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# I'll win yet
I am trying out using my left hand to control the mouse, prompted by reading an article linked to by Lifehacker:
By switching the side of your mouse-pad you will force yourself to use your non-dominant hand. This, in turn, will stimulate the neural connections between the right and left hemispheres on your brain. Scientific research confirmed that people that use both hands equally have 10% more nerve fibers joining the two sides of the brain.
Three easy ways to improve your brainpower
I can tell you after trying it for a morning, it seems weird more than clumsy. It does take me twice as long to get the cursor where I want it to be, but I get there without wavering all around the target. After a few hours though, it started feeling a little trippy when I type – I am putting this down to my mind fighting back, determined to defeat my attempts to outflank it by building more connections between the hemispheres.
As yet neither of us has been willing to escalate the war to the level of using weapons of mass destruction – I refuse to beat it into submission by firing up a meth pipe and it isn’t making me remember that regrettable occasion that some bastard sent me off to see the tubgirl image. But if I can’t beat it to the sea this time, if I get stuck in the trenches too much longer…well, who knows.
