Aaron is selling cool bumper stickers. Go check him out, buy his stuff, far better than buying Martha’s stuff.

Speaking of iPods and stuff, Apple has good news thanks to Binary Bonsai noticing.

Apple shipped 876 thousand Macintosh® units and 860 thousand iPods during the quarter, representing a 14 percent increase in CPU units and a 183 percent increase in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

“It was an outstanding quarter - our highest third quarter revenue in eight years,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Our Mac-based revenue grew a healthy 19 percent, and our music-based revenue grew an incredible 162 percent. We’ve got a strong product portfolio, with some amazing new additions coming later this year.”

Better be a G5 iMac. Maybe a video iPod, hope hope hope.

Could do something useful but rather do something silly. Got this from Hunny Hive, thanks.

FIRSTS

First job: Drafting for a place that did research using dogs, bothered me terribly I might add. That’s when I realized I didn’t hate dogs although that isn’t something I’d brag about - not hating dogs I mean.
First screen name: ssren
First self-purchased CD: Don’t remember.
First piercing/tattoo: Ears pierced
First true love: One thing about getting old or is it the MS, I don’t remember.
First enemy: Kid that lived behind me growing up.

LASTS

Last big car ride: You mean long, to San Francisco last year, probably will stay my last too.
Last kiss: Kiss… guy… so long ago, somewhere around 19 years ago
Last hot kiss? Before the divorce, yeah that long. Guys I dated after were duds.
Last library book checked out: Geesh, can’t remember.
Last movie seen: The Passion of Christ
Last beverage drank: Glass of water
Last food consumed: Fruit Harvest Banana Berry cereal
Last phone call: Not at work kid to ask me to put her laundry in the dryer
Last CD played: CD? iPod iPod iPod
Last annoyance: This damn neuralgia
Last pop drank: Mountain Dew
Last ice cream eaten: Breyers strawberry
Last time scolded: Last week
Last shirt worn: Was it my “Nuke the moon” shirt, may have been, oh just go visit Frank’s site.

I…

I am: still tired.
I want: to be able to pee… easily.
I have: a lot of ways to pick on Microsoft with a similarly initialed disease - MS.
I wish: I would either win the Powerball of find a cute guy for me not my kid, she’s got plenty.
I hate: MS of course, either one.
I fear: mad mullahs in Iran
I hear: iPod iPod iPod
I search: Google, ok so couldn’t resist.
I regret: not going to get into that, too many, career for instance.
I love: my iPod, my kid and my/her kitties.
I always: beat myself up over little things… repeatedly.
I am not: healthy - IMHO.
I dance: when listening to my iPod.
I sing: when listening to my iPod.
I cry: when given devastating news.

YES or NO:

You keep a diary: Yes, online and offline.
You like to cook: Yes, but usually too tired or too working.
You have a secret you have not shared with anyone: Yes.

DO YOU…?

Have a crush: Yes, Sephiroth for one.
Want to get married: Yes.
Get motion sickness: Yes.
You’re a health freak: Not really
Current hair color: Red
Eye color: Blue
Birthplace: Boston, MA

FAVORITES

Number: 3
Color: White like my iBook and iPod.
Day: Payday, really.
Month: May
Songs: Too numerous to count, what’s on the iPod, how’s that.
Season: Used to be summer before the heat got to me, would still be summer if I lived elsewhere. Hmmmm, ah Hawaii, that’s my favorite season..
Drink: Milk and it’s white too
Alcohol: Rubbing, and no I don’t drink it.

PREFERENCES

Cuddle or make out: What’s that? It’s been so long. Guessing I’ll stick to dreaming about Sephiroth.
Chocolate milk or hot chocolate: Hot chocolate.
Milk, dark, or white chocolate: Milk Chocolate but white is close.
Vanilla or chocolate: Chocolate vanilla chocolate vanilla… both

IN THE LAST 24 HRS, HAVE YOU…

Cried? No.
Helped someone? Yes.
Bought something? Yes, pizza pizzzzzzzza.
Gotten sick? No, that’s an ongoing proposition with the heat.
Gone to the movies? No.
Said “I love you”?: No.
Written a real letter: No.
Talked to an ex?: No, rarely talk to hiim or his family.
Missed an ex?: No, absolutely positively not.
Written in a journal?: Yes, if blogging counts, may or may not have cross posted to my Live Journal.
Had a serious talk?: Yes. He knows what he has to do… divorce the bitch.
Missed someone? No.
Hugged someone? No, think they should have asked if I pet someone. That I did.

Your turn…

If anyone doesn’t know what LoJack is, a refresher from their site

The patented LoJack System includes a small radio frequency transceiver hidden in up to 20 places in a your vehicle. Each LoJack System has a unique code that is tied into the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). When a theft is reported to the police, a routine entry into the state police crime computer results in a match of the LoJack System’s unique code against the state VIN database. This automatically activates the LoJack System in your car, which emits an inaudible signal. Law enforcement authorities who are equipped with LoJack vehicle tracking units - in their police cruisers and aviation units - are always listening for a LoJack signal. Police use the LoJack vehicle tracking units to track and recover your LoJack equipped vehicle.

The government has the ability to track your car and apprehend it with your help, you do have to buy the thing. I can imagine it being used for other more nefarious uses. Suffice it to say it is, for now, voluntary.

Not so at work, employees in one of the departments have been LoJacked. That way they can track employees whereabouts. I can see it being used, not just for the convenience of finding employees but by following their every movement, tracking where they had been and tying it in to payroll. It has the potential to do away with timeclocks where one has to clock in and out. And if one were docked for leaving their area, taking too many bathroom breaks for instance, it would have a big effect on productivy. I was informed the tracking device doesn’t work when one goes to the bathroom so, get the runs and get the boot.

Of course, since the tracking device is worn, must be worn above the waist, creative types have found ways to circumvent it by shelving it, literally, while they leave their work area that way avoiding detection. Once these devices are installed throughout the organization, does require some hardware here, they will most likely tackle misuse of said tracking device.

Which most probably is a RFID chip. It would work for people too. Think it can’t be done? Think again. It’s being used in people now. Witness this CNet report. Quoting:

Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.

The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids’ movements.

Imagine they will find tags on backpacks can get lost so they will insert them, Verichip them. They will do this at work too. I will pass, aside from the obvious since I am suffering from neuralgia, the thought of anything inserted might aggravate it and be painful, I suffer from a desire for freedom from being constantly monitored for the rest of my existance….666 Not for me, thanks.

Martha’s statement after her sentencing translated for your enjoyment.

This is a shameful day. It’s shameful for me and for my family, and for my beloved company, and for all of its employees and partners. [Yeah, a shame she got caugh and even punished - how dare they!]

What was a small personal matter became over the last 2 years an almost fatal circus event of unprecedented proportions. [Small? Personal? Wasn't there insider trading involved? Lying perhaps? Ask Bill Clinton what that gets you.]

I have been choked and almost suffocated to death during that time, all the while more concerned about the well being of others than for myself. More hurt for them and for their losses than for my own. More worried for their futures than for the future of Martha Stewart the person. [So worried she's been hitting the party circuit, movie premieres - Farenheit 9/11 - she sure knows how to pick them.]

More than 200 people have lost their jobs at my company, as a result of this situation. I want them to know how very very sorry I am, for them and their families. [Yeah like anyone's going to believe that, now if she sobbed about how sorry she is her stock tanked, might be believable.]

I would like to thank everybody who stood by me, who wished me well, waved to me on the street like these lovely people over here, smiled at me, called me, wrote to me. We received thousands of support letters and more than 170,000 e-mails to marthatalks.com. And I appreciate each and every one of those pieces of correspondence. I really feel good about it. [So good she will not change from her usual rich bitchy stuff.]

Perhaps all of you out there can continue to show your support by subscribing to our magazine, by buying our products, by encouraging our advertisers to come back in full force to our magazine. [Buy my stuff.]

Our magazines are great. They deserve your support. And whatever happened to me personally shouldn’t have any effect whatsoever on the great company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. [They are ad filled fluff, hard to find any content among the ads and buy one, you've seen them all, no variety -more buy my stuff crap.]

And I don’t want to use this as a sales pitch for my company, but we love that company, we worked so hard on that company. And we really think it merits great attention from the American public. [I love the money I make, I love having my picture plastered on the cover and in every shot in every article, and on TV and most of all I love seeing my stock rise - buy my stuff.]

And I’ll be back. I will be back. [In court fighting the conviction and on the party and movie premiere circuit - meanwhile buy my stuff.]

Whatever I have to do in the next few months, I hope the months go by quickly. [Party party party - buy my stuff.]

I’m used to all kinds of hard work, as you know, and I’m not afraid. I’m not afraid whatsoever. I’m just very very sorry that it’s come to this, that a small personal matter has been able to be blown out of all proportion, and with such venom and such gore. I mean it’s just terrible. [Venom? Gore? What a Democratic fundraiser? No, taking her to court - daring to challenge her, the utter gall of them.]

End translation and in case you miss it, her message is, “Buy my stuff.”

I don’t think so.