, but yea, anyways, turns out the answer was much simpler than that; the new extending straw design lets air leak in when you suck... easy as that. Eh, oh well, thought I mighta been on to something for a sec.

*Hey, check out Bookcrossing.com; the idea is that people read books and are so touched that they wanna share the experience, so they leave 'em around for other people to find, who in turn will read and then leave 'em for others, who read & leave 'em, ad infinitum. Sounds like so much fun; man, I wanna find a book! =)