Whoever said water tastes like nothing?

Ever wonder what's in your tap water? Visit the National Tap Water Quality Database. You'll find out some weird, weird things.

For instance... the Maximum Contaminant Limit Goal (MCLG) for lead content is 15ppb (parts per billion). In California, the MCLG for lead is 2ppb. My hometown tap water has been tested, at average, 6.67 ppb.

Hey, not so bad.

The MCLG for arsenic is 0.02 ppb. My home tap water levels? Oh, averaging about 2.96 ppb. That's only about 148 times the contaminant limit. Don't get me started on the levels of radon, bromodichloromethane, and dibromochloromethane which have exceeded health limits.

Did you know that the health limits, the very minimum limits to not cause vast harm to the human body aren't the legal limits? Nope, the legal limits are much higher, so you can be pumping out dangerous, contaminated water and not get fined or shut down for it. That's good to know.

And a great thing about Watertown? They have won Wisconsin's "Best Tap Water" contest many years in a row. This is such a prestige that Pepsi built a bottling plant here, so it's not just Watertown residents who get this great, high quality water, but million of others throughout the midwest distribution center. Next time your suckling down a Pepsi product, check where it was bottled. It might have come from my hometown.

With unhealthy, but totally legal arsenic levels.

(x-posted to thelunarsociety)

What did we do baby, without us? Sha la la la...

I need different categories for weird dreams. Because I'm tempted to say this was the weirdest dream ever, but I've said that before. Anyways, it was weird. And a bit disturbing.

The entire cast of Family Ties. Not just the main characters, but every extra they ever had, were at a sort of outdoor camping retreat. It was dark out, there was a large fire, somewhere between a camp fire and a bon fire. They were having a massive orgy.

When they got done fucking, they started pairing off for those therapeutic role-playing exercises, wherein they were pretending to be each other’s shadows and saying the most hurtful things and mocking each other viciously. Then I woke up.

I don't even begin to know where to start with this one. Weird.

...in which I become who I am and shed who I am not.

When I started this Journal, I filled out all the requisite information, and when I put my username I thought it was just a log-in name. I didn't realize it was the name by which I would be forever known in the land of LiveJournal.

Over the past year and a half that I've gotten to know you all as fnord777, meanwhile thinking what other, more original name I could use. Finally, I think I have it.

Later today or tomorrow, I will use my Rename Token to change my username to jackshoegazer.

Apparently everything will be the same, my username, even in old comments, will just change to jackshoegazer. You shouldn't have to re-add me, nor I you.

I will miss my fnord777 moniker, but alas, I have outgrown my Wilsonian and numerical nomenclature. I yearn for something unique and of my own creation.