Perl Weekly Challenge 388‘s tasks are “Dyck Words” and “Secret Santa”.

Well, normally my brain would work like this: I think “Dyck” sounds like “Dyke”, which reminds me of Dick Van Dyke, and that makes me think…

Then yesterday we all got the news: Dolly Parton died. So let’s enjoy some Santa-adjacent Dolly Parton music: Hard Candy Christmas.

But as I was finishing up, I heard Dolly’s voice in my head:

Perl Weekly Challenge 387‘s tasks are “Rearrange Binary String” and “Atoms Count”.

When I saw that one of this week’s tasks was counting atoms, I thought “This is a job for PARTICLE MAN!!!“

Perl Weekly Challenge 386‘s tasks are “Reverse Base” and “Rational Numbers”.

I figured, since both tasks are all about Algebra, we should listen to some Tom Lehrer (lyrics & sheet music).

Perl Weekly Challenge 385‘s tasks are “Uncommon Words” and “Outermost Parentheses”.

I thought I remembered one of my favored artists doing a song featuring “uncommon”, and the first one that popped up in my music collection was Carole King: An Uncommon Love.

Perl Weekly Challenge 384‘s tasks are “Base N” and “Special Binary Substrings”.

I asked my wife about the music, and she said “Base N? Basin. Basin Street Blues.” So I went on a journey down a rabbit hole of an old jazz/blues standard. I picked the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong version to play here.

Perl Weekly Challenge 383‘s tasks are “Similar List” and “Nearest RGB”.

Since this week’s tasks are both about finding things that are close, but not exact, and because my wife has us on a Weird Al kick lately, let’s pick Close But No Cigar as this week’s musical selection.