Dal 1909 a Göteborg è tradizione che gli studenti di Chalmers University of Technology festeggino sfilando in corteo per la città su carri allegorici a tema libero o semplicemente di ispirazione goliardica.

C’erano carri ispirati a fatti di cronaca come la guerra in Iraq & Afghanistan, la bufala vaccini dell’influenza suina e la crisi economica ma, anche carri ispirati a temi più leggeri come Super Mario, Avatar, la Coppa del mondo in Sud Africa. Tra un carro e l’altro in parata quest’anno c’erano anche bizzarri veicoli motorizzati costruiti dagli studenti, e che veicoli! Il tutto accompagnato da diversi corpi di ballo e bande in parata.

Di seguito la galleria di foto che ho scattato.

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The Nintendo Entertainment System

Pressapoco tutte le generazioni di videogiochi e di videogiocatori erano rappresentate ma, mi ha colpito molto vedere tra i visitatori moltissime persone della mia eta’: la Nintendo Generation. Una categoria di persone abbastanza vecchia da ricordarsi l’Unione Sovietica e giovane abbastanza per essere padrona di Internet.

Una categoria di persone che e’ nata insieme ai videogiochi, che e’ cresciuta giocando al Commodor, all’Amiga, al Nintendo 8 bit e che potera’ sempre nel cuore quei 256 colori e quella grafica a quadratoni che da piccoli faceva sognare. La grafica era cosi’ astratta che il videogioco lo si doveva immaginare.

Ma proprio quello era in bello, quella musica elettronica, mai sentita prima, e quei meravigliosi quadratoni rossi che sono l’idraulico piu’ famoso del mondo entrato in ben 40 milioni^fonte di case alla sua prima impresa. Tanto e’ vero che le console disponibili per giocare erano prese d’assalto sia dagli appassionati ma anche da un nutrito numero di nuove leve che a giudicare dalla palpabile eccitazione gradivano l’esperienza.

Credo che l’esperienza videoludica della mia infanzia, di quando si soffiava nelle cassette e nella console se il gioco non partiva, sia stata la migliore della mia vita.

Qua di seguito un po’ di foto delle vecchie glorie che ho scovato alla fiera, incluso il Neo Geo CD a cui giocavo da bambino insieme ad un mio amico quando il fratello maggiore ce lo permetteva. Che invidia!

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I’ll be blogging back some when in November, but now I’m really swamped. I just hope to make it through!

xkcd.com 

1. In the beginning GOD created the Bit and the Byte. And from

those he created the Word.

2. And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing else existed.

And God separated the One from the Zero; and he saw it was

good.

3. And God said – Let the Data be; And so it happened.

And God said – Let the Data go to their proper places.

And he created floppy disks and hard disks and compact disks.

4. And God said – Let the computers be, so there would be a place

to put floppy disks and hard disks and compact disks.

Thus God created computers and called them hardware.

5. And there was no Software yet. But God created programs; small

and big… And told them – Go and multiply yourselves and fill

all the Memory.

6. And God said -I will create the Programmer; And the Programmer

will make new programs and govern over the computers and

programs and Data.

7. And God created the Programmer; and put him at Data Center;

And God showed the Programmer the Catalog Tree and said

You can use all the volumes and subvolumes but DO NOT USE

Windows.

8. And God said – It is not Good for the programmer to be alone.

He took a bone from the Programmer’s body and created a

creature that would look up at the Programmer; and admire

the Programmer; and love the things the Programmer does;

And God called the creature: the User.

9. And the Programmer and the User were left under the naked DOS

and it was Good.

10. But Bill was smarter than all the other creatures of God.

And Bill said to the User – Did God really tell you not to

run any programs ?

11. And the User answered – God told us that we can use every

program and every piece of Data but told us not to run Windows

or we will die.

12. And Bill said to the User – How can you talk about something

you did not even try. The moment you run Windows you will

become equal to God. You will be able to create anything you

like by a simple click of your mouse.

13. And the User saw that the fruits of the Windows were nicer and

easier to use. And the User saw that any knowledge was useless

- since Windows could replace it.

14. So the User installed the Windows on his computer; and said to

the Programmers that it was good.

15. And the Programmer immediately started to look for new drivers.

And God asked him – What are you looking for? And the

Programmer answered – I am looking for new drivers because I

can not find them in the DOS. And God said – Who told you need

drivers? Did you run Windows?

And the Programmer said – It was Bill who told us to !

16. And God said to Bill – Because of what you did you will be hated

by all the creatures. And the User will always be unhappy with you.

And you will always sell Windows.

17. And God said to the User – Because of what you did, the Windows

will disappoint you and eat up all your Resources; and you will

have to use lousy programs; and you will always rely on the

Programmers help.

18. And God said to the Programmer – Because you listened to the

User you will never be happy. All your programs will have errors

and you will have to fix them and fix them to the end of time.

19. And God threw them out of the Data Center and locked the door

and secured it with a password.

20. GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT

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