The words are just numbers in base 26 (using a-z).  They have been carefully
chosen to spell out "The Perl Journal\n" in the following way.

All positive integers, n, (at least within Perl's domain) have the property
that if we (a) replace even numbers by n/2; (b) replace odd numbers by 3*n+1;
(c) keep doing that; then we will sooner or later hit 1.  For example

   5 -> 16 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> 1

The word numbers are subjected to this and the sequence length just happens
to be the ascii characters for "The Perl Journal\n".
