outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

when TV breaks down

it becomes a problem for isolationist cultures. Community cultures are not so much bothered by it because their real live people community continues with or without TV and electricity. Thus for the last 12 hours or so and whenever we have a blackout, it is a bother for isolationist culture because our pseudo-people-contact leaves us feeling as if we are in fact isolated - if you know what I mean. The accompanying message explains what the problem was.
"Hi All
Our campus cable tv system was out as of late yesterday afternoon. The air condition unit for the room broke down. We were not able to have it fixed in time. The breakdown of the air condition caused a failure in one of the power supply for the line amplifier on site. A decoder is also faulty and being attended to. We could not let the system run without the air condition because we might cause more damage. We had to shut down.

We sincerely appologies for the outage.
We hope to fix problem today."

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