Sitting in front of my monitor for all of those hours I felt as engrossed and simply swept away as any game has made me feel in recent years.
In 2000, a 26-year-old Web designer from Berkeley, Calif., named Damian Hess was playfully rapping into his computer "for an audience of my monitor and a couple of Star Wars figurines" and strung together a song called "Nerdcore Hiphop".
More precisely, I was looking at an image fitted for my home monitor, unreduced for the laptop.
It's not exactly world-shattering news, but it is nice to know what in the future I'm not going to be saddled with triple-DVI connections for my 2K monitor.
But then, my days sort of blend into one another, staring at my monitor for hour after hour as the world buzzes around me.
Right now my wife earns minimum wage working as a hallway monitor for my son's elementary school.
:-x I'd rather not say in an e-mail that's being monitored for my protection.
On that rainy winter morning two months ago, I was being monitored for my third and final IUI or Intrauterine Insemination, which is when sperm is inserted directly into the uterus to facilitate fertility.
"Obviously they are looking out for my best interests, trying to monitor my minutes," McGrady said Wednesday.
They too were in the "green room" at 30 Rock, and when the promo for my segment came on the monitor, the guys asked, "Is she here?
