Marc: Did you put the new raccoon pictures in?
Todd: *playing starcraft* Yeah
Marc: All of them?
Todd: Yeah
Marc: That's funny because we didn't give you any raccoon pictures to put in. You're a liar.
Todd: Are you sure? (pause) Weird. *launches 3 front attack on enemy base*

As Webmaster Todd's worldwide Starcraft rank reached its zenith, the once venerable siteofpower fossilized.

Meanwhile, CPP, penniless, was faced with a difficult situation. Nerds with Todd-class acumen were rare and often dangerous. Without such a nerd siteofpower could not exist. Yet it was not acceptable to revert back to a lesser web site. CPP was going to hold its ground. It was decided that Brian would handle the site problem, one way or another.

He considered three options:

1. Find a successor.
2. Become a webmaster himself .
3. Crazy idea.

Brian disliked the first because he didn't like being at the mercy of a powerful nerd. Brian disliked the second because then he would have to handle all the tedious webmaster duties, perhaps forever. The third idea struck Brian as very exciting. He determined to find out what it was.

After weeks of "brianstorming" everything became clear. He would create an artificial intelligence to handle this crap. He would program it to be like Todd-class nerds, but better. Perfect. Like Blade, the synthetic being would have all of their strengths, none of their weaknesses. And even he would add other strengths that they didn't even have. And in fact it would be programmed to have NO weaknesses at all. It was a brilliant idea really.

Brian began researching what webmasters had to know so that he could build a vast knowledgebase that the AI could draw from. He discovered that it was more boring than he thought. But it would all be worth it in the end.

Since Blake was a robot, Brian decided to also take a peak inside Blake's magnesium skull while he was in sleep mode. Maybe some lessons could be learned. There were many wires and glowing shapes but Brian could not make sense of it. It was frustrating but at least he managed to extract one of the smaller crystals to see if it could be used for anything. Robots was unaffected except for intermittent violent acts - punching chairs, lamps - seemingly triggered by dairy products.

Brian also began sowing the seeds of consciousness by running spectacularly repetitive problem scenarios on the several "neural net" evolutionary data structures that would collectively comprise the AI's capacity for judgment. Additionally Brian developed adaptable perceptual algorithms based upon the principles of fuzzy logic. Because Brian's algorithms were more flexible and farther-reaching than conventional approaches, he called them "hairy logic" instead.

Finally, Brian programmed his creation to have more steadfast determination and valor than Webmaster Todd ever would.

Driven by his uncompromising vision of the ideal webmaster, Brian unwittingly leapt to the fore of AI research. No one had even heard of hairy logic before his breakthrough. He will soon publish his findings in the next issue of Applied AI Journal (PART 1: Volume 9 Number 4, January/February 2004).

Brian christened the AI "Terragon" which is an awesome name. The name comes from two words that Brian thought were relevant:

"terrible" - here meaning formidable in nature i.e. terrible lizard
"paragon" - a model of excellence

Professor Rodeon Heiss of Carnegie Mellon University was granted an intimate audience with Terragon shortly after he went online. In regard to Terragon's competence as a webmaster, Professor Heiss concluded:

"Teragon is a final solution for all time - even after the human race is extinct."

A bit of trivia to put things in perspective: The current siteofpower was created by simply typing the number 38 into Terragon's input matrix. Webmaster Todd, dude, you are obsolete.