After spending four years in an engineering curriculum and the last several years designing structures I would like to think I have an above average appreciation for numbers. Every day I throw around an exorbitant amount of figures, checking this versus that and verifying that I have numbers to back up my solutions.
That being [...]

In the spirit of David Allen’s Getting Things Done I have, in the last year or so, been essentially iconless on my desktop. I have come to think of my desktop as a sort of inbox where any icons piling up are just unprocessed or not-dealt-with information (a.k.a. clutter) that decreases my productivity. [...]

Because there is something else more productive to do with 4 hours of your life each day. This first point sort of encompasses them all.
To extend the life of your couch cushions
Because you can get the weather in less than half the time on the internet.
Because the nightly local news is as about as useful [...]