01-09-2026, 11:27 PM
Good morning servants of the pen!!
Had another odd dream last night. I got a new job but I wasn't sure about it so, of course I didn't quit my old job yet. I realized while driving to the new job this would be problematic as there would be no way to work both due to the hours. In addition, I don't currently have the type of job where you just abandon it to the abyss, but whatever, I decided to show up for my first day anyway to see what it was about. Well, it was rather odd, there was a collection of us and in the beginning we were all just sort of chatting and there were snacks provided which neither of these is that odd but - it carried on longer than I would have thought. We proceeded to do event after event of non work type activities. (We watched a show, had some lunch, some other stuff I can't quite remember) It began to dawn on me that this wasn't an actual job at all but a front for some type of government program.
Very strange
You know, many years ago, I developed a bot name generating algorithm that was quite popular and it worked like this:
It had a dictionary of common 1 syllable words
It selected 2 to make a compound word
it checked that word against a dictionary to be sure it didn't exist
it added a 2 digit number at the end
so like BarnFox22
CampGlove51
etc.
Now when I see these user accounts, it looks like they are using a common name and then a one syllable word like
Robertpees
JamesPen
whatever, it makes them very easy to spot sadly
Had another odd dream last night. I got a new job but I wasn't sure about it so, of course I didn't quit my old job yet. I realized while driving to the new job this would be problematic as there would be no way to work both due to the hours. In addition, I don't currently have the type of job where you just abandon it to the abyss, but whatever, I decided to show up for my first day anyway to see what it was about. Well, it was rather odd, there was a collection of us and in the beginning we were all just sort of chatting and there were snacks provided which neither of these is that odd but - it carried on longer than I would have thought. We proceeded to do event after event of non work type activities. (We watched a show, had some lunch, some other stuff I can't quite remember) It began to dawn on me that this wasn't an actual job at all but a front for some type of government program.
Very strange
You know, many years ago, I developed a bot name generating algorithm that was quite popular and it worked like this:
It had a dictionary of common 1 syllable words
It selected 2 to make a compound word
it checked that word against a dictionary to be sure it didn't exist
it added a 2 digit number at the end
so like BarnFox22
CampGlove51
etc.
Now when I see these user accounts, it looks like they are using a common name and then a one syllable word like
Robertpees
JamesPen
whatever, it makes them very easy to spot sadly