Math and engineering online
The internet is pretty much endless.  You can find any kind of information for any topic you can possibly think of.  Or at least that's what I thought when I was in college, where I consistently reached dead ends when searching for math and engineering topics.  If I was looking for information on a particular equation or a method of solving a problem, I'd usually get a few results from Ph.D. papers and patent applications, most of which charged money.  (As soon as I see a search result that asks for money, I press the back button and usually never look at that site's results again.)  But there was definitely a void when it came to these topics. 

That changed somewhat recently, and I'm not really sure why.  Sites like Wolfram MathWorld and even Wikipedia have extensive amounts of information about highly specialized topics in engineering and math.  These sites usually mimic the things found in a typical text book, but occasionally they'll take it a step further and even link to related topics.  It's gotten to the point where I regularly use these sites as references because they've proven themselves to be so reliable.  It's good to be able to have another source of information when I reach a dead end.  Hurray internet! #math

Low score highlights
From the NFL's website
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Highlights from a 60-minute game where the score was tied at 0-0 for the first 59 minutes, 43 seconds?  Sign me up! #sports

Productivity (4)
It occurred to me yesterday that productivity is inversely proportional to time spent.  More accurately, productivity decreases exponentially with time.  In terms of math, productivity is a measure of task completion versus time spent.  For example, if I have a task to complete that has a measurable point of completion (e.g. starting at point A and moving to point B), the more time I spend on the task, the less productive I am. 
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Let's say I work on a project for two hours, and I don't reach my point of completion.  My productivity is exactly zero during this time period.  Sure I may have completed smaller portions of the project, and my productivity for each of those portions might be high.  But in the larger picture, I haven't completed the overall task, which means I haven't reached the goal of finishing the project, which means I haven't yet been productive. 

Now let's say I work for 15 minutes later in the day and I complete my project.  My productivity during this time period is four (1 task divided by 0.25 hours) (a relatively arbitrary value, but a value no less), which, no matter how you look at it, is way more than zero. 

The bottom line here is that the more time you spend on something, the less productive you'll be.  This just adds fuel to the "waiting till last minute" fire:  If you wait until the last minute to do something, it'll only take a minute. #business