Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Konka
About twelve years ago, I purchased a 16", purple television for my office at Baylor. It was only $19 brand new from Amazon, plus shipping. The maker, according to Amazon, was "Konka." It is the shipping that was the catch-- the thing weighed a ton! It also only got PBS. I chalked this anomaly up to the fact that it was a Chinese television, so it was used to only broadcasting state-owned stations.
The switch-over to digital television doomed the Konka (it gets nothing now), but I can't bring myself to get rid of it. It sits on top of the bookcase of my office, available for re-use. Any ideas?
The switch-over to digital television doomed the Konka (it gets nothing now), but I can't bring myself to get rid of it. It sits on top of the bookcase of my office, available for re-use. Any ideas?
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Hollow it out and build a diorama of your office inside, complete with miniature Konka tv. KONKCEPTION!
You can take all the TV guts out and make it into a little bookshelf, or a dog bed for a small dog or cat, or even a liquor cabinet (stocked with airplane bottles, since it's little). Or find an amazingly awesome picture and use it as a frame.
I'd be careful handling the guts of a Konka. Those things were made out of lead, strontium, spent uranium and rendered panda fat.
just cut out a picture of a screen shot from "saved by the bell" when that kooky group has gotten themselves into some predicament and stick it onto the screen of the TV. that way you can just sit back, look at the screen and replay that entire awesome episode in your mind.
also, sleepy walleye's comment made me laugh out loud. particularly the part about "rendered panda fat."
also, sleepy walleye's comment made me laugh out loud. particularly the part about "rendered panda fat."
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: 4:58 PM
: 4:58 PM
"...only got PBS"?
Be nostalgic - Now that you call Minnesota home, think Minnesota Public Radio and late evening car rides during your younger years.
A little electronic magic and effort and a radio that only picks up MPR broadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion" (state run station) would be the perfect transformation for your purple (Viking's color a bonus) "Konka."
Be nostalgic - Now that you call Minnesota home, think Minnesota Public Radio and late evening car rides during your younger years.
A little electronic magic and effort and a radio that only picks up MPR broadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion" (state run station) would be the perfect transformation for your purple (Viking's color a bonus) "Konka."
# posted by : 5:47 PM
: 5:47 PM
Instant reef off Osler Island.*
* But Sleepy Walleye is right -- the interior is full of stuff that's dangerous to the environment. Hire someone who doesn't know much to scoop it all out.
Bob
* But Sleepy Walleye is right -- the interior is full of stuff that's dangerous to the environment. Hire someone who doesn't know much to scoop it all out.
Bob
# posted by : 7:43 PM
: 7:43 PM
A backround lovely in front of which or on top of which,one might display one's substantial collection of Austrian porzellain and Sevres pandas.
Invent a dance called "The Konka," and choreograph a number for "America's got talent." Perhaps the set could be carried aloft by some of the dancers like an ancient fertility god.
Memorialize it by naming your first daughter after it and then hollow it out and put quilts in it for a nifty moderne cradle.
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Memorialize it by naming your first daughter after it and then hollow it out and put quilts in it for a nifty moderne cradle.
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