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Fri, 20 Jul 2007

Salt Lake City Tap Water Rated #1
By way of my wife Kristy, it has been (unscientifically) determined that Salt Lake City has the best tap water in the nation.

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19865855/

    Take a sip! America's best tap water
    Salt Lake City's is the winner, followed by Boston and Columbia, S.C.

    By Mike Celizic
    Updated: 8:39 a.m. PT July 20, 2007

    Its namesake lake may be saltier than the ocean, but, according to two wine-tasting experts, Salt Lake City's tap water is, in a word, "delicious."

    "Viscous, thick and rich," was how professional wine taster David Lynch described the water to TODAY co-hosts Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer.

    "Nonflawed, clean and delicious," added his colleague, Joe Bastianich.

    [more]

Kristy grew up in San Diego. Ever since we started dating I have been complaining about the poor quality of the tap water at her home. It is absolutely terrible stuff... I won't drink it. The in-laws think I'm a bit "off" with my apparent pre-occupation with drinking water quality (hey... I'm a Civil Engineer by training... what do you expect!) and have probably long since grown tired of me standing on my soapbox and preaching about poor tasting drinking water in SoCal and the brilliant tasting stuff in Salt Lake City (where I grew up). So, this is a small vindication... I think I shall print it out, take it down to San Diego this Thanksgiving, and post it on the Sorenson kitchen refrigerator!

:: Posted by rus on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:51 pm
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007

Geeks Make Great Husbands
Via slashdot today:

"SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far nothing noteworthy has comeout of this massive project... that is until today! One of the volunteers was able to track down his wife's stolen laptop using the IP address that SETI@home client reports back to the server. After getting back the laptop his wife said, 'I always knew that a geek would make a great husband.'"

:: Posted by rus on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 1:14 pm
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Tue, 27 Jun 2006

Channel Swim Redux
My friend Dave is attempting another channel cross in August. Here is a news story about some of the training he is doing leading up to the event. I was talking to Dave about his regimen. It is not uncommon for him to swim 5+ miles on a workout day during a 2+ hour workout. By contrast, my longest swim workouts clock in around half an hour. I swim about a mile (at most). I'm in awe of his commitment.

:: Posted by rus on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:49 pm
:: Filed under /links/news


 
Thu, 18 Aug 2005

Dave/Richard Barnes Channel Swim in the Media
Two weeks after their channel swim, my friend Dave Barnes and his brother Richard are getting some cycles in the media; see Deseret News and KSL. My archived copies of the original KTVX newscasts are still available: see here and here.

On a personal note, Dave has inspired me to start swimming again. I've been swimming about ½ to ¾ mile (in 70° water) every morning this week.

(Update Sat Dec 22 02:52:44 PST 2007 // changed link location to videos)

:: Posted by rus on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:17 am
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