{"id":930,"date":"2009-04-30T10:37:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2009-04-30T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T15:49:53","slug":"nerdy-and-anti-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/nerdy-and-anti-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerdy AND Anti-Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Sarah Palin&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AKGovSarahPalin\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter account<\/a> (any wagers on whether Sarah knows how to post to Twitter?):<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"border:1px solid #dedede; display:block;\" href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/palin-twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-931\" title=\"palin-twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/palin-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"palin-twitter\" width=\"458\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/palin-twitter.jpg 742w, http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/palin-twitter-300x63.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bio: <\/strong>Creating New Energy for Alaskans as governor of the 49th state!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As pointed out by <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5234162\/sarah-palin-recklessly-breaks-the-most-important-law-of-the-universe\" target=\"_blank\">Gawker<\/a>, <strong>this blatantly violates the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_law_of_thermodynamics\" target=\"_blank\">1st Law of Thermodynamics<\/a><\/strong>, a big no-no as far as reality and existence in this dimension goes.\u00a0 Physicists and chemists everywhere should write Palin to inform her that she is toying with forces she couldn&#8217;t possibly understand.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for this, <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5234162\/sarah-palin-recklessly-breaks-the-most-important-law-of-the-universe\" target=\"_blank\">Gawker<\/a>.\u00a0 You&#8217;re always so trashy, but sometimes your trash smells oh so sweet.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, while I was poking around on Twitter, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/schwarzenegger\" target=\"_blank\">California Gov. Schwarzenegger&#8217;s Twitter page<\/a> (he&#8217;s one of the 7 people that Sarah Palin follows, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlRove\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Rove<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newtgingrich\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gengrich<\/a>.\u00a0 What a classy great group of people.), and noticed that he&#8217;s following almost as many people as follow him (<span class=\"link-following_page\"><span id=\"following_count\" class=\"stats_count numeric\"> <\/span><\/span><span class=\"link-following_page\"> <span class=\"label\">Following<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"link-following_page\"><span id=\"following_count\" class=\"stats_count numeric\">43,369, Followers: <\/span><\/span><span class=\"link-followers_page\"><span id=\"follower_count\" class=\"stats_count numeric\">55,117<\/span><\/span>).\u00a0 That seems a little out of character for a public figure (Newt, for example, follows 92 people, while 214,506 lost souls follow him), but maybe that&#8217;s how Arnold keeps up with all of his many, many, many friends?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Sarah Palin&#8217;s new Twitter account (any wagers on whether Sarah knows how to post to Twitter?): Note the text: Bio: Creating New Energy for Alaskans as governor of the 49th state! As pointed out by Gawker, this blatantly violates the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, a big no-no as far as reality and existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[155,388,389,387],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nerdiness","category-rants-and-raves","tag-sarah-palin","tag-schwarzenegger","tag-thermodynamics","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}