In the relatively near future, I will be participating in more public activities (doing interviews, writing blog posts, etc.) in relation to developing games with Finn. But I don't want my public persona and private persona to be too closely tied to each other. For example, I don't want business contacts reaching me at my private email address; I'd rather they use my work address.
For this reason, I've decided to use Halley Orion as my "public" name, and I'll continue to use Halley Ross as my "private" name, just to make it a little easier to keep these spheres separate. I was intending to make myself a second Facebook profile strictly for business-related purposes, but it looks like that's not happening.
I'll play around with Ello at some point. I've been looking into Google+ as well, but I'm not too keen on the state of its privacy settings.
The last name of Orion is really cool. You may wish to totally drop the "Ross" as a legal name, even. I'm not tied to it myself, even though I kept it when I got married. I'm just used to it. It was my dad's name, and his dad's name, and so on.
Several of my sisters kept their names when they married, all except Julia and Rebecca. And Julia had a hyphenated name. And of course Jon's wife kept her name.
Isn't it funny that the most religious of us, Jennifer and Rebecca, dropped their names like hot potatoes when they married?
And as it turns out, genetically, your dad is probably not a Lyman.
It's too much trouble to change a last name. Plus, I do like the name "Ross". It has an interesting history in our family, and it has a good sound (single-syllable last names are the most versatile).
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I put my email in today and they were like "lol okay get in line."
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I'm joehumphrey over there :)
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For this reason, I've decided to use Halley Orion as my "public" name, and I'll continue to use Halley Ross as my "private" name, just to make it a little easier to keep these spheres separate. I was intending to make myself a second Facebook profile strictly for business-related purposes, but it looks like that's not happening.
I'll play around with Ello at some point. I've been looking into Google+ as well, but I'm not too keen on the state of its privacy settings.
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Several of my sisters kept their names when they married, all except Julia and Rebecca. And Julia had a hyphenated name. And of course Jon's wife kept her name.
Isn't it funny that the most religious of us, Jennifer and Rebecca, dropped their names like hot potatoes when they married?
And as it turns out, genetically, your dad is probably not a Lyman.
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