August 31, 2007

• my thumbprint

  so yesterday morning, like any other morning, i tried logging into bloomberg as soon as i got into work.  i punched in my username and password, then pressed my thumb onto the sensor thingie on the keyboard to scan and register, but an error message came out: “print quality too low, try again”.  i tried again; the same thing happened.  no thumbprint match = no access.  argh!  you probably won’t believe this but i tried north of twenty times, but my thumbprint still came out all static-y, i even tried changing keyboards (in case it was the damn board’s fault and not mine), washing my hands (in case there was dust on my thumb hence distorting the image), and putting on hand cream (in case my thumb was too dry)… none of which worked.

  unbelievable. 

  as there was apparently NO WAY you could skip getting your finger print scanned as part of the log-in process, in the end the tech guys had to recalibrate my finger print and i switched to using my middle finger to log-in instead.  the root of the problem?  either “the skin on [my] thumb was too thin” or “the lines on [my] thumb print were too light”. oh and apparently my middle finger “was the meatiest”, according to Gary from IT.  should i be flattered?

  what random things you learn about yourself thru the course of your life.

  

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