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pirates!

Continue to move through the regex chapter. Mostly very interesting. Did skim over some parts, but I've got 1-2 books just on regexes that I'll probably tackle at some point.

Just about done. In the epilogue

For once things go Sostratos' way

regex is fascinating and I'm using it a lot as I go through the 2015 Advent of Code problem set

Things continue to be a lot of fun

Woohoo! Onto chapter 5 and pattern matching. And not a moment too soon as I'm working through the 2015 Advent of Code problems and have used quite a bit of regex.

Very interesting back and forth...

Special delivery

The first book was fun, of course. But this one is a bit more fun for having a few more historical figures in it

This book is intense...

The introduction of Munstrum Ridcully as the Archchancellor of the Unseen University.

I wasn't a big fan of this when I read it the first time. In the context of my re-read I think it's because it's more of a return to the earlier books where it seems more a parody of an idea than a real plot.

A very important and unexpected bargain

Continuing with operators. This is almost more of the "Textbook" version of Perl - how it all functions compared to Learning Perl which is more about getting started programming in Perl.

That went a bit smoother than I thought it might

Onto operators!

ooh boy. Things just got rough.

A trip home and then another couple bits of haggling

And so the journey begins!

Some heavy flirting at the end of the world

Part 1 was awesome. As someone who read the Learning Perl book 10 years ago and hasn't touched it much since, but who does amateur programming - it was just what I needed to jumpstart getting back into Perl. Now, onto part 2! Also, I love the humor of this book.

Coming back to Perl after having done a bunch of Python and some Ruby is making me have a deeper appreciation for the way Perl is written. But they all also feel like cousins. It's so interesting thinking of how they are so similar and yet so different.

Space pirates!

Zombie/vampire plague in Australia, eh? hehe

A fun escape

Getting close to the end. Hmm....wonder if this is a Trilogy or we're headed for an uber-climax.

Current state of a certain character seems like it'd be a decent metaphor for dementia

The ballet clothes factory seems like Amazon with its insistence on where to be at all times

Gosh darn it, Mary! This was supposed to be a bit of sugar after The Parable of the Sower series and now you've just about made me cry for Iris!

Modern zombie tales are about society's fears, so of course someone would write a zombie tale where it's caused by vaccines and terrorists