Rantings of
The Romantic Egotist
A place where one twisted individual will attempt entertain the masses by ranting about the stupidity of life.  Hey, everyone's entitled to an opinion. If what is written here offends you, leave, no one's making you stay.

November 23/24:
        Some idiot, who shall remain nameless unless you ask certain people who know his name, made a two page spread personal ad that was ludicriously big. How big? To start off, this narcissist had the nerve to put 46 pictures of himself on a spread!! geez. can we say self-absorbed? (hey, I thought I was going to be the egotist here!) Not only that instead of cropping and tagging the pictures, which is normally done on color ads, so the plant could scan them, this idiot decided to scan every single one of them (apparently the "precious" pictures of his ugly self can't risk being lost).  This normally isn't that bad.
        Never underestimate the stupidity of a human being, they can always surprise you.  Anyone especially a yearbook staffer knows that when you use a real life picture cropper, you set it to the size of your picture, lock it in place and slide it to fit your photo in the proportions of the picture, not the actual size!  Adobe photoshop also has a cropper. It does the same damn thing! So why can't a guy who's spent 3 years on the yearbook staff figure out that his 4 x 6 and  5 x 7 photos scanned at 100% scaling will still be about those sizes even after he crops them in photoshop?! At 600 dpi this means of the 46 photos (already an obscene number) about 15 are between 30 and 40 megabytes in size, all because this unamed loser didn't think to resize his photos which would appear on the spread no bigger than 2 x 2 inches each!!
        So when I went to prepare the deadline files for shipping off the publishing plant, I find that his one spread and all of its 46 freakin' pictures take up a total of 851 megabytes!! That doesn't even fit on one CD-ROM!!  To give you an idea
of how that compares to other ads, a total of 49 spreads are being turned in for this deadline in ads.  Of those I had processed all but 7 and the total came to 346 megabytes for those remaining spreads.  At least four ads among the reamaining also had placed pictures (one was even another double page spread) and yet those did not take up that much space (probably because they weren't made by a goddamn narcissist who can't figure out that when a page takes 2 hours to print there is something horribly wrong!).  Because of this random act of stupidity (which ultimately crashed the file server due to the immense amounts of data being handled) 3 people lost about 2 hours worth of work and I could have finished processing the entire deadline today before 5pm, instead I ended up spending 2 hours fixing this airhead's blunder! Sucks to be the techie.  Ready to stone the moron?