http://deirdre.net Sounds Like Weird Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:07:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm working with WebKit. http://deirdre.net/hello-world/ I write science fiction and fantasy, and I have a story in a Mike Resnick anthology from BenBella. http://deirdre.net/writing/ For those who want to read about our recent trip to Europe (and Egypt and Asian Turkey), posts can be found here. http://deirdre.net/our-europe-trip/ Grant Kruger found some fabulous aerial photos of Africa. You know you want to see them. Go look. Now. http://deirdre.net/great-photos-of-africa/ 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. http://deirdre.net/pantheacon/ 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. http://deirdre.net/things-to-do-when-youre-sick-part-104/ 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 ... http://deirdre.net/idiot-bicyclist/ 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 ... http://deirdre.net/new-pictures-from-an-old-trip/ 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 ... http://deirdre.net/theft-one-palm-tree/ 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 ... http://deirdre.net/cancer-symptom-to-cure-in-19-days/