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Several things. Inspired by this post over at wifeadvice.com I decided to write up a post about what I am thankful for in my marriage. It’s a little late for Thanksgiving but I still like the idea.

I am thankful that I have someone to:

1. Keep the bed warm on those cold nights.
2. Bring me lunch while I’m at work.
3. Scratch my back when I can’t reach it.
4. Help me do the chores.
5. Take care of me when I’m ill.
6. Keep me in  line when I’m being a jerk.
7. Navigate when I get lost (which happens often).
8. Joke around with.
9. Talk to about anything.
10. Serve as my personal memory (because my memory really is terrible, I rely on my wife in this role).
11. Make me laugh.
12. Share my dreams with.
13. Make fun of people with (yep, we do that pretty often… there is no shortage of morons out there. It’s pretty fun to point them out… and have a laugh at their expense).
14. There’s more, I’m sure… but I would have to ask my wife because I’ve forgotten them. :P

Yeah, our relationship isn’t perfect, we fight from time to time, and we really are two different people… but it’s fun most of the time. Our biggest problem is that we don’t get to spend enough time with each other. I am thankful for the time we do get to spend together though.

I liked this little exercise, I would certainly encourage anyone who is married or even dating to sit down and make just such a list. Even if it is funny and joking around. It’s worth a try anyhow.

Type to you later,
~Nathaniel

Sine: Collective Minds

I had a very wild dream this morning. It could very well turn into an interesting book/movie/TV series/game. In the dream a group of people started trying to develop a new and unique operating system for computers. However, they began work with incorporating technology and the human consciousness. The first thing they realized was that if they got people to unify their thoughts that they could communicate telepathically. Eventually they discovered that getting enough minds to work in unison gave the group the ability to use certain psychic/metaphysical abilities. In order to facilitate the unison of minds, they developed a chip that could easily be installed in the back of the neck. This chip allowed the person to “connect” with everyone else who wore the chip. Essentially this produced one collective mind, or rather used everyone in the “network” as a node in a biological super computer… which resembled one mind. This made them all super smart and by directing their thoughts on one purpose, they could use abilities like pyrokinesis, telekinesis, etc… The name of the chip was the Sine (Not sure why… I think it had something to do with the signal it transmitted). There was also a biological agent that they had to infect a person with in order for the chip to work properly. Some where resistant or immune to the virus that made up this agent, these people formed the resistance against the Sine.

The Sine didn’t care about anything but making the connection stronger and increasing their power. They only ate to sustain themselves but skipped “civilized” steps such as slaughtering and cooking their meat. They did have certain nodes who worked solely improving current or creating new technology but for the most part, the rest of the Sine spent their time trying to expand “The wave” by “recruiting” more nodes. If you where resistant to the agent they could still enslave your mind but you couldn’t think for yourself and thusly couldn’t actually act as a decent node. These people where used for hard labor. Individuals who the Sine found to be completely immune to the agent where killed on the spot. Imagine a world where technology has gotten to the point to where people ignore all things civilized and essentially become beasts and machines. There is no love, only power. The entire world was rather post-apocalyptic in appearance except for the few automated Sine cities. They used robots and the enslaved to maintain them. Read the rest of this entry »