So I took today off to go to a water park with the kids (Mountain Creek, not far from NYC and based on today’s visit highly recommended). Apparently, eBay’s management was also out today, because the company decided to sell Skype to a syndicate of investors led by Silver Lake and including Index Ventures (the original Skype backers) and Andreessen Horowitz (Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s fairly newly minted fund). Come again? I bought a bunch of eBay shares at $14 earlier this year becaus...