By the way, I came up with a dumb (and thus perfect) acronym for either the FTL drive in my homebrewed starjammer, or it's answer to the ion impulse engine.
Portable Oscillating Reticular Triangulator et Alio Loco, or PORTAL.
It doesn't work quiiiite as well as Ballistic Laser Accelerated Semi-Tessellating Energy Relay, or BLASTER, but I like it. Sounds like the sorts of things gnomes would name their space tech.
I wonder if I can figure out an acronym for auto-gnomes that spells GNOME...with no A for automated, S for synthetic, R for robotic, C for clockwork....it's gonna be a challenge.