Thursday 16th of June 2005
Brimming days
Last sunday I spent what´s possibly the best 14 euros I´ve ever spent in my life. -Heather and I were walking around Puerta del Sol, place where you can find the center of the Iberian peninsula, and it seems, also the best street musicians I´ve ever heard yet. A trio they where, and they played a violin, a viola and a cello. We stopped and listened for a bit, I recorded one song, and then we each gave them 50 cents. This is first time I actually give money to any of these street musicians types or beggars, et cetera for that matter. They actually deserved it.
Anyway, we then went into Fnac, as I wanted to buy a USB compatible gamepad to use with the laptop. Sadly, all my sidewinder are the midi port kind. We first went around was the computer section, looked at the laptops, at the macs, then at the keyboards and mouses, even cables. The last thing we went for was the gaming section, and thus, gamepads. And there it was; sitting on the shelf, a splinter of light, a shard of truth, lone as it was; forsaken by everyone, outlined against the faint neon lightning of the store, indeed, I was beholding greatness itself. For a mere 14 euros, a PS2 gamepad to USB adaptor.
I had been fooled before. When I was in Japan, I had witnessed such a device, and after inspecting it, I found out it only worked for one gamepad and it would have set me back 48000 yen. But no, this time it was not so. It did indeed say 14 euros on the back, and despite the fact that it didn´t actually say anything about two gamepads, you could definetly see through the clear plastic, the exquisite beauty of it all. It did indeed have two plugs, one on each side of it´s magnificent cheap ass clear blue plastic shell.
Despite me being skeptical, I bought it. On my return to my humble abode, I proceeded to unpack greatness, and was presented with a generic CDR labeled “A” with a marker. I was scared there for a moment, but I plugged in greatness itself into my laptop anyway. No drivers where asked for. I went into the control panel and I see the two ps2 gamepads being recognized correctly. I then ran Kawaks and procceded to play some Garou - Mark of the Wolves, the response was great. It felt great. The friggin analogs sticks work too. I never figured out what the damn “A” CDR actually had. I then remembered I had only spent 14 euros in greatness, and laughed at the world while I basked myself in bliss. Today is thursday, and I´m still laughing.
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