Open Office @ MindSay

So I am being overdramatic. It wasn't an era, more like a month. I am no longer working in our Hall's office. I am returning to the field as of tomorrow. I will be running the Ironworker crew for the second phase of Metropolitian Place. Metro Place is a bunch of condos going up about 2 blocks from the Capitol in Madison. I get to build them, but I couldn't afford to live there without winning the lottery. I am looking forward to working outside again, office work is sheer drudgery. Those of you that can do it, & keep passing the open windows, I say Kudos. I will miss the interaction of making our members lives better, but fresh air & sunshine are my lifeblood.
As a sidenote, I saw the sunrise today. Beautiful orange ball with a purple halo around it.

I feel after this post that someone will hand me the geek award even though I didn't get linux running on some new device.

One feature of Halo 2 that I absolutely love, but never really found a use for was the ability for stat-saving. Any Halo 2 game you play over Xbox Live is stored in data format on a bungie server. The number of kills, deaths and scores of each game are there for you to view. Did someone kick your butt? Find out how good (or bad) they really are by entering in their Gamertag.

You can also subscribe to this information as an RSS feed. Very neat and cool, but I just hadn't quite understood how to really use the information yet. Well, after messing around with NeoOffice (OpenOffice for Java on a mac.) I finally was able to strip away not needed information in order to create my death database!

That is right! I have a spreadsheet that now can caluate my stats on Halo 2. Of course... I'm not really proud of it since I hardly play the game... but none the less... I have one!

In fact, On April 3, 2005. allaroundpsycho, nomad and myself all played some Halo 2 over Xbox Live. Here are some handy charts that will help you view the results.





Now... I must say... First, AAP and I haven't played in a long time.  So the first couple of games were me getting the controls down faster then him.  Once we got playing... We are really pretty evenly matched.  Also, "Guest" may or may not be Nomad.  I'm pretty sure it is, but those scores don't represent her talents at Halo 2.  Plus... If AAP and I hadn't played in awhile... she has played less.

So there you have it folks.  The reason that Office applications and Halo 2 stats shouldn't go together.. or else you get charts!

::Chilly waits to be handed the Geek Award::

Wow, Open Office 2.0 Beta is pretty crappy. Tried making a simple chart with the 'impress' tool, showing how tag usage on MindSay has increased lately.

It crashed within 45 seconds of me using it. I know it's BETA, but still....

Anyway, right after it crashed, a tool comes up asking me to fill in all kinds of information, like what I did before it crashed etc. I filled it out, clicked "Submit" and that crashed too. Real nice.