random acts of stupidity

but really ? something from a poem

SAID HANRAHAN

“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, In accents most forlorn, Outside the church, ere Mass began, One frosty Sunday morn. The congregation stood about, Coat-collars to the ears, And talked of stock, and crops, and drought, As it had done for years. “It’s lookin’ crook,” said Daniel Croke; “Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad, For never since the banks went broke Has seasons been so bad.” “It’s dry, all right,” said young O’Neil, With which astute remark He squatted down upon his heel And chewed a piece of bark. And so around the chorus ran “It’s keepin’ dry, no doubt.” “We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out. "The crops are done; ye’ll have your work To save one bag of grain; From here way out to Back-o’-Bourke They’re singin’ out for rain. “They’re singin’ out for rain,” he said, “And all the tanks are dry.” The congregation scratched its head, And gazed around the sky. “There won’t be grass, in any case, Enough to feed an ass; There’s not a blade on Casey’s place As I came down to Mass.” “If rain don’t come this month,” said Dan, And cleared his throat to speak– “We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “If rain don’t come this week.” A heavy silence seemed to steal On all at this remark; And each man squatted on his heel, And chewed a piece of bark. “We want a inch of rain, we do,” O’Neil observed at last; But Croke “maintained” we wanted two To put the danger past. “If we don’t get three inches, man, Or four to break this drought, We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “Before the year is out.” In God’s good time down came the rain; And all the afternoon On iron roof and window-pane It drummed a homely tune. And through the night it pattered still, And lightsome, gladsome elves On dripping spout and window-sill Kept talking to themselves. It pelted, pelted all day long, A-singing at its work, Till every heart took up the song Way out to Back-o’Bourke. And every creek a banker ran, And dams filled overtop; “We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “If this rain doesn’t stop.” And stop it did, in God’s good time;
And spring came in to fold
A mantle o’er the hills sublime.
Of green and pink and gold.
And days went by on dancing feet,
With harvest-hopes immense,
And laughing eyes beheld the wheat. Nid-nodding o’er the fence. And, oh, the smiles on every face, As happy lad and lass Through grass knee-deep on Casey’s place Went riding down to Mass. While round the church in clothes genteel Discoursed the men of mark, And each man squatted on his heel, And chewed his piece of bark. “There’ll be bush-fires for sure, me man, There will, without a doubt; We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, “Before the year is out.” John O’Brien

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hanrahan?wprov=sfla1

What ever I was watching at the time. I was watching a Pitch Meeting Marathon, and the name Midsized Sedan is still the craziest rapper name I’ve heard

Keepass password generator set to passphrase and dialed down to two words. Hit refresh a bunch of times and then remove the space from the 2 words that seem somewhat normal.

And now it looks like every other bot on the internet.

Sometimes I get freaky with it and use the password generator set to lowercase and maybe numbers and 8 characters.

Whatever I happen to have eaten most recently.

Social Media: DeathByBigSad
Banking: DeathByBigDebt
FPS Games: DeathByPewPew
Heathcare Related: DeathByClaimDenied

(Not actual usernames that I use, but it would be very thematic)

I either use my cats’ names, cities I’ve lived in, or literary/film/game characters I found interesting. on occasion, I have used a pun based on those criteria.

Slightly unrelated: I name all of my computers/servers as well as their hard drives and attached devices after Greek and Roman gods of major and minor Arcana.

Nice try!

For many years I used the same name. In spite of being short and pronounceable with no numbers it turned out to be quite unique. Even after all these years I can search that name and come up with some of my posts and comments. I stopped using it over ten years ago. As near as I can tell only one other person ever had it as a username.

Now I just pick something random when the question arises during registration. I only have three accounts so it’s not hard to remember. Passwords are handled by a password manager.

My current name is actually a different spelling of the first name I had on Lemmy. But, I made a dumb mistake and lost the password, so I made this account.

If it’s just a login that isn’t an identity I’ll ever have to see then I’ll usually just let my password manager generate something random. For something like Lemmy they’re whatever name comes to me at the moment. My current one here is a Simpsons reference that happened to be on my mind.

They need to be unrelated and have no order to get the benefit of being different, so Alice3 or “all start with the same letter” are out.

For accounts I care about: My usernames are pretty random, though that largely depends what’s allowed through the service. A lot of them are some version of my name because the site generates them (government stuff and whatever). Just whatever sounds good at the time is what I go with. Passwords are generated and stored by bitwarden, and I never really think about it.

For accounts I don’t care about, like shopping accounts I’ll use once, and never touch again after the 20 min use they got, they all get the same weak and pwned username and password combo so I can easily remember them. Don’t care if they get hacked. What are they gunna do with my shipping address? Send me stuff? Oh no.

Puns that make no sense for anybody but myself.

I use this as my username: https://www.behindthename.com/random/random.php?gender=both&number=2&sets=1&surname=&randomsurname=yes&all=yes

As for me, all my usernames are s(something). For the services that support it, the display name (or equivalent) is “sbird”, because birds are awesome!

Most of my social related accounts, think Piefed and other Fediverse stuff, XMPP, etc., is themed around the moons of the Solar System! My Piefed account is scallisto (after Callisto, the outermost Galilean moon), but my Vernissage (cool Pixelfed basically) one is seuropa (after Europa, an icy world with a subsurface ocean). For GOG, my username is sbetelgeuse, not named after a moon but an awesome giant star!

For a lot of my non-social accounts, I instead name them after various birds or adjacent things. For instance, my itch.io account is spenguin, my Lichess account is srook_asinthebird (a pun on the chess piece), and speckypeckpeck for Steam (because speck was already taken)

I also have a few oddballs like scloud for my Nextcloud instance, and as well as sgcbird for RetroAchievements (gc meaning GameCube! sgbbird, spsbird, sgbabird, ssnesbird, swiibird, etc. do not work nearly as well)

A few of my accounts are just “sbird”, mostly the general ones that are like my “core” services (email, Codeberg/Forgejo, Firefox Sync, and a few others)

I use a username generator, I generate random usernames until I find one that isn’t too bad. Then everything is recorded in my password manager. Today I am using Bitwarden (vaultwarden actually), it’s primarily a password manager and it has also a username generator

Sometimes I go with the dumbledoor method.