07/07/07

This is one of those days that happens once every century and with seven being such a special number, I just had to say something...

Is this good or bad? We've signed a striker...

Croatian international striker Eduardo Da Silva from Dinamo Zagreb.

Really cool: makes me wanna get a PS3

You can install Ubuntu on your PS3. [Via Lifehacker].

Too bad I have already decided to get an Xbox 360 (last paragraph).

Snatch Tevez: what are we waiting for?

He has said he is interested in coming here and he has turned down an offer from Inter.

S1m0ne

I just finished watching S1m0ne and it was really funny to me. The audacity of some of the things that were pulled off in this movie is scary. How Viktor Taransky was able to deceive the whole world scares me. Especially the stadium scene where he gave everyone the illusion that there was someone in the stadium singing when it was actually some computer software. I am really scared if it is possible to do something like this in the future. Only God knows if this isn't even being done now in a different form and we have all been dealt some lie that we have all eaten up.

Anyway, let me move from the somber, thought-provoking parts of the movie to the fun parts. The binary numbers seen in the name were cool. You know the 1 and 0 in the name that transformed it from "Simone" to "S1m0ne". One of the first things that made me watch the movie in the first place on TNT. I was curious. Who names a movie like that? And I saw that Al Pacino was in it. So I was hooked.

Another thing from the movie: I am scared of having an eye tumor so I am going to stay away from my computer for a while before I start work. Seriously. Read some of those books I have been meaning to read for a while.

Near the end, when he was trying to kill her character off a few intriguing things happened:

• He pulled a movie that was supposed to tank named "I am pig", people still hailed the movie.
• She went on national TV and virtually supported every vice that existed in the world, yet she was named Time's person of the year because she was a celebrity who spoke her mind.

Anyway, I am going to bed. What I just wrote here probably didn't tell you enough about the movie or make any sense. You can check it out on IMDB or Wikipedia. And you should watch it if it's showing on TV or you are looking to add to your Netflix or Blockbuster queue.

I see this and I am pissed

I know everyone is entitled to their opinions but when Vieira and Henry keep on talking about going-ons at Arsenal, I almost always get mad. You guys have left. Let the club be. We are trying to move on to life without you. Okay, I exaggerated there. I have never really gotten mad. Until now.

One of the main reasons Henry cited for leaving was that he wasn't sure Wenger was going to extend his (Wenger's) contract. He said he couldn't bare staying at Arsenal without Dein and Wenger especially considering his age, he will be 31 next year after Wenger's contract expires.

Now, he opens his mouth and says he hopes Wenger stays. Why? Why couldn't he put that hope and faith into the club and stayed and kept on fighting? No, he has to have everything rosy and run at the first sign of trouble. Now, he can sit from his comfy chair in Barcelona and start telling us he hopes Wenger stays. Are you kidding me? He says he and Wenger can talk about anything, even private stuff, yet, they can't convince each other to stay at the club?

I have nothing against Henry and he's still one of my favorite players but c'mon. You don't go around saying crap like he's saying. To cap everything off, he says when he said he'll be a gunner for life, he wasn't lying. See this:

'I said I was going to be a Gunner for life and I didn't lie because once you
are a Gunner you will always a Gunner. The club is in my heart and will remain
in my heart forever.

You must be kidding me. That's a monumental cop out. He could have come up with something way better than that. Really. Or he could have shut up and not said anything.

Anyway, I am off to bed. It's after 6AM and I haven't slept...

Arsenal without Henry

So it's official. Henry has left and the club has to move forward. I always believed he was going to leave when he said "Right now, I am an Arsenal player". That was the first time he didn't wholly commit his future to the club when speculation came that he was leaving the club. I have no problem with him going. He is a great player and has been great for the club but if he's not happy here, well, he should be allowed to leave. But I have a problem with the amount he left for.

£16 million pounds is way too small for Henry. I don't care if he wanted to go there and that was the only team he wanted to play for. They should have held out for more. And Henry himself should have made it his responsibility that we got what we deserved for him. That should have been his last act as Arsenal captain. In his letters in The Sun and Arsenal.com, he explained his reasons for leaving. Not about to go into them. If you haven't read them, go and read them.

One key thing that came out of this situation is that we really miss David Dein. We need to find a way to bring him back now that the Arsenal board seem to like Kroenke. Wenger seems hell bent on leaving now and might even have sold Henry to himself at Barcelona. We'll see about that in due time. So, we need to bring David Dein back and put him on the board with Stan Kroenke to move the club forward possibly even phasing out Hillwood, Fiszman and the rest of the Board. They have taken the club as far as they can and we need to move forward.

Moving on, we need to buy another striker who will obviously be compared to him. Wenger should continue in his tradition and give the #14 jersey to someone in a different position. Maybe a goalkeeper or something ridiculous. Anyway, Arsenal News Blog has a list of possible replacements. I like Anelka. He's familiar with the English game, will score goals and would suit the way we currently play. However, I think Wenger has an unwritten rule of not buying former players that we have sold. Let's just wait and see.

Good luck to Henry in Barrcelona. Here's to the future of Arsenal.

PS: How come we didn't get Eto'o in exchange for Henry? What happened to Eto'o plus £17 million for Henry?

Kobe needs a timeout

Decent read.

You have to read this

Funny article on Pacman Jones and his stripclub shooting incidents

Colts get their rings

Excellent.