JAPHs are a part of the larger Perl community, not just a Perl monk thing. Rumor has it merlyn is responsible (I consider him quite capable of explaining his role himself).

At the last Amsterdam.pm meeting Abigail gave a talk on JAPHs. I think I learned more than I ever wanted to know about them. There's supposed to be a link to the talk on the Amsterdam.pm site, but it doesn't seem to be there yet (I am not going to give the direct link here on PM for reasons which will be obvious to people who have been here a little while).

As for what brings me here, it's obviously addiction.