I pretend my username doesn't exist. I even have a userscript that changes it to something more tolerable:
Seems kind of stupid and vain.
Who's going to refer to you as L's & D's when your profile name is "the hacker"? Anytime someone speaks to you you're still going to see them address you as "the hacker", so it's not like you're even properly avoiding the name.
It'd just be easier to PM Badspot, or buy an alt.