This week I’m having trouble locking in on a musical theme. With the tasks being “Lucky Integer” and “Relative Sort”, nothing really jumps out at me. I finally decided that “Lucky” was the key, and that made me think of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s Lucky Man.
Now that we have our musical accompaniment, we can work on Perl Weekly Challenge 284!
“Bag!” “Bag?”
“Bag! Bag!” “What do you mean, bag, bag?”
“Bag! Bag! Bag!” “What bag?”
“No bag!” “No bag?”
“Your bag! Suddenly! Here! Now—gone!”
When I saw the tasks for this week, my programming brain immediately screamed “Bag!” (it’s becoming my favorite class for PWC problems) and the moment that happened, my theater brain immediately went to Vicky and Roger in Noises Off. My wife, however, pointed out that Noises Off isn’t a musical, so she suggested this week’s musical theme, Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag. James Brown is certainly appropriate accompaniment to Perl Weekly Challenge 283…
Continue readingThis week the tasks are all about characters ch-ch-ch-changing, so of course I needed the musical theme to be David Bowie’s Changes.
So let’s be quite aware as we’re going through Perl Weekly Challenge 282!
This week, both tasks are chess-based, so I’m just linking you to the original concept album for the musical Chess, knowing full well most of you will only know the big single, One Night in Bangkok.
So let’s move on to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness: Perl Weekly Challenge 281!
There’s no relation to the problems for this week’s musical theme. Earlier this week, my wife and I watched the documentary Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, so you’re getting my favorite Gordon Lightfoot song… Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
So now, while we’re listening to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, let’s construct some code as part of Perl Weekly Challenge 280!