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Sarah BrodwallI'm a 31 year old American expat living in Oslo, Norway, with my bulldog, Ada, and my husband, Johannes. My interests include interaction design, especially information architecture, philosophy of mind and ethics, cognitive psychology, sociobiology, feminism, yoga, fat acceptance, knitting, pottery, and cooking.

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23 March 2007

Brodwall’s Law

I was reading this mildly interesting Salon article about which foods should be refrigerated whin I came to this realization:

In any internet article or discussion relating to food, someone will mention that Americans are fat, regardless of that fact’s relevance to the actual subject matter.

Very similar to Godwin’s Law. Help me come up with a better name.

Posted at 17:35
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The One True Keyboard

I’ve finally gotten it.

IBM Model M 1391401

The IBM Model M 1391401. I love to type on these things. Perhaps that means I will post more. Yeah. I haven’t posted as I’ve been extremely depressed this fall and winter. I doubt I’
m coming out of it now, but who knows.

I’ve been using a keyboard with a Norwegian layout since I moved here in 1999. since they’re better for HTML coding; it’s going to take some time to get used to the US layout again. It’s also going to take some training to get back the strength in my fingers for typing on the model M since I’ve been using toy keyboards for so long.

Anyway, I am pleased. I have wanted one of these for a long time.

Posted at 17:23
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