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PWC 393's tasks are "Pythagoras Multiplied" and "Prime Steps". As much as I hate the band, when I saw "steps", I thought of Gimmie Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Then I remembered three is a prime number.

sigh. Sometimes the songs pick themselves.

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sigh. Sometimes the songs pick themselves.
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September 30, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge: Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog!

Perl Weekly Challenge 392's tasks are "Convert Palindrome" and "Words Length Product".

If we want music with palindromes, you can't do much better than "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bob".

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September 24, 2026 at 4:01 AM
PWC 391's tasks are "Array Median" and "Arrange Box".

I was trying really hard to think of some music to go with "array", "median", or "arrange"... when a voice in my head hit me with a brick and said "Music. Box. The Musical Box, you bozo."

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September 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM
PWC 390's tasks are "Decode String" and "Order Characters".

Back in April PWC 369 had a task "Group Division" which made me think of Joy Division. Well "Order Characters" made me think of New Order. So enjoy all 7:30 of Blue Monday.

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September 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
PWC 389's tasks are "Reorder Notes" and "ZigZag Subarray".

There's a Roy Orbison song called Zig Zag from the soundtrack of a 1970 movie by the same name. It's not that great compared to other Roy songs, but then again, it's not that bad, either.

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September 2, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge 388's tasks are "Dyck Words" and "Secret Santa".

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

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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…
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August 28, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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!!!"

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August 19, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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.

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August 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM
PWC 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.

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August 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge: A heaven on earth, they call it Base-N Street

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."

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July 29, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge 383's tasks are "Similar List" and "Nearest RGB".

Since this week's tasks are about finding things that are close, but not exact, and my is on a Weird Al kick, let's pick "Close But No Cigar" as this week's musical selection.

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July 23, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge: The World Turned Upside Down!

Perl Weekly Challenge 382's tasks are "Hamiltonian Cycle" and "Replace Question Mark".

I knew I needed to use a song from Hamilton: An American Musical...

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July 16, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge 381's tasks are "Same Row Column" and "Smaller Greater Element".

This week I honed in on "great" for the music choice, and Freddie Mercury's version of The Great Pretender immediately jumped to mind.

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July 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge 380's tasks are "Sum of Frequencies" and "Reverse Degree".

For music...
She's as sweet as Tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree...

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July 1, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Perl Challenge: Shift to low gear, a $50 fine my friend!

I'm making another entry backfilling the challenges I missed while my mother was dying; I'm doing these in her honor.

PWC 297's tasks were "Contiguous Array" and "Semi-Ordered Permutation".

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June 26, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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.

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June 23, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge 378's tasks are "Second Largest Digit" and "Sum of Words".

I blame, er, thank my wife for this music selection...

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June 17, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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.

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June 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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June 3, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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.

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May 26, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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".

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May 24, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge 374's tasks are "Count Vowel" and "Largest Some-digits Number".

For the music, 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?"

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May 22, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Perl Weekly Challenge 373's tasks are "Equal List" and "List Division".

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

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May 12, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge: Empty Substrings and Empty Spaces

Perl Weekly Challenge 372's tasks are "Rearrange Spaces" and "Largest Substring".

The music connection, though, is very train of thought and tenuous.

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May 6, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Perl Weekly Challenge 371's tasks are "Missing Letter" and "Subset Equilibrium". Immediately, I heard The Box Tops in my head.

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April 29, 2026 at 3:38 AM