Backing up one Mac to multiple time capsule.

I'm using a Macbook Pro running OSX Lion. I use the Macbook to work from both home and office.
Because I live very far from office, I usually stay in the city with my gf which means I might not go home for 7-10 days at a time.
I do have a time capsule at home, everything works fine whenever I go there, backup is done seemlessly, catching up to whatever state the macbook is.
Because I can be without backing up for days and sometime weeks, I'm considering getting another Time Capsule that I would setup at work.
My question is:
Is it possible to backup a single Mac to multiple independant Time Capsule (or NAS ). My understanding is that Time Machine probably create indexes of what changed vs. what didn't ... so I am not convince it would correctly update two Time Capsule which might be at very different levels.
If not possible I guess I'll have to look into another parallel backup scheme like Acronis or else (didn't really look into that yet)

From Pondini's Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions 
Pull quote:
... But Time Machine can’t back up automatically to two different places;  you must tell it each time you want to switch, via Time Machine Preferences > Select Disk.  That’s easy to do, but since you can’t automate it, not very handy to do often.   It doesn’t get you a second app, either.
http://pondini.org/TM/27.html
Given that you would be switching from one to the other only infrequently, "select disk" might be the solution you need.

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