I’m getting bored with my current username, which is in use on a number of sites. Thing is, I came up with it pretty randomly. Needing a username to register for something a few years ago, I grabbed a character from a favorite TV show, slapped on a meaningful number (it’s usually 42 in fact), and stuck with it out of convenience. Now I want something that’s more… “me”, more evocative of my own character, yet unlikely to be taken on other websites. (As a white, American male, drawing on the Japanese pop culture I enjoy at times has an ‘animu ^_^’ connotation best avoided as I grow older).
My four word profile on one site reads ‘Bon vivant; dilettante extraordinaire,’ reflecting the sort of idea I’d like to express, but implying some pretty unwieldy usernames.
How did you generate your username? Inspiration; perspiration; or apathetic, arbitrary choice?