Deirdre Saoirse Moen

Development

deirdre — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:03:13 +0000

I’m working with WebKit.

Writing

deirdre — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:01:47 +0000

I write science fiction and fantasy, and I have a story in a Mike Resnick anthology from BenBella.

Our Europe Trip

deirdre — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:35:39 +0000

For those who want to read about our recent trip to Europe (and Egypt and Asian Turkey), posts can be found here.

Great Photos of Africa

deirdre — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:38:00 +0000

Grant Kruger found some fabulous aerial photos of Africa.

You know you want to see them.

Go look.

Now.

Pantheacon

deirdre — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:29:34 +0000

I’m sort of torn between sites these days, but for those of you who are interested in such subjects, my notes about Pantheacon can be found on my LJ.

Things to Do When You’re Sick, Part 104

deirdre — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:04:00 +0000

What do you do when you’ve got a sore throat, can’t sleep, and silly pictures of cats send you into coughing fits?

Make some cat macros of your own, perhaps.

Idiot Bicyclist

deirdre — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:45:00 +0000

My mother and I were driving into downtown Menlo Park today, stopped at a stop sign. A woman with a wheelchair was crossing the street, so I decided to wait. Just then, a bicyclist plows through the stop sign, across the intersection, and nearly hits the woman in the wheelchair.

At the next intersection, he didn’t even slow down for the stop sign, just plowed through.

I never thought I’d consider it justifiable homicide if a bicyclist got hit, but this dude changed my mind on that point, because he has such utter disregard for rules and safety.

New Pictures from an Old Trip

deirdre — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:44:00 +0000

In 1996, my first husband (Richard Savino) and I went to Newgrange with my father on our wedding trip.

Today, I got a CD with scans of the photos (some of which I’d taken), including some I’d never seen.

One of those photos was of Richard at Newgrange.

I’ve got to say, it’s incredibly weird to see new photos of someone who’s been dead ten years. It’s even weirder to tweak them in Photoshop.

Here’s the photos with Richard in them. And here’s all the Ireland photos. At the moment, the two sets are the same, but I have about 80 more pictures to put up.

Theft: One Palm Tree

deirdre — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:16:00 +0000

My mother wanted one thing for her birthday: a palm tree. A very specific palm tree.

She didn’t actually get it on her birthday, which fell on a Thursday, but we did get it to her shortly thereafter. A good thing, because mom was told she had cancer on her birthday.

She’d put it out in one area of the front yard, one that people come and steal plums from (because no one’s really known who the land belonged to).

Naturally, with cancer surgery and recovery and then the rainy season setting in, it was still in its pot, though put in its appointed place.

She last remembers seeing it this weekend, but noticed today that it had gone. Lacking locomotion of its own, that means someone nipped our palm tree.

Cancer: Symptom to Cure in 19 days

deirdre — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:33:00 +0000

My mother recently discovered she had cancer.

It went like this:

October 19, she called the Kaiser advice nurse.

October 20, she had an appointment to see her Ob-Gyn.

October 26 (her birthday, unfortunately), she gets the news she’s got endometrial cancer.

Nov 1, she has an appointment with the gynecologic oncologist.

Nov 7, she has surgery.

Later that week, it’s confirmed by the pathologist that they got all the cancer.

Nov 20, she returns to work.

There’s so many bad stories about cancer out there, I figured someone could use a good one.