{"id":146,"date":"2005-07-18T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.brentnorris.net\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-03-24T12:19:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T18:19:48","slug":"sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/146","title":{"rendered":"Sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every morning I hit a few sites. Actually, there is a cool feature of Firefox<\/a> that lets me make a folder and just drop links in it. Then when I middle click on that folder it just opens all the links in tabs. So in the morning I just open a browser and middle click my folder and all my sites open.<\/p>\n

Anyway, several of the sites are online webcomic sites. Some of them are fairly mainstream ones:<\/p>\n

Penny-Arcade<\/a>
\nPlayer versus Player<\/a><\/p>\n

while a couple of them are less so:<\/p>\n

Order of the Stick<\/a>
\nReal Life<\/a>
\nYirmumah!<\/a><\/p>\n

Now the last one I have be reading for only about 4 months, but I really enjoy the guy that does the drawing. He is a firebrand to a huge degree and makes pretty much no bones about it. I love it. I wish more people were like that.<\/p>\n

So they had a week long donation drive and I dropped him $20. He personally emailed me and ask me if there was any of the artwork from his comics that I would like to have. I mentioned that I like the Seasame Street Medicated<\/a> stuff, so I think I will be getting some of that.<\/p>\n

Also, he mentioned that people could sponsor the site for a month and he would post their banner up on his site. I checked that and saw that it was only $10 a month, so I went ahead and did that to. The banner is up now and he made it for me. I think it is interesting that he picked a picture of the farm to make the banner out of. I thought that was pretty cool myself.<\/p>\n

So now that I have decided to sponsor him, he calls down a shit storm of people bashing him, because he went into a web forum and told a “secret” about the latest Harry Potter book.<\/p>\n

Personally I don’t think that is really that big of a deal. I think the hype and secrecy that this book has been subject to are pretty dumb. The sheer amount of people that have went stupid over these books is enough to make me not want to have anything to do with them at all, AND to make the sheep-ites mad. So, now I am actually happy that he is causing trouble over this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Oh great now I am linked on the main page in the same post as another reference to his giving away the “Potter Secret”. \ud83d\ude42 Wonder how much overspray I’ll get from that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talking about my sponsorship of Yirmumah.net and his spoiling of people’s obsessions. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119,208,178,141,135,171],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-arcade","tag-farm","tag-fox","tag-penny-arcade","tag-rca","tag-webcomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}