http://www.danielferrante.net Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:59:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During class today, two of my coeds asked the professor to define these words: excited stressed dynamic Also, another person in my class saw my tattoo and asked me if it will still be there after I shower. Sometimes I feel like I'm in High School, not Graduate School. Today I felt like I was ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2008/09/26/remedial-graduate-studies/ Despite mediocre live music, some guy wearing a colander on his head (was he supposed to be the Tin Man?) and my inability to find the girl in the purple strapless dress, the Emerald City Ball ended quite well. And who needs a girl in a purple strapless dress when you ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2008/07/06/peers-emerald-city-ball/ Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. http://www.danielferrante.net/2008/06/21/my-inspiration/ When at a social dance, please remember that it is inappropriate to tell a girl that she'd make a great stripper. Furthermore, I do NOT need to know which local strip clubs have girls that are willing to go home with patrons for the right price. Finally, if you stopped spending ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2008/06/20/thoughts-on-social-dancing/ A few weeks ago, an article drawing from a press release from PEER ran on skeptic.com that stated (I paraphrase here) that the US Park Service at the Grand Canyon Park Service Rangers were NOT allowed to discuss the actual age of the Grand Canyon due to pressure from the ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2007/01/23/this-is-how-its-done/ Dijon and Owls My first memory of Dijon - well, actually, my very first memory will be the drug deal I saw go down outside the train station just after I arrived. Beyond that, my first memory will be looking down at the ground at these brass or bronze arrows leading around ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2006/11/03/dijon-france/ D.F. Phone Home I've found a place to live. It's in Cupertino, near Valco Fashion Park - and when did Valco start going through such a transformation? It used to be on the verge of dying, now there's a ton of construction going on! Wow. I've also begun biking to work. This ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2006/05/15/settling-in/ My last girlfriend - some two or three years ago - lied to me. Not a small lie. She lied about being in college, she lied about her relationship with her family. She lied about her ex-boyfriend. When I found out, I kicked her out. She was cried. I simply told ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2006/04/18/less-crying-more-packing/ It's an English lesson, it's a song, it's BOTH! Alanis Morissette's Ironic is an easy lesson. It has irony, metaphor and similes. This is by no means an original idea, but in the waning days of my time here in France, an easy lesson is always welcome. All my students liked the ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2006/03/16/ironic/ Another one of my major French speaking coups: The first time I visited France, I had been studying French for less than a year; and that saying about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing - it's true. At Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, I had to use the restroom ... http://www.danielferrante.net/2006/03/03/ou-on-se-trouve-le-toilet/