Shannon Jiménez

Wow... Can't wait to see the finished product! - Ross Miller

Looks like hours last year down to replacing the floorboards and ceiling too. It's fully functional now and a huge improvement, so hang on there is hope. - Steve C, Team Marina

"Frances Blaisdell, a flutist who played her way into what was then the male world of orchestral music, becoming one of the early women to play a woodwind instrument with the New York Philharmonic, died on March 11 in Portola Valley, Calif. She was 97. In addition to playing with the Philharmonic, Ms. Blaisdell performed with prominent chamber ensembles, on Broadway, at Radio City Music Hall, in vaudeville, and with Phil Spitalny and His All-Girl Orchestra on the “Hour of Charm” on CBS and NBC radio. She also taught generations of leading flutists." - Shannon Jiménez

Mrs. Blaisdell was my flute teacher at Stanford and I just found out she passed away. She was such an amazing woman and a wonderful teacher. Even though she was 97, she was teaching up until a few weeks before she died. - Shannon Jiménez

I agree Anna. I understand that for some (me) starting with a puppy is better than with an adult dog if for no other reason than ease of training. I also understand that sometimes people (me) want a specific bread and that cannot always be accompolished through a rescue (I dont qualify for the local rescues because I dont have a fenced yard). But the 'support' they will have raising a dog outweight that of a small town...there would be no obstacles to rasing a rescue. - Shannon - GlassMistress

We can be pretty sure this dog did not come from a puppy mill though - there are no portuguese water dog puppy mills, they are (were) not a fashionable breed. Too smart, too active etc. There might be now if every stupid person want the same breed, but hopefully it will be hard for puppy mill type people to get their hands on a breeding pair - much easier to make some poodle/lab crosses and sell them off as porties. And exactly what is not "all american" about this dog? - Iphigenie

Was your Easter basket empty this morning? :( - Anne Bouey

@jcunwired: how fast can you get it here? :) - Shannon Jiménez

The Mafa people, who live in the far north of Cameroon in the Mandara mountains, are one of the most culturally isolated groups in the world. Since many of their settlements lack electricity, there are some individuals who have never been exposed to western movies, art, or music. But the Mafa do have their own musical tradition. Many of their ceremonies are accompanied by a unique chorus of flutes of varying sizes, which can produce different pitches by covering and uncovering a small hole at their tip. The music they produce is quite different from Western-style music. Because of their isolation and very different musical tradition, they can help answer a question that has perplexed music scholars and psychologists for generations: are there musical "universals"? In other words, do the emotions conveyed by music depend on what we've learned through our culture, or can anyone perceive the emotion intended by a composer of a given musical work? Does "good" or pleasant music have... - Shannon Jiménez

We got it when I was six. It's "portable"! - Shannon Jiménez

Here's what mine looked like (with a TV and a tape recorder to load programs): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174.... Times were great! :) - Artem Boytsov

"Hence the "wars" of Caro's book title, which he's in a unique position to document, as it was his March 29, 2005, Tribune article that sparked this country's most famous fight over foie gras, the one that resulted in Chicago's ordinance (since repealed) prohibiting restaurants from selling the dish. If he bears any guilt over what his work wrought, Caro doesn't show it, although he doesn't particularly seem enthused about it, either. Instead, he uses that particular war -- which ended up accomplishing little save embarrassing Chicago -- as the jumping-off point for a tour of the world of foie gras, in which he visits with the farmers and chefs who produce and sell it as well as, most memorably, the activists who protest their doing so. After all that, Caro ends up coming down on the side of the people producing foie gras, not the ones pushing to have it outlawed. His readers are likely to do the same, largely because that's the side supported by nearly all the available evidence." - Shannon Jiménez

"Brick Window (2003)- Metropolitan Transit Authority in collaboration with Unknown Artists- Glass Bricks with Ink marker- This piece inverts the typical window by making it from opaque bricks, set within a larger opaque wall. This opens the dialogue between the lower spaces of the MTA subway and the upper world where sunlight would necessitate such windows. The null opacity of the glass is called to attention by the use of ink markers." - Shannon Jiménez

Rare panels showing monsters, gods and serpents in an ancient creation myth are found in El Mirador, the ruined Mayan city in Guatemala. - Shannon Jiménez

I was alternately falling asleep and gagging from the gore. Though I have to admit the overall concept/story is interesting, the movie was AWFUL. - Shannon Jiménez

Yeah, that's what I've heard. - Anne Bouey

Another one! Happy Birthday!!! - FFing Enigma

You're over 900 years old, too, Shannon? NO WAI! :) - Steven Perez

"In a victory for absent-minded scribblers everywhere, one study now suggests that doodling can help your memory." - Shannon Jiménez

Regardless of the type of extra material added to the class, neither group did very well on the exam. - Anne Bouey

I noticed that too! - Shannon Jiménez

"In honor of President's Day in the U.S., I bring you this work of "art," generated on the basis of a survey of 1,001 Americans' preferences about art" - Shannon Jiménez

"When an English speaker doesn't understand a word one says, it's "Greek to me". When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it "sounds like Chinese". I've been told the Korean equivalent is "sounds like Hebrew"....And here's (some of) the information in the Wikipedia and Omniglot tables, presented as a directed graph courtesy of graphviz:" - Shannon Jiménez

Larger version of the graph at the link-- turns out Chinese is the most popular "incomprehensible" language. - Shannon Jiménez

"Ever wonder if those bizarre cases Dr. Gregory House cracks every week on TV really happen? Like many med dramas, the Fox series has MD consultants, and like another successful franchise, Law & Order, the plots from House are ripped from the headlines — in this case, out of medical journals." - Shannon Jiménez

Using http://www.yourfonts.com/. Seen here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Shannon Jiménez

Que buena letra Shannon. Con tildes y eñes :D - Juan Pablo González

"The four-year investigation into judging at America's oldest wine contest found that only one in ten judges ever regularly rated a wine the same. The California State Fair wine competition, tested judges' consistency by giving them repeat samples of the same wine during large blind tasting sessions. It discovered that 90 per cent of the judges failed to give identical samples poured from the same bottle matching or close scores at repeated tastings. One panel of judges even rejected a particular vintage twice only to award it a double-gold medal the third time they sampled it." - Shannon Jiménez

it's all scam. wine in a box! - Cee Bee

box wine FTW - Richard Lawler

this is a related article, which i posted back in july: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Cee Bee

"I imagine the same questions are racing through your brilliant mind as were racing through mine on that fateful day. What is this? Why have I been given it? What have I done to deserve this? And, which one is the starter, which one is the desert?" - Shannon Jiménez

I don't care if it's real or not-- it is hilarious! - Shannon Jiménez

"I do agree with the main point I think she was trying to make: that America should publish more books in translation. I agree that books in languages of small diffusion (and I would add from countries that aren’t in the G8) face particularly steep challenges before being published in the U.S. I agree that it’s a shame that Americans are shielded from any unnecessary non-English interference in their daily lives. I agree that the Bible feels different in different languages. And I agree that books do occasionally change the course of history. That said, it’s a big pet peeve of mine when people claim that Americans have no culture (I find Europeans are the worst about this). And Kushner pushes just about every peeve button I can think of. By the end of the article, I felt like slapping some sense into her (well, not really)." - Shannon Jiménez

The author doesn't seem to realize that the burrito was invented in San Francisco. Burritos aren't "translated", they're the perfect example of fusion culture invented in the USA. - Kevin