{"id":1356,"date":"2010-01-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/driving-the-zamboni.html"},"modified":"2010-02-07T00:34:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:34:01","slug":"driving-zamboni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/driving-zamboni.html","title":{"rendered":"Driving the Zamboni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbantrendhk.com\/product_info.php?ProductId=30-461\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pcihk.com\/includes\/images\/products\/large\/30-461.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Admit it.  You&#8217;ve always fantasized about driving the Zamboni at the ice rink.  Sure, it&#8217;d be great to take a spin between periods at the Stanley Cup, but you&#8217;d settle for duty after open skate.  It just looks like fun.<\/p>\n<p>Well now you can have all that fun right at your desk.  That&#8217;s right.  Introducing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbantrendhk.com\/product_info.php?ProductId=30-461\">Desk Zamboni<\/a>.  A mini vacuum to clean up all the eraser dust and muffin crumbs that have accumulated over the course of the morning.  Don&#8217;t worry, the guy in the next cube will think it&#8217;s so cool he won&#8217;t even mind the high pitched whine of the tiny motor.  He&#8217;ll likely even pop over to tell you just how much he admires your new tool.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that there&#8217;s another market opportunity here though.  What if you made a <a href=\"http:\/\/irobotathome.com\/index.php\/really-works\/roomba\">Roomba<\/a> look like a Zamboni?  Maybe set it up so there&#8217;s a cat-sized seat on top.  Imagine watching Fluffy ride around doing the &#8220;housework.&#8221;  Not that any self-respecting cat would be caught dead looking useful.  But hey, it&#8217;s fun to let your mind wander now and again&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admit it. You&#8217;ve always fantasized about driving the Zamboni at the ice rink. Sure, it&#8217;d be great to take a<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/driving-zamboni.html\" title=\"Read Driving the Zamboni\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}