No apologies necessary. That's still him. Open up the profile and a thirty second search of post history confirms it. He changes his alias around christmas time too. Does it every year.
It never seems to change the fact that he is a conspiracy addled nut job. He just changes his tin foil hat seasonally.
He's not hiding, as Newmedman wrote, he, like many members including myself sometime change for the holidays. The site isn't that much fun hardly any more and back a ways even some Admin had fun with it.