Back then, way back in 2-ought-oh-six … before a movie about CARS that would change the lives of millions – the average Joe only had CARS without eyes to collect … (you can right click to view this photo at full size). Poor fella. I too had only Johnny Lightning’s and some Hot Wheels but […]

Shoppers in China will probably be confused when everything costs 3 times as much as the US … Maybe the factory backdoor sellers can cut out that annoying middleman Mattel. 🙄 Via the WSJ: Toys “R” Us Inc. plans an online and bricks-and-mortar push in China, its top executive said, in a bet that a […]

Congrats to the following two TakeFive winners in the Bellywasher juice contest: John in Mo Unixed You can read the original post here. Just drop your mailing address to Tizmanian (tizmanian(at)yahoo(dot)com) and I will get the goodies out to you! Thank you for reading and participating here on Take5!

Very nice – Quicktime VR panorama of Mars that you can toggle around … No, you cannot actual control the rover. 🙂 Or if you’re a wisenheimer, southern Utah … 🙂 Equ-distance to Starbucks.    

Our local Kmart is finally closing … while this may not have been the actual photo of the front of my store, it did pretty much look exactly like this … I’m actually surprised it hung on for this long … I took this photo of a typical shopping day at KMart (when it’s not […]

“Hostile Takeover Banker”has a fun story to tell us … I went into a local Kmart over here the other day and was blown away by what I saw. This store was full of Finns and McQueens the other day and now ALL the Finns are gone, including all the oversized ones! I was thinking I […]

The main difference with Walmart is that WM will accept your word at the register. Does Target do that? TRU will require you bring in the ad. They also follow Target & WM lead that BOGO or % off deals are not price matched. And “limited quantity” items are NOT priced match – which could […]

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NASA has posted a fun trove of archival images … Two places – the easy to navigate FLIKR page … Or the original GRIN (GReat Images in NASA) database HERE.

Well, we think the squirrels have finally stopped gnawing on the cables and have returned our website back to normal. If you were some of the readers and visitors seeing 500 internal server errors, the short answer is the migration our host completed for us was borked.  It took some time to figure out just […]