Since everyone comes here to find out the latest on politics. . . no, but seriously, David Weinberger and our numerous other friends in the Dean campaign (Betsy, Britt, Halley, whom am I leaving out?) must be pretty elated right about now.
I remember being politically engaged in third-party politics a few aeons ago, and any little good news would thrill us. We never got close to winning a primary, much less a nomination or the Presidency; if we could be excited that Our Hero was mentioned in a single news story, how much bigger the rush that David et al. are riding now that the Big Media have assigned the Democratic nomination to Howard Dean? Even Molly Ivins has moved into DeanSpace. (How does DeanSpace have a sweet little favicon, but BlogForAmerica doesn’t? And isn’t it convenient that “Dean” only has four letters, so you can fit it onto a favicon? “Lieberman” would be in trouble, even if you spelled it without vowels. And how did it happen that in the twenty-first century, only guys with four-letter names can be major-party nominees? If I were Carol Moseley Braun, I might look into losing a letter to gain a nomination.)
Congratulations, friends, and I hope that all your action plans pan out; the world will be a better place for your work and your ideals (either way). I don’t have that civic spirit any more, but I love to see it radiate from people who really care about the Dean campaign. I’d rather vote for David for president — but then, his last name has too many letters. If it has to be one of the four-letter guys, I hope it’s Dean, and I hope that he doesn’t let you down.
Say, does Howard have theme music yet? ’Cause the other day I was listening to “Let It Be Me,” from the Indigo Girls’ Rites of Passage album, and it sounds like a promising possibility. It’s positive, it’s anti-war and anti-domination, it’s harmonious (no embarrassing scenes of Howard playing air guitar along with Rage Against the Machine), it’s by a talented, politically-progressive, gay, articulate, spiritually-attuned team. “Turning off a light switch is their only power/when we stand like spotlights in a mighty tower. . . .”
Posted by AKMA at December 8, 2003 11:44 PM | TrackBackCarol Mosely Bran. Wouldn't she find herself in vegan Kucinich-space?
Posted by: fp at December 9, 2003 10:19 AMOr she could go with “Carol Moseley Brau,” to appeal to beer-drinkers.
Posted by: AKMA at December 9, 2003 12:20 PMThe Stack is just what it sounds like: a tower of things that starts at the bottom and builds upward as it goes. In our case, the things in the stack are called "Stack Frames" or just "frames". We start with one stack frame at the very bottom, and we build up from there.
Posted by: Dolora at January 13, 2004 10:16 AMInside each stack frame is a slew of useful information. It tells the computer what code is currently executing, where to go next, where to go in the case a return statement is found, and a whole lot of other things that are incredible useful to the computer, but not very useful to you most of the time. One of the things that is useful to you is the part of the frame that keeps track of all the variables you're using. So the first place for a variable to live is on the Stack. This is a very nice place to live, in that all the creation and destruction of space is handled for you as Stack Frames are created and destroyed. You seldom have to worry about making space for the variables on the stack. The only problem is that the variables here only live as long as the stack frame does, which is to say the length of the function those variables are declared in. This is often a fine situation, but when you need to store information for longer than a single function, you are instantly out of luck.
Posted by: Charles at January 13, 2004 10:17 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Paul at January 13, 2004 10:18 AM