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Rationality vs. Umbrage

June 14, 2013 Follow Up

Four days in, sales of the [Scriptnotes t-shirts](http://store.johnaugust.com) are going fairly smoothly. We briefly blew off the lid of our PayPal account yesterday, but have been able to keep everything at a good simmer since then.

We’ll end up selling several hundred shirts — the upper limit of what we were prepared to handle. ((What if we had sold thousands? Just because it’s a high-class problem, doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. Physical goods are hard to scale, and we would have been scrambling to get them printed and shipped.)) Thank you to everyone who ordered one one. (Or four, in the case of one guy.)

I get a push notification on my iPhone every time an order is placed, which is addictive in a uniquely modern and pointless way. I muted them so my phone wouldn’t buzz all night, but the notices are waiting every time I unlock the screen.

We were originally only going to offer an orange shirt that matched the podcast logo, but at the last minute decided to add an easier-to-wear blue-gray. That seems to have been a good choice, because Rational Blue is outselling Umbrage Orange 2:1.

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We’ll be closing orders next Friday, June 21st. So if you want one, [head to the store](http://store.johnaugust.com).

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