Does Joel Furr sell t-shirts and stuff?
Yes and no. He used to do that a lot, but has more or less stopped now that he has a salaried job that requires a commute and now that he has a wife. When he has time (read: not often, these days) Joel designs various shirts and mugs and stuff and gets a local screen printing firm to make them for him once he’s accumulated orders from various people around the world. People read about the shirts and stuff on the Internet and send orders and payment via ordinary postal mail. Joel collects the orders, deposits the checks, and then orders the shirts in the requested sizes and colors from the screen printer. This sometimes takes a few months from the time orders are first collected to the time the last shirt is in someone’s hands — sometimes it takes quite a while to generate enough orders to make ordering a particular shirt cost-effective, and other times, so many orders come in (for example, for the Perl/RSA t-shirt) that it takes a hell of a long time to open and enter all the orders i
