I found out today, that by unplugging the cable from the back of my cable modem and hooking it up to my television I can, in fact, receive TV signal. Perhaps this is intended operation but I most certainly did not subscribe to a television package — I pay for internet. While I don’t get anything in HD, several channels are in Spanish, and a good one-third are shopping-based… I do get C-SPAN.

Granted, most of the year C-SPAN is incredibly boring to everyone but serious political pundits or the occasional Poly-sci major, but for the next few days the Democratic National Committee is hosting the Democratic Convention in Colorado. I’m excited that I get to watch.

C-SPAN, for those that don’t know, is a commercial free broadcast of the political process funded by a consortium of cable companies.