An interesting presentation about nature's tendency to sync. In my opinion, only the second half is worth watching. Kristina, if you read this, the metronome experiment made me think of our discussion the other day about the blinking of turn signals.

Rather cool representation of the global air traffic over a 24 hour period. If you look closely, you'll spot Santa swoop down from the North Pole and his elves zooming around the Arctic Region a couple of times in there.

Wow, I didn't realize it until now but it's a week from Christmas! However, significantly more exciting (in my opinion) is the fact that the fall semester is finally OVER! Now I can have time to catch up on other tasks.

Anyways, to make up for the lack of posts here recently, I've decided to assemble a list of material things under $100 that I wouldn't mind receiving for Christmas. It's only a list of five since there's nothing that I really want...sort of.

Integrity by Dr. Cloud $16.49	Netflix Player by Roku $99.95	Bodum Pavina 2-ounce Double-walled thermo glasses, set of two
Little Big Planet for the PS3 $59.99	Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution for the PS3 $39.99

For those who are really in the mood of giving, here's the rest of my Amazon Wish List.

Lately I've been dealing with some struggles and haven't been able to wrap myself around them enough to know what to do. So with every occurance similar to this, I try to break my mental state down to the most possibly simplistic way of perception. And with that said, in the midst of a cold apartment in the middle of the night, I have concluded with this outlook:

With strong developed roots, one must choose how to grow once removed from the pot. The only essential things for survival are faith and the ability to remain focused on not losing oneself. Always maintain that connection, because it is from within where these roots originate.