The faculty committee this afternoon voted to recommend to the full faculty that the faculty recommend to the trustees I be promoted to full professor.
That tortured sentence gives a sense of the number of processes yet to unfold, but this one was necessary, and it went smoothly. The committee explicitly signaled approval for my scholarship and my technology work, and indicated that they hoped Seabury could arrange my responsibilities so as to take full advantage of my strengths. That’s a very positive sign, and I’m very honored by it — even more so if they actually implement that aspiration. But they were open and trying to connect with me, and that felt very encouraging.
Posted by AKMA at July 16, 2003 05:14 PM | TrackBackBrilliant! That's wonderful!
Posted by: Dorothea Salo at July 16, 2003 05:21 PMGlad to hear it. Congratulations.
Posted by: steve at July 16, 2003 05:52 PMCongratulations! I'm sure the faculty's confidence is well-deserved. One assumes these people know a thing or two.
Posted by: Tom Shugart at July 16, 2003 05:55 PMI was trying to think of something erudite and profound, and all I come up with is, "YAY!"
Posted by: Jane Ellen at July 16, 2003 06:10 PMExcellent news! Felicitaciones! (Sounds good in Spanish, no?)
Posted by: Anne Galloway at July 16, 2003 07:23 PMOh, good!
My rule is: however much energy you spent steaming over the thing not happening, that's how happy you have to be when it happened. Equal calories must be burned.
So even though this is only a part of the total process-- you must go ahead and rejoice over it as much as you may have fumed over this part of it. However much that might be.
If you were so evolved and gracious that you had spent NO energy fretting over this not happening sooner-- then you may spend MORE energy enjoying it.
lwj
Posted by: laura at July 16, 2003 08:45 PMWell, Laura you know I’m not that gracious! But it’s good advice. We had a lvoely dinner out en famille tonight, and will try to rejoice intensely for the next few days.
Posted by: AKMA at July 16, 2003 09:47 PMCongratulations! I'm especially glad that the committee recognizes your vision and ministry in the techno-theological realms.
Posted by: Dave Rogers (C&E) at July 16, 2003 09:49 PMCongratulations AKMA. You deserve this. You have been our chaplain, our resident technotheologian of the blogoshere.
Posted by: Stan at July 16, 2003 10:12 PMCongratulations AKMA. There's a future in this technotheology stuff for sure.
Posted by: Frank Paynter at July 16, 2003 10:37 PMHurrah!
Posted by: des at July 17, 2003 04:23 AMCongratulations :-)
Posted by: Árni Daníelsson at July 17, 2003 04:45 AMHallelujah! For a no-brainer, that bunch of brains took long enough... But hurrah for this progress!
That's exceptionally good news, but oh my what you have to go through for a promotion...
Posted by: Shelley at July 17, 2003 01:03 PMLong overdue. Hooray for you!
Posted by: NTA at July 17, 2003 01:19 PMCongratulations!
Posted by: Tim Hadley at July 17, 2003 11:22 PMAw, Mom!
Thanks everyone. I don’t want to abuse your good cheer by soliciting too many episodic spasms of encouragement, so you can feel entirely safe if you omit this very generous applause for each of the next few hurdles. One of these days they’ll actually promote me, at which point we can have a big party. . . .
Posted by: AKMA at July 17, 2003 11:31 PMCongrats! This is great news!
Posted by: Jordon Cooper at July 18, 2003 12:34 AMCongrats! :)
Posted by: Rana at July 18, 2003 02:47 PMI'm a little behind...
but i'm with everyone else
YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Heather at July 20, 2003 03:35 PMCongratulations, AKMA! Great news!
Posted by: Chris Tessone at July 21, 2003 01:01 PMBut some variables are immortal. These variables are declared outside of blocks, outside of functions. Since they don't have a block to exist in they are called global variables (as opposed to local variables), because they exist in all blocks, everywhere, and they never go out of scope. Although powerful, these kinds of variables are generally frowned upon because they encourage bad program design.
Posted by: Silvester at January 12, 2004 10:40 PMA variable leads a simple life, full of activity but quite short (measured in nanoseconds, usually). It all begins when the program finds a variable declaration, and a variable is born into the world of the executing program. There are two possible places where the variable might live, but we will venture into that a little later.
Posted by: Holland at January 12, 2004 10:40 PMThis will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of
Posted by: Martha at January 12, 2004 10:41 PMBeing able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.
Posted by: Emmanuel at January 13, 2004 12:21 PMThis will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of
Posted by: Eli at January 13, 2004 12:21 PMThis back and forth is an important concept to understand in C programming, especially on the Mac's RISC architecture. Almost every variable you work with can be represented in 32 bits of memory: thirty-two 1s and 0s define the data that a simple variable can hold. There are exceptions, like on the new 64-bit G5s and in the 128-bit world of AltiVec
Posted by: Evan at January 13, 2004 12:21 PM