Alter egos

I was supposed to be doing actual work... instead I went into HN... so there I am after a while daydreaming (since I don't have anyone to talk my ideas with (I am talking about you gl)).
So the post that piqued my interest was the post about working from a cruise-ship http://tynan.com/cruisework .

Now. 

The idea of having some way to have all your life-logistics handled efficiently by the "system" so as you don't have to worry about them... is well discussed in prior chats.

The idea of internet isolation (in the form of actual wifi isolation) maybe useful interesting to some - but for me its not ideal... nodejs like programming is relying too much on continuously browsing working on top the work of others etc.

The idea of communication isolation is obvious. However getting on a cruise ship to achieve this seems a rather inefficient way to achieve this.

So here is an alternative way:

I always felt that it is worthwhile thing to maintain an alter ego. One or more identities that are completely disconnected from your normal identity - (pushing this to the limit is also providing you with means of defending enemy of state situations). What is though interesting is to think of one of these identity as your vacation identity. Imagine that you go to your email, skype etc and you change status signatures, vacation messages... that you are on vacation and that any emails/pings will not be responded to for a while.

And then , you close your chrome that is associated with your normal identity (if you are like me you have already a chrome profile for the "employer" with all the employer related logins , google apps etc and a different one for your personal gmail etc.. So what I am suggesting is that you have a third one. Your vacation self.

So you close the chrome profiles - and you don't open them for a weekend, or a week. You do the same with your skype, your phone etc. You open your vacation profile switch there all your devices and browsers etc. 

You are switching to a new connected self who has no ties with your normal self. Even your good friends don't know about it - you have probably diff followers contacts if at all .. .vacationing gypsies rarely have long term connections.. As soon as you brought all this up there is significant friction (given that your android chrome supports only one profile...) to go back to your normal self for quick peak. You can still do it ... but it inconvenient  (Note that your vacationing self ... has a diff google voice mail.. .and if you are like me your android nexus phone now gets associated with another phone number... )

So that is it. If you feel like going on a vacation, switch to your alter ego and your digital world around you changes. You are someone else, with diff playlists, diff Stack overflow profile, following different blogs and news... If you want the "watching through the glass" feeling of visiting another country - without really visiting it (thats my view of cruise ship tourism) ... hmmm thats a diff post... I need to be going.