Dammit! As my friend Wes says, "Oh hey there, boundless human capacity for evil! I forgot you were standing right there, like always."

msbelle, do not read. [link]

OMG, I'm reading the internal manual for my job's new CRM system, and do you people actually use "CRUD matrix"??? That might be the funniest thing I've read today.

will not read.

I just stopped myself from doing something stupid. Go me!

OTOH Dev dude just came over to boss and I and said, "I did something..."

CRUD matrix

Never heard of it.

I sorta wish I hadn't.

It's so funny! It's for "whether a user is allowed to Create, Read, Update, or Delete" a record.

This is why I'm not reading whatever that article was -- I'm going to sit here and chuckle about the various clusterfucks currently happening at my job that I don't have to be involved with at all.

This font they apparently had to send us? Helvetica.

Well, it's so hard to get...

OH HOLY GOD, now they've sent a power point presentation for the designers to make graphics out of!

That's what, all of 150 ppi? What possible problem you could have getting that ready for a print publication of 300 ppi or better?

We have authors who (1) thieve copyrighted images off Web sites and tell us to use them [uh, NO, because it's illegal and also 72 goddamn dpi], (2) send us powerpoint slides, (3) send us something photocopied out of a textbook and ask us if we can scan it and "clean it up," and (4) authors who send 72 dpi art and, when we ask if they can send a higher-resolution file, ask "How do I make it bigger?"

AUTHOR FAIL.

(Of course, our boss routinely asks us, and I quote, "You make art smaller in Photoshop; why can't you make it bigger in Photoshop, too?" No matter how many times we explain why the results will be hideous -- and even demonstrate -- we know that within a month, he'll ask us that again and STILL be surprised by our answer.)

"You make art smaller in Photoshop; why can't you make it bigger in Photoshop, too?"

Um... just say, "You can make a steak smaller by eating part of it. But you can't make a steak bigger."

Or else say that "To make a graphic smaller, you throw away information. To make a graphic bigger requires information you don't have."

Or hit him over the head with a clue-by-four until he gets it... or no longer cares.

Heh.

San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above.

Ugh, Daisy, that link makes me despair for humanity.

Wackiness! In San Francisco!

Whodathunkit.