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9Sep/02Off

Gary Suter to retire

AP: San Jose defenseman Gary Suter to retire... Good riddens!

I can't tell you how happy I am to see this dirty villian retire from hockey. I have despised him for years. It started with all the cheap shots when he was a Calgary Flame. Frankly, I didn't like him just because he was a Flame, and that was reason enough for an Oilers fan in the late-80's. Then, during the Canada Cup in 1991, he cheaply drilled Wayne Gretzky into the boards from behind with a cross-check, injuring his back badly. He missed the rest of the tournament and his back was never the same.

In 1998, just before the Nagano Olympics, he cross-checked (that means two hands on the stick, push the stick away from your body parallel to your torso) Paul Kariya right in the face(!) just after he scored a goal (yes, the play was over and he was celebrating his goal), giving him a horrific concussion and making him miss the Olympics completely, and the final 28 games of the NHL season after that.

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9Sep/02Off

Ruby?

linux.oreillynet.com: An Introduction to Ruby from way back in October of last year.

Should I care about Ruby? It's gotten enough attention to become part of MacOS X in Jaguar, and I keep hearing about it here and there. When I read "the OOP power of Smalltalk with the utility of Perl and the power of Python," I get excited, but when I read it's a "better Perl than Perl," I cringe.

I guess I'll enqueue it to the list of things I want to learn. (Sorry Ruby )