I also had been reading his name as Leo Stales all this time. I know someone with the surname Stales, as well as plenty of people named Leo. Little did I know.
My name just came from my first license plate (in high school at the time, everyone in my circle did custom plates and had fun with them). I asked a good friend of mine what I should do, and she said N8THGR8. My first email from years before this conversation had natethegreat in the address, and I grew up reading the Nate the Great book series. So I said, “Sure, perfect.” So I now used N8THGR8 for most of my non-professional online usernames. I slapped 52 on the end because I was making the account for the DC wiki, and 52 was “DC’s number.”