Sarah Palin’s economy and the TaBrNaCl

What Would a Sarah Palin Economy Look Like? The list in that article is just the tip of the iceberg, as it were. And the worst part is, it’s still quite possible: she might run for president in 2012, and then she wouldn’t have to use John McCain as a puppet. But really, what would it be like? She might decide to buy Neiman Marcus entirely, and move all of its stores to D.C. so she could shop for designer clothes whenever she felt the urge. She might start an expensive war with Russia, as if we needed to go through another one of those. She would quash innovation, slowing the economy still further, and might even end up dragging the United States down to third world status.

Speaking of weird religious things, tabernacle has got to be one of the weirdest words I’ve ever come across. If you know your chemistry, you may already know where this is going based on the title of the post… I’ve been seeing the chemical formula NaCl all over the place for years, and thinking it would be funny if you could do something creative with the letters. Well, now I’ve found it: the formula TaBrNaCl is a fairly close phonetic approximation to the aforementioned word “tabernacle,” and it sounds pretty nasty (if you have a periodic table handy for reference so you know what the symbols mean). It would be a mixture of Tantalum, Bromine, and of course, Sodium and Chlorine. I’m not sure I even want to know what those chemicals would do when mixed together, and I’m certainly not curious enough to want to try it. I haven’t taken my chemistry class yet (yes, there’s only one listed as a requirement for my AS in CS); it looks like I’ll start that next spring, the semester before I graduate if all goes well. Whatever, I still don’t want to try mixing my own TaBrNaCl…

I know I’m not posting very often; that’s because of school. Sometime in early August I should be able to post a little more often, although I may not since I’ll be so worn out from my summer classes… oh well, maybe next year sometime?

But seriously, folks. I will try and get some details up about one of my less unspectacular high voltage projects soon. I’m also planning on ordering a decent power supply for my ignition coil driver, so maybe I can do some nice spark-filled posts on that before fall semester starts…