Jennifer Vogelsong: April 2007 Archives

As someone who grew up watching the play-by-play ice skating dramas of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, I couldn't help but enjoy the new film "Blades of Glory."

Will Ferrell and the guy from "Napoleon Dynamite" are rival male skaters who become a reluctant couple so they can compete in the pairs division. It's goofy. It's exaggerated. It's probably nowhere near the reality of professional ice skating (or is it?). Still, it's an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours on a weekend evening.

I wonder what local ice skaters think of the film? I know that professional skaters, like those who study ballet, are very serious about what they do. Do they also have a sense of humor?

Wednesday, I discovered Google.

Well, not really. I mean, I use it every day at work. But we had a presentation here in the office about RSS feeds and learned how you can get them on your Yahoo or Google home page or Web browser (and other ways that I now forget).

My Web broswer is too out-of-date for RSS, so I created a Google account.

And so the door opened into a wonderful world of organizational paradise at my fingertips...

One of the things I hate most in life is when products are sold encased in a specially molded sheath of plastic that is virtually indestructible and practically guaranteed to leave anyone who messes with it scratched, swearing, bleeding and frustrated beyond imagination.

This time, I lucked out. Only three of four. (Managed to avoid the bleeding part by using scissors and a pen)