Here goes nothing, maybe It's a trap!

Okay, to start off I'll explain the name of my blog. I've had this internet nickname for a long time.

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It's 1998 and xmas-eve, that magical time of year here in finland, snow is falling from the sky, the streets are devoid of life and everyone is in their warm houses eating christmas food and having a good ol' time. Maybe you'll even go sledding down the nearby hill and try avoid hitting trees. Well maybe it's like that in the rest of finland, but xmas weather in helsinki is slush sleet and shit. So being outside is the last thing on your mind.

Aaaaaaaaanyway. I was all of 13 years of age, and had just unwrapped a great xmas present. Now I must remind you i'm quite the nerd. So what do I find under the wrapping? Ultima Online! A computer game. And not just any computer game, its a MMORPG, the first one ever. (if you've heard of world of warcraft, yeah, turns out wow isnt such a new idea after all, mmkay?).

Happily i forget all other family functions, and zip at close-to-lightspeed to my room. Shut the door and start installing. After what seemed like forever (patching a mmorpg game with ISDN wasnt a joy to behold), I got to create my very own little character. I just have to name this little character and i'll be on my way to slay some chickens and so on.

By the way, go to http://www.imanewbie.com/ for excellent UO comics.

Now I did get another intresting christmas present that day, a book. This book started another hobby of mine that continues to this day, but that'll be a story for another day. It was a star wars book that takes place 7 years after the battle of endor.

Battle of what now? Yeah if you've seen the Return of the Jedi it's that big cool space battle you always loved, and had those annoying little furballs called ewoks in it too.

So it takes place after the movies. Luke is a jedi master and has these jedi students. One of them is called streen.

BINGO BANGO!

Well, i didnt actually read the book the same day and find that character in it, i just flipped through it and noticed someone called Streen, and picked the name from there.

*Image fades and bubbles again, this time to the YEAAAAAR TWWWWOOOOTHOUSAAAAAAAAND*

So i've played UO for over a year now, and I've played with the my character Streen. Well now it was time to try a First Person shooter game, called Delta Force 2!! Now this game was awesome, huge landscapes and firing at other people in multiplayer action via the internet was a new experience for me. But hey, i needed a nickname for myself. And being lazy as i am, i picked Streen again.

Now approx. two weeks after that I realized that i wasnt leet enough. (Leet = Elite, also written l33t, 1337). I had noticed that alot of people substituted their normally written nicknames with numbers and other funny signs, so I changed the way my nick was spelled to $tr33n. Now don't you think that's just über cool?

*Image bubbles and fades again. This time to the present day*

The dollar sign was a bit too much however, and over the years the nick has evolved into its current configuration. I took the $-sign off and just substituted it with a regular s. Oh, it's also a LOWER-CASE "S", so dont screw it up. I kept the 33 in the middle instead of having E's there tho.

And so I am now called "three three" by my finnish-speaking fans in the Call of Duty - scene. CoD is a computer game btw, if you havent guessed, and the reason I have fans is because I am a commentator for a finnish tv-program that broadcasts computer game matches played between even bigger nerds than me.