Monday, November 13, 2006

New-fangled technology

I swear, it is so easy to take modern technology for granted. This weekend, while coordinating getting Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas tickets with some friends, at one point I was chatting with one person, while in a video conference with another, who was also on his cell phone with the fourth person, so he put her on speakerphone so she could be part of the video chat! All this coordinated between Utah and Oregon! And yet it still takes Amtrak 36 hours to get people from Portland to Salt Lake! What's up with that?

I'm pretty excited about the Christmas concert because the featured performer is Sissel Kyrkjebø, a Norwegian singer who is amazing. She did the vocals for Titanic and sang the Norwegian songs for the Norwegian language dub of Disney's The Little Mermaid. I'm sure MoTab (as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is called by the urban hipsters on the streets of Salt Lake) will be good, but a free Sissel concert?!? THAT'S worth flying in from Oregon a week early for.

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