With Margaret away — and here I’d interpose a frowny face if I were the sort of person so to do — I was lead dog in the household today; did dishes, made pancakes, took offspring to the library and the grocery store, made a special dinner of fried egg sandwiches (an haute cuisine entree for which I am known as a specialist), french fries, and [vegetarian] Italian sausages.
But most of all, I wondered at and gave heartfelt thanks for the fact that so many people stopped in on their weekend to wish me well on my promotion. I’ve met so many brilliant and accomplished people online that I don’t feel nearly so vain about a job title as I might have in my more cloistered academic identity. All the more, then, do I thank you; you who teach me so much, who show such patience with my folly and ignorance, you who stick around even when I exasperate you. The real honor comes not from the title, but from the care of people who needn’t bother. And I guess I am proud of that. Thanks, so much.
Posted by AKMA at November 1, 2003 10:37 PM | TrackBackVegetarian *Italian* sausages??? Not in the Italy I know. Must be some other one.
Belated congratulations on the higher salary.
Posted by: Simon Sarmiento at November 3, 2003 02:46 AMdo you put peanut butter on your fried egg sandwiches? Long one of my father's delicacies, as well-- true comfort food.
Posted by: Jane Ellen at November 3, 2003 01:03 PMThanks for avoiding the sad face.
Posted by: Eeksy-Peeksy at November 4, 2003 03:20 AMThis code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?
Posted by: Annabella at January 13, 2004 01:59 AMThis is another function provided for dealing with the heap. After you've created some space in the Heap, it's yours until you let go of it. When your program is done using it, you have to explicitly tell the computer that you don't need it anymore or the computer will save it for your future use (or until your program quits, when it knows you won't be needing the memory anymore). The call to simply tells the computer that you had this space, but you're done and the memory can be freed for use by something else later on.
Posted by: Enoch at January 13, 2004 02:00 AMThis is another function provided for dealing with the heap. After you've created some space in the Heap, it's yours until you let go of it. When your program is done using it, you have to explicitly tell the computer that you don't need it anymore or the computer will save it for your future use (or until your program quits, when it knows you won't be needing the memory anymore). The call to simply tells the computer that you had this space, but you're done and the memory can be freed for use by something else later on.
Posted by: Hamond at January 13, 2004 02:00 AM