I'd move into a house that allowed my wife & kids to have more property for horses & horse related stuff
I'd put in a food forest, silvo pasture & raise some cows, & more pigs.
I'd put in a nice shop, wood working, metal working, laser cutter, cnc, 3d printer or 2. that way I could get back into wood working & just play doing stuff

I'd probably also take a really long trip (30-60 days) with my family to see the US,
I'd spend more time with my kids camping, fishing, horseback riding, etc.

Then possibly go walkabout when their older.

http://www.vthreat.com/ was founded, by Marcus Carey, accelerated by http://www.mach37.com/ and recently funded to provide "IT fire drills" to organizations. I'd say if you can get funded & launch a product, it's an important thing to be doing. At the very least have some table top exercises where you or others ask some what if's, then take the answers or lack there of and fix them, and do it again.

Ah, but I had at least one class like that while I was in university. Then the question becomes, if you can't get help from the professor... do you stick it out anyway and TRY to finish, or give up and waste thousands of dollars?

I would expect MOOCs to have less oversight than classes at a traditional university, so more of those unsuitable professor/teachers will slip through. My point is that paying for a class and showing up in person still does not guarantee an education in that subject (unfortunately).

You've got a point, but did you know... FedEx has a contract with USPS to actually move a lot of USPS packages around the country?

</pitiful-rant> !

Flippancy is great - it is our inbuilt and natural coping mechanism in a world that frequently presents us with events beyond our ability to manage, thereby allowing us to retain our sanity. But, sometimes, we need to take a step back and allow ourselves to realise the full severity of them.

After today's tragedies, shouldn't we be talking about ways to stop death, rather than joking about ways to cause it?

(Semi-caveat: I don't mean to sound like a harbinger of doom and gloom. It's just that I have two beautiful girls in the room above my head, and as a result I feel so deeply for those who have suffered the ultimate tragedy today)

Many subjects don't NEED "new and updated" textbooks. Honestly, has primary & secondary math changed in 50 years? Yet new textbooks are issued every 2-3 years. Science changes, but even that is slow compared to a high school student's career - doctorate-level ground-breaking research takes 30 years to filter down to the high school level.

If you're looking at e-books, history and science texts could be simply added on to instead of completely replaced. The publishers probably won't let that happen, though. Big money in textbook publishing.

Many years ago, I ran a site called Half-Empty. It was an exciting time, I was in college, and had hacked together this site (letting my grades suffer in the process) as a way for people to share stories and vote on them. It was kind of like a ghetto version of Digg, where the users posted content not links.

One of the biggest thrills for me ever was when I sent an e-mail to /. about its initial launch and made it onto the front page. My dorm room was Slashdotted, I pulled RAM out of my roommates computers and threw it into my little server, which somehow survived. I knew it was inevitable my cable connection would be cut off so I sent an SOS out for anyone who would be willing to host the site for free, I was a poor college student, and Krellis from DynDNS stepped in. Half-Empty grew for a few years and became a large part of my life and many others. I owe the experience entirely to that initial Slashdotting, which gave the site the momentum it needed to stay alive. I regret not keeping the site up; it was a victim of a hard drive crash and I was enough of an amateur at the time to not have been making regular backups.

So, thanks again Rob. Good luck, and be proud of all you've accomplished with Slashdot. Cheers!

My T500's wifi doesn't work in Ubuntu if I want to use the latest server kernel with 4GB RAM. I had no patience so I just bought a pcmcia card (time is money) -- YMMV.

This generally isn't true. A VC will get preferred stock and as such in a liquidation event they will be able to recover their money before anyone else can. (So if you take on 1M in funding, sell the company for 500K, you're right, you get nothing and they lose 500K). I'm guessing this is what you're thinking of.

If you sell the company for 2M and they put in 1M, they get their 1M back and the rest of the pie can be sliced up in different ways depending on the term sheet. (Google participating preferred stock cap)

What about friends AND a romantic partner? My husband and
i can't go to a party together? ... or did that imply a different type of "celebrating"?

It's apples and oranges. Tassl is a Facebook application that has a fluid UI for navigating courses and using the social network. It's not really a LMS.

The question of the timing of the previous experience is discussed by Essjay here - I note in particular that he does not describe himself as a "licensed paralegal", simply a "paralegal", and specifically notes that no training/licensing is required in Kentucky.

A friend of mine had planned to go stand in line for 8-12 hours for the midnight launch at the Super Walmart in Concord NH. We knew there would be "minumum 20 per store"... and heard rumors that this store would have somewhere in the range of 30-40. When we got there at noon, there were already over 50 people in line; we told our friend and he decided it wasn't worth 12 hours wait in the cold for the possibility that the store had more.

Well, the store did have more. 80, in fact... they didn't sell out until noon on Sunday. My friend was pissed.

That said, I think everyone who really wants a Wii will be able to get one (at market price of $250) by Christmas. I don't think the same can be said for those who want a PS3.