I told you I was bored
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A few months ago, in a column that ripped Mike Ciresi (sort of), I wrote:
I gave up any hope of being the guy who drives the Zamboni at the old Boston Garden quite awhile ago. But here at my place of employment, I'm constantly flailing away at suggesting new things, in the face of evidence sometimes that it's a wasted effort. But hasn't that been our national character: fighting lost causes?
So today, some of my colleagues in new media proved that dreams really can come true with this puppy:
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Not just a Zamboni, but a custom-made Polinaut Zamboni. Radio controlled (only because they haven't made a Web-controlled version of it yet).
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It'll be awhile before I'm good enough to take it to the ice. But this was quite a surprise. I was planning on the next installment in the Polinaut plan to take over the universe being action figures.
This is how Keillor started, you know. A stupid poster about biscuits.
