There's a site called Teachers Pay Teachers (http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/) . You can make a little money and still provide the lessons for cheap.

I wish my insurance paid for mine. Helly, they don't even cover the visit to an audiologist.

Not to shill, but I got a Clareza 8 (8 channels) from Zounds Hearing ( http://zoundshearing.com/customers/products/clareza/ ). It's a mini behind the ear device so no custom fitting except for tuning it to your issue frequencies.
I did a bit of research before buying it and got it mainly because of 4 features:

-Price. It was $1500 (2 years ago). Most others I saw started at $2000.
-It uses a remote control to adjust volume, treble and bass. (It also has 4 preset modes which is handy).
-It uses a rechargeable battery. Each charge lasts about 16 hours. I put in the charging station each night (along with the remote control) and I'm good to go the next morning. The company replaces the battery free every 6 months or so.
-It has an on/off switch. Others I've seen require you to pull the battery to turn it off.

Yeah, it'd be great if they were cheaper. People who can't afford them simply do without, which really sucks. Not to be dramatic as I only have moderate hearing loss in my left ear, but getting my hearing aid really made life better.

MacGruber wins as he dies in every episode!

MacGruber (Wikipedia)

"my boss and I are the only ones left"
Forget outsourcing, you need to figure out why there's only two of you left and whether or not the company will exist long enough to complete the product.

If you want to ignore that and concentrate on programmers think of it this way: you're either in a failing company about to go out of business so no one would want to work there, OR your in a start up that some folks might want to work there.

Failing company: you're doomed.
Start-up company: you need to get a quality programmer with incentive to write quality code and stick around long enough to see it through. Otherwise you'll get the "I won't be here next week" mentality with a contractor. And forget off-shoring it. You'll spend more time discussing the work (then correcting what they send you) than you would actually doing the work yourself.

Isn't he the one that killed the planet Pluto?

So the idea is that someone in an audience is going to point this thing that looks like a hand-held mini missile launcher at a politician and silence them. How are they aiming this device? Oh, a laser pointer. Like you might find on a rifle.

If you happen to be by this person I suggest you move before the real guns with their laser sights start firing.

He needs to setup each machine so it can be controlled via a webserver. People could log in and sign-on to a specific machine and operate it for a period of time, say an hour if others are in line for it, if not, they have it as long as they want. He could run it only when he's there so keep the mischief to a minimum.

There's already kits for it ... http://www.pcworld.com/article/131237/build_your_own_internetcontrolled_robots.html

This is one of the coolest and scariest things I've seen in a while.

I can just imagine the Terminator riding one of those things into battle. Or mating with it ...

http://that-figures.blogspot.com/2011/02/vintage-view-micronauts-baron-karza-and.html

Duh ... men want to have sex.

Does Apple provide a way to replace a hard drive? Without access to a booted system you can't download anything. Unless they want you to bring in your machine ...

The pain!!!

Exactly.

And he came up with the rust stickers for bikes / cars after reading William Gibson's Virtual Light .
[Google Books] http://books.google.com/books?id=MG8ohto0bTgC&lpg=PP1&dq=william%20gibson%20virtual%20light&pg=PA175#v=onepage&q=bike&f=false

"worked into the fake rust and the carefully frayed silver duct-tape."

There's a subset of Ada called SPARK that has these concepts.

SPARK (Programming Language)

That's what ACME umbrella's are for!

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