well, you know the old saw--with great power comes absolute whineyness ... er, or corrupted absolution .... or something like that. yeah, anakin does seem to surround himself with a neigh-impenetrable field of whineyness. i wonder, could it be even more powerful than superman's bioelectric field? by the simple metric of my ear, anakin's impressive whineyness is far more insipid than any conceivable bioelectric field.

as it happens, i have access to the supercomputer center at UC San Diego. if we wrote up a decent proposal we could potentially have thousands of number-crunching hours at our whimsy. maybe if we framed it as an AI experiment. any AI programmers in our midsts?

btw, my (female) roommate was reading this thread over my shoulder and just declared her love for you, scruffy! hats off to you, good sir! it's a wonky world when exhaustive knowledge of superman scores high with the ladies.