May 18, 2006

Out to Lunch: Back Monday

Mmmm...beer.

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January 19, 2006

This is the Grown-Up Version of Those Metal Model Airplanes You Had as a Kid

I speak of none other than Enplaned. This is blogging at its finest. It's like the Wall Street Journal reporter on the airline beat does after-hours blogging after stiff shots of Grey Goose: smart, detailed, and a lucidity that only comes from knowing about a lot of bodies but being so inebriated that propriety no longer restrains.

For a prime example of the nerdy excellence that is Enplaned, try this riveting tail of how Sky West went double-or-nothing on a losing bet and walked away as the largest regional airline in the US. Or how 'bout a veritable composite/steel cage fight between the new Airbus A350 and the new Boeing 787M heavies, replete with an unplanned deviation into the fabled "second-mover advantage".

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December 13, 2005

Taking a Long Time to Have Fun

  1. Make the best paper airplane in the world (yes, follow those loooong instructions, it's worth it.).
  2. Read the case analysis of the most successful Russian spy of the Cold War (yes, it's long. read the whole thing anyways.).

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December 02, 2005

Barely The Best: The Best of Barely Legal Substance, 2004-2005

This is first annual Greatest Hits post for Barely Legal Substance. My metrics include the number of comments, the number of hits, the most consistently viewed, and the ones that make me happy. Enjoy with a fine wine.


  1. Sexy Twin Primes

  2. My hair

  3. Can We Please Deport Pat Robertson?

  4. RE: Completed WO# 7718 - Monitor will not move

  5. Writing Software As Digital Rhetoric

  6. Big Red House 2004

  7. How The NBA Got Its Soul Back

  8. Seven Lessons Learned From Outlook/Mailsite Migration

  9. Further Reflections on "Zombies in St. Elmo Redux"

  10. For the Last Time, Harry Potter != Satanic

  11. Hellfire

  12. "Peter Brinkerhoff Is a Sexy Beast": Tall Tales of Digital Reputation

  13. Why I Hate Comcast, and, By Proxy, The Entire Media/Communications Industry

  14. Covenant Alumni Open Forum

  15. What I Won't Pay for Security

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November 22, 2005

Out to Lunch. Back on Monday

Some wags may be tempted to point out that this is not a temporary state of affairs. Save it for the wiki, I say.

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November 06, 2005

Out to Lunch. Back on Wednesday.

To amuse yourself, browse my undergraduate academic writings on Harry Potter, Dante & contrapasso, and AI.

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July 02, 2005

Reflections on Josiah's "Zombies in St. Elmo"

Two points in response to Josiah's posts regarding disaster recovery procedures in the event of a zombie attack in St. Elmo.

First, Josiah, you have the makings of a grand master's thesis in film and philosophy investigating the philosophy of mind embedded in zombie flicks.

Second, and this is digging deep into my axiology, I intensely dislike zombies. Not personally, but as a concept. I can accept, suspending disbelief, that the dead become undead. I also accept your claim that zombies have no higher-order cognitive capabilities. Doesn't bother me at all. And it seems perfectly reasonable to believe that if a zombie bites you, you become dead, and then undead, joining their ranks.

What does bother me gets into why I never fully enjoyed Romero's Dead trilogy, or the horror videogames (Resident Evil, Parasite Eve, etc). It is this: how can you kill the undead? They've been dead, now they are undead, and your going to make them dead again? How can the undead go back to the dead, since they've already incorporated 'dead' into their very name! What are you going to do with that railgun or chainsaw, skipper? Dead the undead? Sorry baby, this cowboy don't ride like that.

Oftentimes the zombies are allowed to pull themselves back together for another go of it. This is ludicrous to another power. You know what I'm talking about, you Halo gamers. You kill 'em with three blasts from the shotgun, but then their blasted limbs scattered across the ground start twitching, and you look away, and by the time you look back, there's a newly-reanimated zombie all up in your grill, talking about your mom and waving his twice-dead bloodied stumps around, trying to bite you. Well bite me, Mr. Zombie: what's your metaphysical justification for this?! You're a walking logical contradiction. The dead become undead cannot become dead again, and may certainly not become the undeadundead in the impossible scenario of becoming the undeaddead. Poof, away you go in a dissipated vapor of triumphant syllogism.

In conclusion, Josiah, while your DR plan for the zombie uprising in St. Elmo is admirable, I am sad to say it is fatally flawed, for you cannot kill the undead.

I will revisit this topic tomorrow, after I have thought about it before going to sleep for the night.

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June 24, 2005

Airwolf

The long-latent synapses that keep track of the 80's TV show Airwolf decided to fire today for reasons that they keep to themselves. That show was so cool. I was six or so when it was running, and in re-runs after that, and Airwolf was the sweetest helicopter ever. I would watch it and patiently wait out the long dry bits of acting, story, plot, and character development until the sweet juice money shots of Airwolf taking off and firing one of its missiles played. Those moments were cash money as a kid. The theme music would kick in, the baddies from Libya or whatever would roast in techno-American glory, and the world would be made right.

I don't know what to do with this, but it probably relates to the shedding of childhood innocence. Reading the wikipedia entry, it seems that the helicopter that played Airwolf later crashed in it’s post-stardom gig as an air ambulance, killing a little girl and the two pilots. That helicopter was a gift to my imagination, but the fantasies abounding in a kid’s imagination can keep it from crashing.

Geez, I don't even remember what the people in the cast looked like. But I remember that Airwolf was black, and had this sweet APF-Pod on the bottom that fired missles. It had a stealth mode where no one could see it, so it would sneak up behind a tree and then rise up over it and destroy the unwary target. Yeah. Anyways, there's a cool wikipedia entry on it, and the first season came out on DVD this year. That'll get filed under "TV shows to torture Elissa with in the future." Oh, and you can relive the glory days of deadly but with your sweet stealth CIA black helicopter by listening to that kickin' theme. Dum, dum-dum-da-dum, da-dum-dum-dum, da-dum-dum-dum...

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May 19, 2005

Gone For Lunch: Back Tomorrow

Thanks to kind friends with extra tickets, I'm off to watch Episode 3 this afternoon. Break me a give.

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May 05, 2005

Subjects and Whimsies

You might have wondered to yourself, "Hmm, Noel is posting off his normal topics. He's talked about going on dates, wine, his wife, and his cat. Is he longing for the simpler things in life? Has he hit the certain maturity where your aesthetic becomes crow-like? I WANT ZEROS AND ONES!!!"

Calm down, gentle reader. My wife keeps telling me that I should blog more about kitties, wine, local stuff, and her. She says that I pretty much get two kinds of visitors: those coming from chattablogs, and those coming from google with the search term "barely legal." I won't cater to the latter for obvious reasons (though I have some funny ideas for them), and so she says that I should increase my visibility in the chattablogs sphere in hopes to parlay that visibility elsewhere (eg in the technology sphere, where I've mostly been posting in).

So, more cat blogging, wine, st. elmo, and wife! Less about identity, information theory, legal it, rhetoric, computer science, software engineering, etc.

I’m game. We'll see who rusts first ;)

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April 19, 2005

Cheer up, Charlie

Don't worry. I've been writing profusely, just not here. There’s only so much there.

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March 28, 2005

Web Host Wanted

Jumpdomain, who hosts my personal domain, finally struck out. I’m not picky, but if I do have a problem, I like to have it acknowledged and fixed, either in a timely manner or at all. Unfortunately, there's not another hosting company at-bat, so I'm scouting for a big stick to add to the roster.

If you want to share the name of a star in your stable, leave a comment below or fire me a pitch.

I have my eye on Dreamhost.

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March 24, 2005

Terms of Service

Thanks to The Reasonable Man, I've added a Terms of Service for this blog.

No, I'm not paranoid. I just like to experiment.

There's only two reasons I'm doing so. First, to protect myself from you if you go after me (which wasn't what prompted this in the first place, btw). Second, to give me a legal basis for pursuing spammers (why I went a-huntin' for TOS). Otherwise, you can chill. Get into the extended entry for more hot legalese action.

For those more paranoid, here are the parts regarding your privacy, what you cannot post, and who owns what you post. Basically, you have no privacy, you can't post anything illegal, and I have the right to publish what you post under my Creative Commons license. Everything else is boilerplate.

Terms of Service

Welcome to Barely Legal Substance (the "Service"), the weblog of Noel Weichbrodt (the "Proprietor"). Your use of the Service is subject to these Terms of Service ("TOS"). The Proprietor reserves the right to update and change the TOS from time to time without notice or acceptance by you.

1. Introduction. This agreement ("Agreement") between You and the Proprietor consists of these Terms of Service. "You" means any person or entity who uses the Service and/or posts Content to the Service. By using the Service and/or posting Content you agree to be bound by the terms and condition of this Terms of Service.

2. Privacy Policy. None, obviously.

3. User Conduct and Content. You understand that all information, data, text, comments, graphics, messages or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not the Proprietor are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Service.

You agree to not use the Service to:

a. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

b. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);

c. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;

d. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation; harm minors in any way;

e. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

f. interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;

g. intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;

h. provide material support or resources (or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources) to any organization(s) designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act;

i. collect or store personal data about other users.

You acknowledge that the Proprietor may or may not pre-screen Content, but that the Proprietor and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or move any Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, the Proprietor and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by the Proprietor or submitted to the Service, including without limitation information in comments, and in all other parts of the Service.

4. Disclosure of Content and Personal Information. You acknowledge, consent and agree that the Proprietor may access, preserve, and disclose your Content and any personal information if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the TOS; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Proprietor, the users of the Service and the public.

5. No Control over Content. The Proprietor does not control the Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will the Proprietor be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Service.

6. Information Rights. The Proprietor does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service, including without limitation comments you post to the Service, you grant the Proprietor world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, non-exclusive, fully sub-licensable license(s) to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

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C. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM THE PROPRIETOR OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.

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March 21, 2005

Monday Meditation: Glimpses; Tools for Building & Rebuilding

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March 10, 2005

For Justin & My Other Ex-Czech Friends

You would like these pretty pictures of Prague and the ongoing travelogue.

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March 07, 2005

Monday Meditation: Levels, States, & Scales

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March 04, 2005

Coming Out

So, the old barelylegalprogrammer personna is starting to feel a bit constrictive; words stick in my craw and the suit itches when I hit too close to home. This blog was never supposed to be anonymous, merely pseudonymous, while I experiment and learn how to write a blog. I thought it best to do so without much impact on my real life.

However, the rewards of linking this blog with my real life keep growing, and I feel like I understand the risks in doing so.

The final question for me, then, is methodological. How do I inform my boss(es)? Near I can figure, the options are:

For the record, I have chosen the second option. Note the new copyright attribution & disclaimer on the far bottom left, and the link back to my personal site. Hey, well on my way to full compliance with Dennis Kennedy's advice to new bloggers.

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March 03, 2005

About Noel Weichbrodt, the Barely Legal Programmer

Noel Weichbrodt
[email] noel weichbrodt org (you may supply the @ and .)
[phone] as soon as I get one
[web] weichbrodt.org

The cringe-inducing one-liner:
I write code for a law firm in Chattanooga, TN.

Life Map

Born in Colorado, grown in Oklahoma, proud ex-Texan, and sometimes-proud alumni of Covenant College (B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Information & Computer Science; 2004). Lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and works as an Application Developer for a AMLaw 500 firm. Prone to puns and philosophizing about where he lives. Does not normally write in third person, but does try to use the blog as an outlet for experimentation of that and other natures.

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Currently lives in .NET (VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, Javascript, T-SQL, XHTML, XML, etc). Educated in Java & C. Uses & endorses Apple products at home, but only for important stuff. What I write in code isn't that exciting, but the problems are real and tangled.

Accomplishments schma schma schma...

Read, think, write, think, read, revise, think, rinse, repeat.

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March 01, 2005

Monday Meditation: Ugly Tasty

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February 25, 2005

A Thing That I Like, Part 1: Etymoptic ER-6i

As winter shortened the days, my dissatisfaction grew with the Sennheiser noise-canceling headphones I had purchased over the summer. Gotta blame something. I began researching other options. The Bose was tempting, but a pretty penny. Plus, I wanted something smaller.

My big-ape Technics headphones are great fun, and for pure rock-n-roll bliss nothing touches those holy-mondo drivers, but flying, coding, and urban travel demand a more innocuous and portable solution.

Enter that twice-blessed organization by the unpronounceable (but strangely memorable) name of Etymotic Research. I now use & abuse two of their fine products with much audiophilific satisfaction. The EtyCom headset snaps into the 2.5in earpiece jack in my cell phone, and pipes crystal-clear voices into my head while I strill and chatter about the 40-mph wind gusts skirting around the trees. But that happiness pales compared to the satisfaction that comes from sliding into the silent aural cocoon that is provided by my Etymotic ER-6i earphones. I will share just one story out of many that I could tell, and that others have told. I like to lunch outside in the nearby plaza on nice days. However, the adjacent sidewalk has been subjected to a harsh pummeling this week by a revitalization-mandate-wielding jackhammer attached to a Bobcat. Noise, noise, wretched noise of progress. Thanks to my ER-6is and an iPod on full random, however, my lunch Tuesday was bliss. When the Bobcat started jackhammering half-way through my afternoon meal, I failed to notice 'till the birds took flight from nearby trees in apparent disgust regarding the unheard noise.

Ah, things I like.

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February 16, 2005

Recommendations That Count (In Which He Reveals What Nature of a Sci-Fi Geek He Indeed Is)

I want to know if the new Battlestar Galatica series is any good. But who can I trust for advice? I'm the only SF geek in my group of friends. Slashdot offers some insight, but by the time you get to the end of the discussion you've seen just as many con responses as pro. And with digital identity, it's hard to establish credibility like we do in the real world--I can't ask BSGRawks33 if he thought seasons 4-6 of DS9 were the best Trek ever, The Fifth Element underrated, and Space Above and Beyond the greatest cancelled series, and evaluate his BSG recommendation based on his responses.

The nets I cast for opinions among friends are more carefully timed and tied than most. But we all cast nets: "Did you see last week's OC?" Or, "What did you think of The Life Aquatic?" And we all make choices based on the catch from those nets: "Dude, no!" Or, "It's Anderson, man, with Bill Murray. The touch is golden!"

We also evaluate the catch of those nets by comparing 'twixt their response and our own thoughts. "Yeah, the whole secret sea base thing was just to pull your attention away from the dull second act." Or, "Ryan has become so sweet! How could you not agree?" We're constantly grabbing responses and evaluating credentials like this.

The time has come for real online recommendations.

It's time for Amazon et al to give me what I want. I've bought the DVD series from them. I've sat down and utilized their cool star-rating XMLHTTP feature. They've aggregated thousands of buying patterns and ratings. They know more about what I like, and what people who like what I like like, and what people who buy what I buy also buy, than anyone. Why can you not tell me if I should follow the new Battlestar Galatica series???

There's any number of ways to do it. Take what I've rated in the sci-fi genre, find out who has given the same media similar ratings, and then show what those people rated the new BSG. Or, of those who have bought shows x, y, and z, but looked at then bailed on a, what have they gone on to buy next? How about narrow demographics? My age within two years, my region within 100 miles, similar past purchases. The ways are endless, and probably quite surprising. But I know there are useful recommendations in there somewhere. Please, Amazon et al, counsel me. I’m just a lonely sci-fi geek jonesn for my catch.

[Update: Jon Garfunkle extends this critique upwards to cover society-level items and outwards across e-tailers, blogs, social networks, etc. Good stuff, and short read.]

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January 31, 2005

Monday Meditation: Mornings Always Bring Moor & Mountain

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January 27, 2005

"I've been wanting to ask you since the first week. Don't say anything. I'm taking you to dinner tonight."

I offer this link and dedicate it Mesh and my other Apprentice, Season 2 viewing buddies. And to the 12-year-old girl who didn't speak for the first half of the show but provided the greatest reaction shots of surprise and disbelief. "You just said 'let's not waste any time and start planning now!' OMG!!!" "Little Stacy", Esq.

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January 14, 2005

Out To Lunch: Back on Tuesday

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January 10, 2005

Monday Mediation: Standing on Shoulders of Granite

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December 22, 2004

The Holiday Post: My Favorite Things

To tide over your holidays, I've compiled a small list of reading and listening that is best suited to wireless browsing by an open fire, popping roasted chestnuts and opening brown paper packages tied up with string. A greatest-hits collection of my brief blogging career.

More holiday reading? The linkblog, and the blogroll will take care of that!

Merry Christmas from the island!

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December 21, 2004

A Whale, Alone at 52 Hertz

Alone, alone, alone, ...

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December 20, 2004

Monday Meditation: Eyes Always on the Road

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December 13, 2004

Monday Meditation: I'm a Fan of Life

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November 29, 2004

Monday Meditation: Need No Comment!

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Welcome Back

Happy Post-Thanksgiving. Back for roughly as long as those leftovers. Probably not as good, though. Mmmm...

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November 22, 2004

Monday Meditation: Though I Spend My Youth in the East, My Heart Is in the West

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November 15, 2004

Monday Meditation: Roads Aren't Your Destination

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