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.