If you’re visiting Random Musings with Firefox 1.5, you’ll notice the posts are divided into columns. This is a test of a proposed CSS3 design property. If you have any complaints, leave me a comment on this post. I’ll be playing with the design to see how I like it.
So far, I noticed on one of my longer posts, it could get annoying to have to scroll back up to start the second column.
If you’re not using Firefox 1.5, everything will look the same.
This test will run between now and around Christmas.
December 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment
firefox 1.5 css3 draft testing
December 8, 2005 By Leave a Comment
cancelled classes and all-nighters
Sometimes, the news of a weather day comes with great joy.
Other times, you’ve been awake since 9 a.m. the previous day working throughout the night on a paper due at 5 p.m. Of course, you could have done the paper before the night before, but that ship has already sailed.
So, at 1 p.m., your roommate sends you an IM asking if you’ve heard anything regarding The University closing at 2 p.m. You look outside the window- it’s cold but nothing that would merit a closure. His employer, a research branch of UT, sent an e-mail out announcing the closure at 12:53 p.m.
You- in shock and wonder- search the UT home page and check your e-mail. You can find nothing regarding a closure.
You call the UT General Information Line and they confirm this rumor. The University is closed effective at 2 p.m. Nothing can officially occur after that time, including the physical submission of papers. Then it sinks in- you stayed up all night to work on a paper that isn’t due.
Your professor e-mails you and says that the UT-designated makeup time conflicts for him so the papers are due one week from today.
Here’s to the slacker who went to sleep last night thinking “eh, doesn’t matter if I finish this paper”- cheer.
December 7, 2005 By Leave a Comment
ut/ucc closed
University to close today due to forecast of inclement weather
December 7, 2005
Due to today’s forecast of inclement weather, the university will officially close beginning at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 7) and reopen at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Dec. 8). Employees who must work to provide essential services and functions will receive state compensatory time.
All university buildings normally locked by night custodial staff will be locked by the day custodial staff immediately after closure.
Classes and exams scheduled for this afternoon will be made up on Monday (Dec. 12) using the same class or exam schedule and location. Classes and exams scheduled for tomorrow morning before 10 a.m. will be made up on Tuesday (Dec. 13) using the same class or exam schedule and location. If this “last” class meeting is not necessary, faculty may cancel the class.
Human Resource Services will provide instructions on recording time to department HR contacts.
December 4, 2005 By 2 Comments
old rite of confirmation
In the old rite of Confirmation- previous to the reforms following Vatican II- the Bishop used to give the newly-confirmed a “blow on the cheek”. This symbol was used to indicate that followers of Christ may have to suffer for Him.
This usually doesn’t happen currently but ya know, I would laugh if a Bishop ever just clocked someone. Imagine that symbol there.
December 1, 2005 By Leave a Comment
holy father’s intentions for december
For all men and women: May they come to an ever-deeper understanding of their dignity, granted them by the Creator in his plan.
For people all over the world in searching for God and Truth: May they encounter the Lord Jesus.
As December, the month of our celebration of our Lord entering into the flesh, comes again, may we really reflect on what that means. Our Lord, God himself, the Creator of all that is became one of his created. He humbled himself to be born of a woman and become man. There is a certain dignity that we, as human beings, all possess. It doesn’t matter whether we are rich or poor, live in a large home, a small apartment or a box in an alley way, have a large loving family or are alone and rejected by the world- we all have the dignity afforded to us by simply being human.
May I also suggest that this is all that any of us really have. We “own” many things- cars, computers, homes, textbooks, large debts, memories, loved ones. We claim these things to be our own- whether it be actual possession or not. The simple truth is that at the end of the Day, when we go into our peaceful rest, the one thing that remains and will always remain is our human dignity. One of the ways to measure our lives is how well did we respect that dignity. How well do we respect that dignity both in ourselves and in our brothers and sisters, espcially the ones among us who are least respected by the world.
