This is a video collage of Fat Phat Penguins driving to and from work and stuff.

October and November this year are going to be expensive, expensive, expensive. :)

Wiiiiii. :)

Luckily I was able to take care of both my Wii and PS3 pre-order this week. Now I will be able to avoid the insane PS3 shortages at launch, and more importantly, I will not loose an arm to the angry soccer mothers looking to get “The new Nintendo, console thingie” for their little Billies and Stephanies.

The months of September to November have been and will continue to be amazing for console gaming. Final Fantasy 12, Okami, Persona 3 (Devil Summoner), Zelda Twilight Princess, Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi 2, as well as two new console launches.

Today I watched my femur disconnect from my tibia! Not a fun experience and it caused me to fall to the ground with a bad knee pain. I don’t know if disconnect is the right word, but the bones popped out of place and then when I was falling everything popped back into place. I am feeling pretty lucky that none of the ligaments tore, the pain is mild, and my walk is only a little gimpy, but I need to see another doctor to make sure its okay. This puts a cramp into this getting back into shape thing I’ve been working on, but hopefully not a cramp into the hike to Half Dome that I have planned in a couple of weeks.

I think because of how my knee was twisted the bone was able to slide by the MCL or something.

Last week I went to SF with some friends and saw my friend Ryan come to the end of his half marathon run. Good times! Here’s some pics:

Linda and Anny when we are waiting to eat Dim Sum

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I guess I could blame myself for this, for trusting that Microsoft would actually release a reliable piece of hardware. During the first three months of the Xbox 360 release, when all the problems were cropping up and people were getting their replacement units quickly from Microsoft, I guess I felt kinda lucky that I did not have any issues, and that I had a unit which was running flawlessly. But today I learnt that I would have been better off having a problem then. Then I would have actually got my issue taken care of in a reasonable manner and mabey got a unit that was not from the first batch of trash.

While a friend was over last night I decided to toss in Fight Night Round 3 and start up a game, but as soon as the game loaded my sound system started screaming and the video went out of synch then locked up. About 4 seconds later the screen went black and I got three lovely red LED’s on the front of my Xbox 360.

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Dang, I’m not even close to those averages and I have two degrees! Must read, you tech heads!

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I think I found the truck to match the Phat Penguin image. And here it is…

Penguin truck?

According to Jung Typology and Myers Briggs Type Indicator tests, I have a INTJ and ISTP personality, respectively. Please take the Jung Typology test, MMDI, and report your findings.

When pertaining various personality types in a software team, it is very important that members do no clash. This article, “Get to know people,” explains it well.

Lets take a lesson from a co-worker to learn how to better eat our fruit loops:

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I finally set up my own host name through BlueHost yesterday so I could experiment with different things before I try to implement anything here. Check out the first thing I implemented last night. Set up my own Image/message board. It is based on the anonymous model, with no registration required. Was a pain to get it to look how I wanted to, but I got all the framework done and my basic layout complete. :) Just click the image to check it out, and feel free to post an image or message or whatever.

What this also means is we have more bandwidth and space to work with here at Fat Penguin if we ever need it.

Often I wonder why I am still carrying around this large clunky Treo. Its huge in my pocket, I don’t often use all of those cool features I bought it for, and when I’m on the phone my head is lit up like a jack-o-lantrine for a good while until the lscreen light shuts off.

Tonight, however, it has pulled its weight. When the power goes out its the ultimate utility belt… flash light (bright enough to work in any situation), music, news (like when the hell is the power going to come back on, an important question in 100 degree weather), phone calls, and of course posting to fat penguin before passing out in a dark sweat.

Ohhhhh powers back… Reverting back to considering this swiss army knife a heafty paper weight.

Soo… to continue the story about the lizards I started earlier. The weekend after July 4th I took another camping trip up to Pine Flat. The fishing was average at best, but the lizarding was fantastic. Over the period of a single day and a half I ended up catching 5 Western Fence Lizards, 3 California Skinks, 3 Garter Snakes, and 1 Alligator Lizard. I took 3 of the Fence Lizards, 2 Skinks, 1 Alligator Lizard, and 2 Garter Snakes home.

Due to the amount of reptiles I caught, my cousin gave me her 135 Gallon Aquarium. The thing was a bitch to move honestly. Just me and my girlfriend moved it from the cousin’s house into my apartment. My apartment on the second floor. Unfortunatly it was about 400 pounds so that was pretty painful and akward, but we got it going and all set up. At this point is when I started burning cash due to the inexperience of setting one of these things up.

Read on to find out everything that happened during the setup, as well as see more videos of all the inhabitants.
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Cory + Fishing Pole + Water + 2 hours = Dinner for 10.
Cory + Hands + Goggles + Water + 2 hours = Dinner for 3.

While I may know a lot about anime, and a lot about games, my real specality and interest lies in fishing. I have been fishing since I was extremely young, and have always been excellent at it. You can say fishing is luck all you want, until you get next to someone who excels at it, and that goes right out the window. I am actually a really friendly guy, and enjoy helping peple, and so on, but when it comes to fishing I get an enjoyment out of going near peple who have been fising for hours (if not days while camping) and showing them up. It know its bad, but I cant help but smile when I catch fish after fish next to people who have not gotten a bite for hours. This does not happen every time, but it happens often. I do pretty good fising at lakes, but when I am at a creek or small river I can do unbelievable things.
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Rest in peace, (and unfortunatly pieces), my little lizard friend. Two weeks ago durning my 9 day vacation I headed up to Mammoth Pool near Yosimite for some fishing and camping. While I was up there, with the help of my two young cousins distracting it, I managed to catch an elusive tiger whiptail. These lizards are lightning fast, moving the distance of a football field in mere seconds. Was excited to finally have one of these, since I had tried catching them before to no avail. I used a fishing pole with a very loose noose to slip around its next while my cousins scared it where I needed it to be. BAM….
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Saturday evening my main Windows box running 2000 Pro all of the sudden experienced a corrupted ntoskernel and then the hard drive started to make quiet ticking noises. From then on, the hard drive became inaccessible and I crapped in my pants! All my data gone! Save me!!!