Tungsten Carbide

The Blog of Designer, Creator, Business-Owner, Mac-User, Programmer and Student, Matt Norris.

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Oh my.

July 7th, 2009 · No Comments

So, this summer seems to have started with a lot of busyness that doesn’t seem like it will ever end o___o. I’ve gotten into a project I can’t talk too much about, and I’d just like to put it out there that if all goes as planned, it should be a pretty awesome experience for [...]

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Tags: Development · Fun · Life · MNT stuff · Peoples · Photoshop stuff · Random · TIJ · business

See, it goes like this.

May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

I don’t know why, but more and more I feel like I’m fed up with the same old stuff from school — kids that don’t get to their work, teachers assigning homework that, in all honesty, has no point except to just give something, the mis-weighting of grades. I don’t get it. Perhaps its because [...]

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Design, School, More?

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

So now that school’s started for real, I thought I’d give a few updates on design and whats happening with school and a few of my friends.
First off, Lili [[ salonlili.com ]] and I are working on a sort of promo video, or introduction video to be used at a short event and perhaps many [...]

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Tags: Development · Fun · Homework · Life · MNT stuff · Peoples · Random · School-related · Zephyrus · business

As the Summer Closes, Everything Else is Just Getting Going.

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments

So I thought I should write a post sometime before the end of the summer .. and since to day is technically the last day of summer, it makes it very fitting to do a quick re-cap and wrap before school. In the beginning of the summer, I had [[NO]] idea what I had gotten [...]

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Tags: Development · Fun · Life · Random · School-related · Zephyrus · business

A (100%) Un-Official Review of EHS’s Current Jam 2008

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Before writing this review, I’d like to take a moment to give what my experience is and tell you that I AM IN NO WAY A CRITIC OR PROFESSIONAL REVIEWER. What I’m writing is just my opinion.
Ok. My “experience” isn’t much, but its enough for me to see differences in between different levels [...]

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FINALLY!!

March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

For those of you who know, my macbook’s screen has been broken since .. well .. I think maybe December or November of ‘07. Finally, as of last night, my screen is 100% fixed!!  Finally, I can get back to normal work speeds and begin using Ps again. 

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Last Saturday’s Game (hockey)

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Well .. again, it’s been a while since a post, so i figured I could mention going to the Hornets Hockey Game last Saturday. So I went with CJ and Alice. CJ had box seats. It’s kinda funny … but my first time going to the Excel center was on Friday, with the band, and [...]

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Free Space Desktop Thing …

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

here’s what i got after messing around with photoshop for a long time trying to make a space-like thing. It’s totally free to be used for what ever, as long as you let me know.

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Reading: Tuesday, November 20th, Post A

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Requirements:
2 vocabulary words that you found in the book (with page numbers). Define them in the blog.
3 examples of figurative language (irony, personification, imagery, metaphor, symbol, simile, onomatopoeia, etc.) and how you know it is that literary element.
Pick a quote from the reading and explain its significance (include page number).
Write a sentence in which [...]

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Tags: English · Homework · Life · Random · Reading (school) · School-related

Last weekend…

November 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Last weekend I made a nice round to a guy who sells Vault 12-paks at a good price… and I ended up with 10 of them (+1 diet cherry coke). Here’s a picture:
What else …. I got to start a 1995 computer (see below pics), learn how to disassemble and reassemble a Nintendo DS [...]

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