I’m making another entry backfilling the challenges I missed while my mother was dying; I’m doing these in her honor.
Perl Weekly Challenge 297‘s tasks were “Contiguous Array” and “Semi-Ordered Permutation”.
I thought about what music I should pick, and “semi” jumped out at me. Semi makes me think trucks, and trucks make me think of Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas.
Perl Weekly Challenge 379‘s tasks are “Reverse String” and “Armstrong Number”.
So, I think for music this week, I’ll give you a number by Armstrong.1
Perl Weekly Challenge 378‘s tasks are “Second Largest Digit” and “Sum of Words”.
I blame thank my wife for this music selection…
Second largest digit
Is not the words in this week’s second task
It’s not that I’m counting
Characters, but if you only knew
How easy… it would be to sum. up. all. these. things!
Sum of words
Is all you have to do to make it real…
Perl Weekly Challenge 377‘s tasks are “Reverse Existence” and “Prefix Suffix”.
Hmmm. Reverse. What does “reverse” make me think of musically? The existence of this song.
Perl Weekly Challenge 376‘s tasks are “Chessboard Squares” and “Doubled Words”.
I already picked Chess the musical back in PWC 281, double for 290, and word for 255 and 360, but I haven’t given any musical love to squares, which is a shame, because it’s hip to be square… (or, wait, do I mean it’s hip to be A square?).
Perl Weekly Challenge 375‘s tasks are “Single Common Word” and “Find K-Beauty”.
🤔 Ok, I’m free-associating here, but the “K” and “Beauty” made me think of Carol King and Beautiful.
In this post, I’m starting to go back and filling in the challenges I missed in 2024-2025 when my mother was hospitalized and dying. Perl Weekly Challenge 295‘s tasks were “Word Break” and “Jump Game”.
As I discovered when I actually made myself a spreadsheet of my music choices, I used Joni Mitchell’s Circle Game three separate times, so I decided to steer clear of that. I’ve played on “word” twice, so that left me with “break” and “jump”. I decided to pick Jump because it made me remember Junior year of high school…
Perl Weekly Challenge 374‘s tasks are “Count Vowel” and “Largest Some-digits Number”.
I can’t go back to Count von Count every time we have a counting problem, so I started thinking about “some”. It didn’t take long… my brain started asking “Hey… won’t you play… another some-digits largest vowel count song? And make me feel at home…”
Perl Weekly Challenge 373‘s tasks are “Equal List” and “List Division”.
But if you insist on knowing my BLISS
I’ll tell you this
If you want to know what the Reason is
I only smile when I lie, then I’ll tell you why…
Because your kiss, your kiss is an equal list
Because your kiss, your kiss divides my list
Because your kiss is on my list of the best things in life
Perl Weekly Challenge 372‘s tasks are “Rearrange Spaces” and “Largest Substring”.
The music connection is very train of thought and tenuous. This morning, my wife linked me a short of The Lakes Brass Quintet playing a polka arrangement of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Misérables. Yet in my head, I was repeating the incorrect lyric “empty chairs and empty spaces“. So now, when I think spaces, all I can think of is this.
You’re welcome.