The Water Cooler

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/01/exclusive...m-ian-cummings/ Straight from the Lead Producer of Madden 2010. Great to hear stuff will being told to the community more often. Any Madden news before the release is awesome.

This is huge. To have a GOP paper like the Chicago Tribune endorse a Democrat for the first time in history this week was big. But I think many could discount it because he's the home town guy. To have a Texas newspaper and Colin Powell, probably the most respected voice in the Republican Party, endorse Obama is incredible. Here is a link to the Houston Chronicle endorsement. Colin Powell will be on Meet the Press later today. The show is already taped and you can view the details, including video of his endorsement here.

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/02/new-madde...ing-philosophy/ Definitely something to impact the way that almost every single one of us plays the game of Madden. I know this will change how many league, tournament, online players play.

So what is everyone's Xbox Live Gamertag? Got my wireless connection set up today (no more dragging my modem back and forth) and thought it might be fun to play some people from this board. my gamertag is "BF2K"

Who are you pulling for? I am a Duke fan, so I am going to give you all my biased pick and say Duke wins it all! I bet UNC doesn't even make it past Tennessee.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3226203

Has anyone ever heard of playing every team, every week?? A friend of a friend told me about it. He asked how I did this year and I told him I had a great year, but ended up in 7th place. He said his site offers an option called like power schedule or something and he is thinking of going to it next year. I never caught what site he used and I've been searching and can't find anything on it. Anyway, I worked the numbers with the resutls from my own league and it does see to be a pretty fair way to do things. It rewards the best overall teams on the year, instead of some teams that just caught some lucky breaks. This is different from doing just a point ba…

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/01/madden-co...dence-or-curse/ Do you believe in the Madden Curse? There is decent supporting evidence from each version. Favre & the Jets choke to miss out on the playoffs, Mangini gets fired, he leads the league in interceptions. Does it exist? If your favorite team's star player was going to be on the cover, would you care about it at all? Or is it just a silly notion.

Elections have consequences. Thank GOD! Link Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions Stem Cell, Climate Rules Among Targets of President-Elect's Team Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team. A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes O…

Started scanning all my Bears cards into a new photobucket, please check it out http://s434.photobucket.com/albums/qq66/fleasbears/

This guys stuff is brilliant worth a visit to his site

Since there are people who read this, after the customer service I've received over the past month, for God's sake, don't use AT&T for your home phone service or internet. My God, this is awful. This is the 3rd time in the past month and the 2nd time this week my service has gone out for no reason, and now it won't be back on until next Tuesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8230678.stm Poland has been holding a day of commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Leaders from 20 countries laid candles during a ceremony near Gdansk. Earlier, Polish President Lech Kaczynski criticised the former Soviet Union over responsibility for the war. His words added to an ongoing row with Moscow, although Russian PM Vladimir Putin said he hoped the two countries could settle their differences. Mr Kaczynski said Poland had received a "stab in the back" from the former Soviet Union when it invaded and occupied the east of the country as the German army was advanci…

http://www.vsngaming.com/2008/12/simulatin...bcs-bowl-games/ Pretty cool, I wonder if this is going to spot on. I think all of them are pretty much right except the Virginia Tech one. I think that they are going to win convincingly. Thoughts?

Had the RROD and did the X-Clamp repair. It lives again!!! It took less than an hour to do the repair. Now I have two working Xbox 360s. Kinda fun to do too. I may buy some dead ones on ebay and fix them and resell as X-Clamp repaired.

Did anyone catch the episode the other night? I finally watched it off my TiVo... It had me cracking up when they related cheating with the Patriots and Bilicheck! Like it or not, Pats fans will have this legacy do deal with for a long long time...

A libertarian is a conservative who's been busted. A libertarian is a liberal who learned economics. What is the derivation of the word Politics? It comes from Poly, meaning many, and Ticks, a blood sucking insect

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8188778.stm Loved hie earlier films, Breakfast Club is a fave