cable

The room at Chez Glo is rigged with cable television. Apparently only 2
months ago there were only 2 channels available, but now there is a
black box sitting on the t.v. that goes from 001 to 297! Most of the
channels are satellite reception from other countries in Africa and the
Middle East and in their native languages, but I still have access to
about 16 channels in English. In the mornings I've been watching BBC
world news and Aljazeera english news. I also found NHK, news from
Japan, although I prefer the first two. It's interesting to watch BBC
and Aljazeera back to back since they cover the same stories but usually
from slightly different angles. In any case, these days it's all news
about Hamas and Israel, India and Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers,
Zimbabwe politics, fires in Victoria and suspect of arson, bombing in
Iraq, and now the jet crash in New York. How uplifting!