This week in the Perl Weekly Challenge, I’m free associating. I want to use a Bag for task 2, and my wife has a bag from her production of Ragtime two and a half years ago that whenever she uses it, I sing 🎶 The people called it Bag-time… 🎶
So let’s be the Perl on the swing for Perl Weekly Challenge 319.
Still working on getting into the swing of weekly blogging again. Nothing jumped out at me for a musical theme this week, so I just picked King Crimson’s Cat Food off the top of my head. Having three cats sleeping all around me probably had something to do with it.
So before I need to feed these cats, let’s jump into Perl Weekly Challenge 318.
I haven’t been feeling like blogging lately. In November, my mother, the woman who taught me how to program and was for decades my default person to ask complex SQL questions, went into the hospital because she was having trouble breathing. In early January, she died.
I’ve been struggling to deal with my feelings about this, but one of the things that I knew deep in my heart is that she wanted me to return to Perl blogging. If for no other reason than to honor her…
And with the first task being “circular”, I couldn’t help think about Joni Mitchell’s Circle Game. My mother loved folk music, too.
So let’s circle round to Perl Weekly Challenge 316.
I’m not really feeling music recently. I’m not feeling much of anything, but I need to do the challenge. So here’s Perl Weekly Challenge 296.
I was able to work on task 1 on Monday, but I haven’t been able to focus since. Here’s three solutions for task 1 of Perl Weekly Challenge 294.
Don’t wanna discuss it
Think it’s time for a change
You may get disgusted
Start thinking that I’m strange
I mean, I guess I am strange for always wanting to include music in the weekly challenge, but with a first challenge like this, how could I not link to Van Morrison’s Domino.
There’s no need for argument in Perl Weekly Challenge 293.
You didn’t know what the Weekly Challenge was / Until you met a hacker on a Github bus / I got there in the nick of time / Before he got his code across your git commit line…
Yeah, yeah, it’s a stretch, but it’s an excuse to pull out Ian Hunter’s Once Bitten, Twice Shy (yes, Ian Hunter).
So you got the rhythm, you got the speed, you got Perl Weekly Challenge 292.
(sorry I’m only doing one challenge this week; it’s been a rough week)
This week’s Perl Weekly Challenge task 2 is about poker hands, so the musical theme this week has to be Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler.
So ante up and let’s deal out for Perl Weekly Challenge 291.
Not every time is the music that the Perl Weekly Challenge inspires going to be a Broadway show tune, a banger from classic rock, or even a baroque fugue. Sometimes, it’s going to be a marketing jingle: 🎶 Double your pleasure, double your fun, with double good, double good, Doublemint Gum! 🎶
See, it’s because “Luhn” rhymes with fun. No? Fine, let’s chew on Perl Weekly Challenge 290 for a little bit.
When I think about the second task and how it jumbled words, my mind immediately went to Lewis Carroll, and that meant that tonight’s musical theme needed to be Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit.
So let’s feed your head on Perl Weekly Challenge 289!