Second would be the work on the interactive fiction. This has made me really curious about what's out there. If nothing else, I want to try reading books on the iPad and see how I like that. It makes me curious about how I can incorporate this is in my everyday work and how I can get into creating an app.
Shannon, I find your design intriguing. I don't think it's a problem that you don't see the missing finger right away. I like the mystery there, that you don't see it immediately and can wonder about it, have something more to discover. The bars or stripes add another layer or dimension. I dig the texture of the hand.