Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Star Wars Galaxies & The Real World: She Said “Yes” in Both!

    Sunday night I popped the question… in two different places. First, in SWG, and then immediately in the real world.

    First, I struggled to purchase a program online via PayPal that captures your computer screen activity and saves it into a video file for later viewing. …no dice, PayPal takes 2 to 3 days to validate, and I wanted to propose before we went up north (she would get a lot of love and praise from her family, and I wouldn’t get capped via a 22). I tried using her PayPal after much annoying running back and forth between the bedroom (her office where she plays SWG) and my office. Turns out, her PayPal default email was sent to a no longer valid email address. After purchasing the program, I had no way to download it. Contacting the geek who played geek games and made the geek program… I didn’t receive a response till Monday morning. I guess he has a life, but most geeks I know are on their comps on Sunday night.

    At any rate, in depression, I wallowed in self-pity at my failed plan. Then, I suddendly came up with the bright idea of using demo software. Found a link to a site a friend recommended a long time ago, downloaded their demo of HyperCam, and went to work tweaking my settings as low as they would go so I could get the best framerate. I ended up settling for 1 fps… Even after a fresh reformat and a screamin’ video card, my comp still could barely handle SWG and the capture going at the same time. So, I logged in, travelled to the planet my fiancee had moved to, and documented the journey.

    I’ve posted the footage. If you wish to cut to the chase, simply select “The Proposal” from the controls. Video of the real ring is at the end.

    …the least I can do, I believe, is to purchase HyperCam since they saved my arse. Don’t know what I am going to do with two video capture programs, though…

    SWG Proposal – Main (html) | Scalable (swf)

  • Loading Levels only for looks? Depends…

    Using 2004 to test loading some levels on this … *ahem*, “app” I’m working on. It seems that although the level does stream in via the bandwidth profiler, getBytesLoaded and getBytesTotal are returning the full values. Interestingly, if you hardcode the level, you get the correct results. Check it, this gives me the full bytes even though I’m “streaming” in Flash:
    <code>
    var mc = eval(“_level ” + this._parent.MOVIE_LEVEL);
    var l = mc.getBytesLoaded();
    var t = mc.getBytesTotal();
    </code>
    This gives me the correct streaming results:
    <code>
    var l = _level1.getBytesLoaded();
    var t = _level1.getBytesTotal();
    </code>

    Alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll righty then.

  • Beatdown: 40 minute Scoring App

    Built this app in a burnt out fervor. Co-workers play Ping-Pong, and are pretty competitive, and like to keep score. I made a simple Flashcom app that keeps the score. Many would reason PHP and mySQL are pristine for this. I reply, “Sure, but not in 40 minutes.”

    Just make a folder on your flashcom server called “beatdown”, and replace the rtmp path, and uncomment the SO creation at the bottom.

    Beatdown – <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/downloads/beatdown.zip”>ZIP</a>

  • Britney Spears – In The Zone

    A lot of weird things happened when I gew up. I changed a lot. I either adopted what I could stand, or loved what others couldn’t strictly cause they couldn’t (Sonic Youth anyone?) strictly cause that was one did at the time. Fell back to my roots during a metal stage, and then dropped all the metal to like rap (hip-hop) which I didn’t think ever would happen except over my dead body. Once I went dance music, everything else pretty much fell to the wayside, or was incorporated in some way. The only recent even that was weird was my respect for Justin Timberlake (formerly N-sync) when I saw a DVD of him beatbox battling with a drummer live on stage. I was like, “Holy …” and from that moment forward, I’ve tried yet again to be open to new things.

    Hence, buying this album for my gf last night after work + Medal of Honor: Breakthrough, I must admit that there are some phat tracks on it. I’m definately gotta mix track 4, Breathe On Me. If you hate pop, you have your reasons, but if your open, at least check it out from a website or a friend as I recommend it.