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Objectivist -

So I was at a supermarket one day, getting some bananas.  Why not right?  They are delicious and come in their own individual packaging.  As the world gets more hectic, the importance of the banana increases.

Now we live in a world where there are implied rules on how to buy your fruit.  Specifically with bananas, one usually buys them in bunches.  I suppose it’s okay if one needs just one banana, then one can just grab one banana.  I figure this rule, while not on any documents of note, is well known.

A woman walks by me, and promptly starts to snap off all the best bananas from different bunches and place them in her basket.  She was an Objectivist.

What a bitch.

This is an excellent question. Back when I actually ran a web server on my home machine, I used to have all sorts of crap there with absolutely no merit. So obviously nothing has changed. For various reasons, the main one being that I wanted to get rid of my DSL and switch to a cable modem, I wanted to actually host a web page but just not physically in my apartment.

My friend Eugene told me that I should just use my friend Ken’s account on dreamhost. Eugene set everything up including what would actually be the page that resides at www.jamesyeh.com.

I’ve had plans to replace it, but in all seriousness, I honestly have no idea what to put there. While I could have simply put this blog as my homepage, that seemed like the incorrect thing to do. I had an idea where I would use the BART map and replace station names with links to various aspects of myself, but it seemed tedious to do the image editing, and I couldn’t think of that many different things.

For the record, that is my voice. And I still have no idea what the words to that song are.

It hurts me somewhat personally that this guy is not going to be recognized for doing more, but it just wasn’t in the cards. He didn’t have the prolonged career necessary to get into the Hall of Fame, and while he fought more valiantly than any goalie I have ever seen in a Stanley Cup Final, when you’re facing the greatest NHL team ever assembled, sometimes you just have to be better than humanly possible to win.

What’s strange is that he’ll be remembered in the vein of Tommy John’s of the world. A revolutionary who changed how the game is played. I know Plante started the trend towards puck-handling goaltenders, but Hextall was the standard bearer in the 80’s and early 90’s. He’s the one who passed the baton to the Brodeur’s and the Turco’s.

The good news is that in February, he will be inducted into the Flyer’s Hall of Fame, and if that’s the final award for his playing career, then so be it.

Hextall is unique sports hero for me much because of the things he didn’t do. As a young child I certainly gravitated towards him as somebody to root for simply because he was violent and borderline psychotic. But in retrospect, unlike my other sports heroes at that time (the Bash Brothers and Rick Tocchet), Hextall kept his transgressions on the playing field. He was not juicing and he didn’t run a gambling ring.

Part of me wants to go to that game. Part of me wants to see him honored.

But hockey is a fickle game. General Managers who are considered geniuses one year are considered uncreative and unadaptable in others.

Paul Holmgren is doing a fantastic job. But should he falter in the future, I have no doubt in my mind that Hextall will be the next GM. And if we haven’t won a cup by then, maybe he can bring it home in a role none of us could have imagined 20 years ago.

I don’t really know why I moved my blog off Livejournal, and I really don’t know why I have a blog in the first place.  But I felt that I had to do something with jamesyeh.com because I’m sure there are other James Yeh’s who would actually do something with this domain name.  But they can’t, because it is MINE.  I imagine I’ll add a website, and perhaps change the look of this blog on occasion, this area is certainly in its infancy.

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