Heh.  I'm an O'Reilly fan I suppose.  They taught me perl, among other things, and that has been absolutely priceless in my current position.  I read the llama book from cover to cover, and actually enjoyed Randal's gentle humor and easy to follow style.  Then I bought the Perl CD Bookshelf which at that time had the llama book and the cookbook, full text and searchable, on a CD.  I literally learned both how to program and how to program perl by cutting and pasting out of those two books on the CD.  My code probably shows it too, but it gets the job done.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?