Wow!  Now I know what it means when the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

I was tweaking some code in the Arduino servo subroutine to pull a thumb and forefinger together, totally missing the fact that the artificial hand had decided to pick up an X-ACTO knife on its own initiative.

Well, you can guess what happened.  I’m using my one-handed keyboard from Matias to complete this blog entry.

As soon as my iPad 3 arrives, I’ll download the half-keybd app to write the next blog entry while my scientists regrow a pinky finger for me, with nearly identical prints to the one that’s no longer attached.

But now is not the time to count the number of confessed Democrats who switched sides and voted for Rick Santorum in the Tennessee election yesterday, led by famed anarchist XYZipper, a part-time paid volunteer for pharmaceutical test labs, whose intake of every failed drug has turned the anarchist into a genderless zombie unable to feel sympathy and thus willing to vote willynilly, as the wind blows or the politicos crow.

I exchanged texts with him earlier this morning:

ME: Yo, it’s me.

XYZipper: Yo, me. is it really me or are you someone else?

ME: It’s me.

X: Whoaa…i’m tawking to myself again.

ME: Maybe. Say, you voted yesterday?

X: I did?

ME: That’s what local news outlets reported.

X: Kewl. What does voted meen?

ME: You got in line with people and selected names on a ballot.

X: Oh, yeah.  Did i win?

ME: Win?

X: Yeah, that was lottery ticket, right?  Powerball’s up to $300 m, ain’t it?

ME: A lottery to some, not you.

X: I didn’t win?

ME: No.

X: So thinking I selek names insted of numbers don’t werk in the lotto?

ME: No.

X: Bummer.  Hey, u wanna score some weed?  I gotta pay rent.

ME: No thx.  CU later.

X: Bye.

What can I say that XYZipper didn’t say already?  With his mohawk haircut and totally tattooed body, he could probably win any number of elections, except where adverts blast the airwaves with “I’m more conservative than myself.”

Gotta go.  The scientists have rigged my solar-powered pinky with a laser cutter and ad-hoc wireless hub that I requested.  Let’s see if it fits!