Why the name TurtleFox?

And to add to this, i'd like to paint the picture of how difficult it is to name an online company these days.  My guess as to how many hours were spent, over the 2-3 years of concept development, is probably close to 100 hours.  The night before we settled on TurtleFox, Jay and I were up extremely late, brainstorming the weirdest names imaginable, only to find the domain name wasnt available.  It was so irritating, I developed a major headache, out of sheer frustration.  The intensity of the search became dangerously critical, when I sprung a leak and started bleeding from my nose.  At that point, I said forget this crap, and went to bed.

That was only the 2nd nosebleed I have ever had in my life, that I can recall.  The first one was when i was about 13 years old, playing shortstop on a horrible field, and my dad hit a screaming ground ball to me in practice.  The ball popped up at the last second, and nailed me in the face.  The only thing I caught was the blood in my glove.

Contrary to the norm, I have actually derived a meaning for the web site name, TurtleFox.  Typically a business will derive a company name from a meaning, or service they provide.  We went the other way... finding a name, and then forcing a meaning out of it.  So here is what I am telling you it means.

Many of our families have members that are vastly different in their online abilities.  Some of them are "turtles", in that they are slow to know.  They have a hard time posting photos, or even logging in for that matter.  But are still very interested in keeping in touch.  Many families also contain "foxes", or people that take technology and run with it.  People like this, example my younger sister, can overheat a keyboard and wear out a good set of speakers with all the message "dinging", when chatting back and forth.

This site allows for families and friends, regardless of your technological know-how, to KEEP IN TOUCH.  Everyone can KEEP IN TOUCH at their OWN PACE.  Turtles and Foxes.

So why did you name it turtlefox?

SO I COULD PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU.

I was lobbying for www.FoxyTurtlesInLingerie.com but was unsuccessful.

how about www.FoxySeversonsThatLikeTurtles?.com

Lots of laughter..ha ha ha.

Bunch of morons

Moron is in the eye of the beholdeR? 80)

I like the name, and thanks for explaning where it came from - I was wondering. And yes, it is easy to remember.

so stupid question...but did you guys like make this website or is it a wellknown facebook type blog site?

We pretty much built this site from scratch, 3 people combined. In terms of features, it is similar to Facebook in many ways, but the idea was to take more of a family-angle, and try and make the site as simple and easy to use, focus much more keeping in touch as the theme, and much less on social networking and meeting new people like facebook and other sites.

So can I point out that the phrase above should read "You can't mispell it, and if you do, *your* IQ isn't high enough to use the site."?  Just thought it was funny in the context of the sentence. ;-)

hahaha, doh! nice find..I do that a lot. I'll fix it now before anyone else finds out my English is bad.

Jay, I would have given you www.fatrunner.com.  That's pretty hard to forget too.

Jay, your English may be bad, but how many other guys with your complexion speak Vietnamese?  (And BTW, is there a spell-check function in this application?)

yeah, there is a spell checker, but it's a bit of a pain to install. If you click the little "down arrow" above the input box where you type your comment, you'll see a bunch of options to bold, italics, format your text, etc, and one of those options is a little spell check button. When you click it, you'll get a popup saying you need to download and install something. If you can manage to figure out how to download and install that application, then the speller checker will work (and its actually pretty nice).  GOOD LUCK!

Oh, when I took vietnamese at BYU, it was amazing to see 20 totally pale white guys speaking totally fluent vietnamese. All ex-missionaries of course.

I've never been able to get the spell check to work on my PC.  But then again not much on TF works on my PC.  That's why I am the #1 beta tester.

Why did you name it Turtlefox again?

Thanks Aimee. Found the blog.  As I've been reading blogs from you all...I find myself laughing. You Severson's are too funny.

I have read how the blog name was started - over two years ago.  I am so far behind no one will ever read this.  That's good - don't want to hear of any more nose bleeds!

I read it Floyd.