Actually, it's Eric Adler, but I couldn't resist borrowing that line from Gene Wilder.

Finally, after all these years ... decades (man, I feel old) I can finally ditch the "hacker name" from the 80's.

For those of you too young to understand, back in the 80's, when BBS systems were the big social sites, and "getting Online" required a modem and using the family's telephone land line, user names were 'evocative,' 'cool,' elite.' (This was before 1337 became a thing.) Nobody used their real names online, everyone used 'handles,' they weren't even called 'hacker names' back then because A: hackers were still just the people building their own computers, and B: people were more familiar with the concept of "CB Handles," the 'user names' that truckers had when conversing over the airwaves. If you need help understanding CB handles, go google 'CB radio' on your own, you young whippersnapper, and get off my lawn!

Back in the 80's my full handle was "Eric Adler, the Bavarian Eagle." An American Bald Eagle of Bavarian (German) heritage. The Mad Science thing jelled later, and what most Americans think is 'German' culture is actually just from Bavaria*, so there was little point in pushing the "Bavarian" part that hard, "German" gave enough information for the masses.

*Storybook-style houses, leiderhosen, the origin of Oktoberfest (It is a celebration of the anniversary of the marriage of King Ludvig I of Bavaria, not to be confused with King Ludvig II of Bavaria, known to outsiders as "Mad King Ludwig" and to his people as Unser Kini ("Our Darling King") When Ludvig II was king, you make a point to give every beggar you passed a coin, one of them could be King Ludvig in disguise, but I'm digressing WAY off topic.