This story is based upon a research article, On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl, recently published by Siegfried D. Schubert, Max J. Suarez, Philip J. Pegion , Randal D. Koster, and Julio T. Bacmeister in the March 19, 2004 edition of SCIENCE Magazine.
short stack(Noun) A relatively small amount of chips relative to the stakes. short stack(Noun) An amount of chips which is far less than the average in the tournament. short stack(Noun) A player who is in possession of a short stack. short stack(Noun) Two pancakes one on top of the other, as opposed to a stack of three.
The stack pointer is usually a register that contains the top of the stack. The stack pointer contains the smallest address x such that any address smaller than x is considered garbage, and any address greater than or equal to x is considered valid. In the example above, the stack pointer contains the value 0x0000 1000, which was somewhat arbitrarily chosen.