{"id":58,"date":"2005-01-20T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-06-22T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T19:25:00","slug":"odd-todd-makes-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Odd Todd Makes It Big!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was turned on to this by one of my sisters (Thanks Meg!). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddtodd.com\">Odd Todd<\/a>, one of my very favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/flash\">Flash<\/a> authors, apparently got hisself a mainstream gig. He did some content for a story on Social Security presented on <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/\">ABC&#8217;s World News Tonight<\/a> on January 11. <\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgilturtle.com\/ot01.html\">here<\/a> to see the piece. You need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/search.aspx?displaylang=en&#038;categoryid=4\">Windows Media Player<\/a> to watch it. It probably won&#8217;t work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/otherproducts\/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia\">the Macintosh version of WMP<\/a>, due to that verdammt WMV3 format. Sorry! \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n<p>Odd Todd taught himself Flash after being fired from his dotcom-turned-dotgone job, threw up a Web site to display his work (mostly on the subject of being unemployed), put a virtual tip jar on the site, and the rest is history. I don&#8217;t know how much he makes from his site these days (even I gave him five bucks), but at one point in time he was apparently pulling in thousands of dollars a month. It&#8217;s the American Dream, with a piquant Slacker twist.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I love the idea of Odd Todd going all frufru on us. I hope he gets lots of work out of this. Hell, maybe he can get some ad work, on either end of the lens. (&#8220;Odd Todd, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/\">American Express Card!<\/a>&#8220;) Like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crocodilehunter.com\/\">Crocodile Hunter<\/a> doing commercials for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentax.com\/\">Pentax cameras<\/a>, I think he ought to make the most of his popularity while the makin&#8217;s good. <\/p>\n<p>More power to you, Man!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was turned on to this by one of my sisters (Thanks Meg!). Odd Todd, one of my very favorite Flash authors, apparently got hisself a mainstream gig. He did some content for a story on Social Security presented on ABC&#8217;s World News Tonight on January 11. Go here to see the piece. You need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}