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How is work like prison?

Prison cells are 6 feet by 8 feet (source wikipedia)
Some office cubicle is 5 by 5 feet now whereas before they were 8×10 feet (source theweek.com)

Prisoners get 2 hours outside each day. (HuffingtonPost writes “in many prisons we have mandated that inmates receive a minimum of two hours outside each day”)
Office worker get lunch break as time permits, but many times it is at their desk.

Most prisoners get three meals per day (source)
Office worker grab a cup of coffee and a muffin at Starbucks on the way to work.

Gluten Free Humor

No offense intended. Having celiac disease and being gluten sensitivity is not funny.

There are some humor found on the web…

Gluten-free cartoons and comics

Comedian John Pinette’s clip on gluten …

Here is The Les Misérables food allergy parody …

Another gluten-free song…

Sketch artist funny portraits on the road

Sketch artist October Jones makes sketches while traveling. They are pretty funny. Take a look on ohgizmo.com or photos on his twitter feed.

CodePlay’s Viva La Vida song on YouTube with lyrics

CodePlay’s Viva La Vida song has a nice tune. But some of the words may be hard to catch if you are listening to it for the first time. Linked is YouTube video that show lyrics as well.

Holiday Dinner Party Parody on YouTube about Food Intolerances

Funny…

Techy Songs

Here are some techy songs (mostly consisting of computer and biochem) …

Jonathan Coulton wrote Mandelbrot Set about fractals and Benoit Mandelbrot — about mathematics. Here is a YouTube version with lyrics. You can find his song on JonathanCoulton.com. His well known song is Code Monkey. He used to write computer code before writing songs. If you need to memorize the list of presidents, try this one.
TCA (Kreb’s) Cycle Rap by Wilson Lam — about biochemistry.
Write in C is about computer programming.
Cellular Respiration — somewhat related to the Kreb cycle and electron transport. And another one.
Glycolysis by sciencemusicvideos — these are like musical lectures.
And some more here.

Song about Ikea

For those who are familiar with the Swedish furniture store Ikea, Jonathan Coulton wrote a humorous song about it which could be found on his site here. You can see the lyrics done in kinetic typography on YouTube.

Perhaps the song Jonathan Coulton is most known for is Code Monkey (he used to write computer code before writing songs professionally).

Scott Kim’s Inversion Gallery

As Scott Kim puts it … “An inversion is a word or name written so it reads in more than one way”.

He has come up with many good one which are displayed on his site gallery linked here.

They are quite imaginative and unique. You have to see them. I can not explain it.

He also gave this TED talk about “the art of puzzles”…

“ABC” poem with each word starting with letter of alphabet in order

The poem “ABC” by Robert Pinsky has 26 words exactly (not including the title). Each words starts with a letter of the alphabet in order. The first words starts with “A”. The second word starts with “B”. The third word starts with “C”. And so on, until the last word which starts with “Z”. You can read/see the poem on The New York Review of Books.

Song: “Just Give Me a Reason”

From Wikipedia…

“Just Give Me a Reason” is a song written and recorded by American recording artist andsongwriter Pink featuring fun.’s lead singer Nate Ruess. The song was chosen as the third single from Pink’s sixth studio album The Truth About Love (2012). … The song became an international success, topping charts in over 20 countries worldwide”

Here’s link to performance of the song on YouTube. And the lyrics here.