KODIAK BEER PONG LEAGUE

The Wall Street Journal ran a story about two guys who were tired of cleaning up after a night of playing beer pong, so they dropped out of college, designed and produced a special beer pong table, and now are living the good life.

Drinking games are and have been a part of the college experience, but the Kodiak Perspective admits his age, and missed the coming of "Beer Pong" where glasses of beer are set out and rivals try to toss ping pong balls into the cups. If you get the ball in the cup of beer, your opponent must chug it. When all of a teams beer is gone, the game is over. The team that still has beer is the winner (loser?).

Hmmmm . . . Maybe the watering holes around Kodiak should form a league, complete with tee shirts and caps. Weekly meets could be held at different establishments culminating in the crowing of a champion.

It has to be safer than darts, (never understood getting drunk and hurling pointy projectiles) and it sounds like a whole lot more fun.

HOW WORK GETS DONE

Like many of you, the Kodiak Perspective, has been watching the progress of the water main replacement project going on this summer. After snapping this picture of one man in a whole with five guys standing around it, the foreman addressed the Perspective, "If you are going to take pictures, you need a hard hat." When asked if he had an extra hard hat, he told this reporter to keep moving.

BEAR VS PIG

What do Kodiak Bears crave when they want a cool refreshing beverage? Some locally crafted Kodiak Island Brewery Beer. This bear pig was brought in from a setnet site after it’s encounter with a Kodiak Brown Bear. There are two prominent punctures in the skin, not sure if they are teeth or claws marks.

The bear also made off with a Kodiak Island Brewery tee shirt, and a "Support you local Brewery" bumper sticker.

PURITY OF ESSENCE

Colonel Jack D. Ripper from "Dr Strangelove" warned us to protect ourselves from the evils of fluoridation. This month one of the champions of fluoride in our water died, Dr. Duncan W. Clark, passed away at his home at the age of 96. Many water supplies now are fluoridated, but in the early 1960's the practice was debated as costly and unsafe.

We thank Dr Clark for his small part in adding to the story of this great movie. Remember the words of Col. Jack D. Ripper, "That’s why I only drink branch water or distilled Kentucky bourbon"

STUFF, STUFF, AND MORE STUFF

The Perspective is busy cleaning out the house. It is just amazing the amount of stuff that accumulates. Where does it all come from. It could be that shell you picked up on the beach, or some colored glass, or the dozen pens and pencils that were heaved upon you at ComFish. The magnet you picked up on vacation, or the soap that you brought home in your luggage, it just keeps building. A pack of matches from a restaurant, or a velvet bag from a bottle of Crown, or those Mardi Gras beads you’ve had for years. Tee shirts from events you’ve been to, or took park in, or the extra buttons that came with a shirt.

Useless, useless, useless, time to throw things away. How hard is it to throw these things away. When the real question is why is it here in the first place? The funny thing is that the Kodiak Perspective is not materialistic, and yet it still comes, like dust, covering every surface.

Toss it away, but the stuff is like a boomerang, it just comes back, and brings it’s friends. The worst part about clearing out the stuff is the closets. You can empty a closet, and the house looks no cleaner.

Progress is being made in the war on stuff, but the battle is still raging at the home of the Kodiak Perspective.

VISTA POLL

After asking the readers to own up, Windows Vista made an impressive comeback in the recent poll. If we disregard the skewwed results for "other", the readers slightly favor Mac to Vista. Several computer companies are starting to offer Linux, but the poll results show a large lag. Apple announced the new iMac this week.

The new poll is about the significance of 756.

756 – ITS JUST A NUMBER

The world didn’t end today, though there were reports of Ishmael trying to commit suicide by jumping out the window of the KoKon bunker, too bad it is in the basement of his mother’s house, as Barry Bonds passed Hank Aaron as the all time home run king.

Given the high emotional output by fans, friends and enemies, the Barry Bonds quest has livened up the summer, as people debated what the meaning of the number 756, just as they argued the number 61 just a few years back.

Now that we have a new number, can we just get back to enjoying the pennant races.