Well, oddly enough, I was already thinking the same thing. Neil says that he'll cut me a deal on future cruises if I solve this problem for him, but then I can turn around and write up the experience as a class to teach on PerlWhirl, and also turn that into an article for which I get paid, and then take that paid-for article and put it on my website for free, and then the author of AI::Genetic can put that as an example in his distro.

Everybody wins.