Distorted

The newsletter of the dreaded “282 Alumni” arrived yesterday, Thursday, July 15, 2010.
The so-called “Alumni” are the union retirees (Local 282, the Rochester local of the nationwide Amalgamated Transit Union) of Regional Transit Service.
For 16&1/2 years (1977-1993) I drove transit bus for Regional Transit (RTS).
The Alumni was a reaction to the fact Transit management retirees ran roughshod over union retirees — a continuation of the bad vibes at Transit, management versus union.
Transit had a club for long-time employees, and I was in it. It was called the “15/25-year Club;” I guess at first the “25-year Club.” But they lowered the employment requirement, and renamed it “15/25-year Club.” The employment requirement was lowered even more; I joined at 10 years.
My employ there ended in 1993 with my stroke; and the “Alumni” didn’t exist then. The Alumni is a special club — you have to join.
“Dreaded” because all my siblings are flagrantly anti-union.
It had pictures on its front-page, two of our recent train-ride.
Sorry, but they’re immensely distorted. (See above.)
Well, the photos weren’t taken by a professional photographer, and I bet the photos were Word inserts.
Far as I know, the Alumni newsletter is done with Microsoft Word®, just like my 282 News was.
Word will do photo inserts as file-objects; spreadsheets, photos, whatever.
I never did photo inserts in my 282 News; don’t know if I could have — that was 17 years ago.
That was an ancient app. My operating-system was Windows 3.1.
So the editor of the Alumni newsletter inserted the two photos, but they didn’t fill the entire page.
They were probably only half a page wide.
That looked weird, so what to do?
I got it! Just stretch out the pictures horizontally to full page width.
HEX-KYOOZE ME; that distorts the picture.
It’s just the “282 Alumni newsletter,” so I shouldn’t be so critical.
But I laughed when I saw it.

• I had a stroke October 26, 1993.
• During my final year at Transit, I did a voluntary union newsletter on my computer. It was called “The 282 News.”
• “App” equals computer software application.