Time Machine Hover Mode

Time Machine Hover Mode
Mainline 2016-221

Was down by Inkerman yesterday and stopped at the Walmart at Highway 416, and look what I found. Someone had put it on the rack backwards with the cardboard facing out, but it was right at the front so when I pulled it off to have a look I almost had a heart attack. (Pro tip: if you are hiding Hot Wheels on the rack, put them near the back of the peg, not right on the front.) I never expected to find one ever, and here it is right in front of me. Mattel also makes a "1885 Time Machine" with the ridiculous white-wall tires but that's a premium car and that series wouldn't last long if it showed up anywhere, so if I want one of those I'm probably eBaying big bucks. I'm currently on a open-everything kick but this is one I just might keep in its package along with the non-hover-mode version from 2011.

Breakfast Of Champions

Never let it be said that Disney passed on a merchandising dollar.

Ferrari FXX

Ferrari FXX
Mainline 2008-033

Just playing around with the macro mode in iOS Camera+. When I took a picture of this one last week, it visibly had a bunch of dust on it, so I've carefully brushed and air-blown the car so it looks all pretty. I have a bunch of FXXs, I think they look nicer than the Enzos that they are based on.

(Mattel part number #L9948 from the 2008 Mainline.)

Tough Neighbourhood

From Reddit, who almost certainly stole it from somewhere else.

LCD Fault

Office where I was on Friday had a phone with a cracked LCD panel. The liquid crystal flowing through the faults made an interesting pattern.

What Year Is It?

Walmart, Lincoln Fields. I found one 2005-era "Torpedo" car on the pegs. This was back when Mattel was fiddling around with weird non-standard things, like "Toon'd" and "Hard-Nozed" cars. None of those experiments particularly took, so if there was going to be a 2005 reject floating around it doesn't surprise me that it is one of these nasty things.

(No photo yesterday, sorry.)

Computer Archaeology

Fifteen years ago I left a job, and this was one of the computers I left behind - a Sun Ultra Enterprise 450. I still get periodic calls to go in and do some things for them. It always surprises me a bit when I find one of these 17+ year old computers still doing what I left them doing. Today the external A1000 array failed -- totally dead, no power lights on either power supply -- and the E450 wouldn't boot, so I got the call to go in and try to resurrect it. Fortunately the active use of the files on that array has already been moved elsewhere, so all I had to do was remove the array from the configuration and restart it. However I think we are pushing our luck somewhat so we are going to replace the active roles on this computer with something... newer? Maybe just "less old".