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December 24, 2004

Chris Lyon: Sanitation Engineer

I got an interesting email to my work account on Tuesday. It had come through the feedback form on my MSDN Blog, which is all about .NET and the technologies I work with, in particular a technology called Automatic Memory Management, or Garbage Collection for short.

In a nutshell, Garbage Collection relieves the programmer from the responsibility of allocating and cleaning up precious memory, which can be error-prone.

So back to the email. It was from a producer on CBC Radio One inquiring about interviewing me. Wow, I thought. What do Toronto morning radio listeners want to know about the exciting world of garbage collection, mark-and-sweep algorithms, and compacting heaps? The answer, as I suspected, is "nothing".

Here is the email I was sent:

do you want to do an interview with CBC radio - about sorting garbage & what goes where? it would be for Wednesday or Thursday's show - metro morning, with andy barrie. Please get back to me as soon as you can,
thankyou,
name withheld
Producer, Metro Morning
CBC Radio One 99.1

So she wanted to interview me about municipal trash pick-up? I called her back, only to get her answering machine. I never heard from her again, so I guess she clued in that I wasn't what she had hoped. I wish she had called back though. That would have been one fun interview.

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Comments

While you're at it, tell them to bring back that giant show with the tiny chairs and the pervert giraffe.

Posted by: Dav at December 24, 2004 10:21 AM

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