But for the first time ever, I found my daughters and myself sitting around the big TV riveted to not just one game, but a whole series of games.
Judging by video shot that day, the inside of the crown looked like the cabin of a ship, with metal beams and big bolts and rivets.
She has documented their activities, which include hunting, killing and eating bugs much bigger than themselves, in riveting, comically nightmarish stop-action videos.
A Rosie (Big Daddy with a rivet gun) is more of a coward than its counter part.
Her story is better than Diane's – a riveting drama of big egos, corrupted institutions, divided loyalties, conflicted motives, personal anguish, and, yes, real debate about science and saving the planet.
The Jacobsen boat steers close enough to count the rivets in the big ship's looming expanse of steel plating; close enough to lean out and touch the rivets.
But she might also be surprised to see how many programs hew to the "American Family" formula: one of MTV's biggest current hits is the riveting "Teen Mom" franchise, which follows a handful of young mothers as they negotiate shifting cultural realities and stubborn biological ones, building American families of their own.
But realistically who in big tech would have been more riveting?
I was reminded of the Big Yellow Taxi while watching the riveting, FRONTLINE documentary "Digital Nation" which airs on PBS Tuesday night and online thereafter.
Walter Stahr's even-handed account, the first big biography of Jay in decades, is riveting on the matter of negotiating tactics, as practised by Adams, Jay and Franklin.
