DVD night : Papaya to the rescue
Relaxing in the evening on the weekends and watching a DVD with Ika has become something we I enjoy. She has an old TV and a DVD player, I bought a few DVD’s and a friend lent me some new one’s. We push the small bamboo table in front of 2 chairs and set everything up using my 10m extension cord (don’t live here without one) and a triple plug adapter. True to form the equipment gives off an electric shock if you touch it, so Ika uses a cloth.
The equipment reminds me of when I was a kid in the 70’s. I remember evenings of standing holding the aerial so we could watch a western, the frame hold flying all over the place if I moved. With Ika’s equipment the line-in / out sockets are loose and we lost the movie about 10 times last night. My solution was to figure out just how the line-out plug needed to be supported. It needed a little push up and I achieved this by placing a papaya on top of the machine and using a electric cable to wrap around the plug. The cable then went over the papaya and off the other end of the machine, attached to a cloth (for a bit of weight) with 2 clothes pegs (man I should of been on the space shuttle!). This provided some uplift and we saw City of God, the movie about a young photographer growing up in a Rio slum (Canuki Chris you might like this).
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ROFL. The Papaya Connection!! I gotta love it, Nick. Here the audio/video-phile will spend hundreds of bucks just for the right Monster cable and are so worried about signal loss (usually perceived) that they’ll spend $75-100 bucks on a cable that was made in China for $1.50.
On the other side of the coin, wide screen high def LCD’s & 42″ Plasmas are big sellers here and after spending all those bucks on a set, they are trying to cheapen and not spend the $20 extra in high def programming on cable. Since local TV stations broadcast in high def “on the air” for free, we are back to external antennas on the roof. The bow tie and rabbit ears are making a come back. Just like you remembered, except it’s digital now.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll have to check out the local Blockbuster’s inventory for the flic.