11] places blame for the obesity epidemic on Long Island on several factors: television, computers, eating patterns and the overall lack of exercise.
Participants who categorized themselves as morning types reported watching a little over eight minutes more of TV, spending about 18 minutes fewer on their computers, eating about a sixth of a serving more fruit and about a tenth of a serving more vegetables per day, on average, compared with the night owls.
Until then, I will be here, sitting at my computer, eating pizzaghetti attentively.
"Sitting there at my computer, eating a sandwich, I saw a listing showing several drawings and I knew immediately the drawings were special".
One morning I will be drinking a green smoothie, and later that same day, I will be sitting at my computer eating strawberry Twizzlers as if I were stuffing a wood chipper.
Instead of sitting around your computer eating slices of rice cheese while staring at Youtube sensation after Youtube sensation, why not get out and enjoy a small breath of fresh air before slumping into a dungeon of a movie theater?
The reasoning is that any activity is better than none for people who spend most of their lives sitting down — in a car, on the train, in front of a computer, eating meals, watching television or surfing the internet — then they should do what they can to take breaks from the reclined life.
The sewing computer ate my dish towel.
The next year, I got a an Apple II computer and eventually became the first kid in my school to turn in a computer-printed essay (and, shortly thereafter, the first to ask for an extension "because the computer ate my homework").
AMY DUBOIS BARNETT, the editor in chief of Honey magazine, is remarkably composed on a recent afternoon, particularly given that her computer ate every word of her essay on Aaliyah, the young pop singer who died in an August plane crash in the Bahamas.
The last thing you want to have happen when a new school year begins is to have to show up to class saying "the computer ate my homework" or to tell your friends that you can't share that great photo you snapped while you were out on the town having fun because you can't figure out where it ended up on your hard drive and it got deleted from your phone when you exported it.
