<story><title>Ditch Starbucks and work at the library</title><url>http://52tiger.net/ditch-starbucks-and-work-at-the-library/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+52Tiger+%2852+Tiger%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexophile</author><text>In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I&apos;d rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures.&lt;p&gt;[bg: I really like libraries - worked at one in the suburbs in high school and have since moved to the city, which exaggerated the weird bits]&lt;p&gt;One thing that&apos;s worth noting: if you&apos;re on a college campus, a great place to find some legit quiet time is in &lt;i&gt;departmental&lt;/i&gt; libraries, especially the social sciences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>A couple years back, I decided to pay a visit to the campus library during the FISL (international free-software forum) that happens every year in Porto Alegre, Brazil on the PUC (pontifical catholic university) campus. I needed to grab some articles from CACM and their library has full access to the ACM online library, as well as decent wireless, something no tech event quite manages to have.&lt;p&gt;Porto Alegre is notorious for having a disproportionate number of cute girls. I was on the Engineering floor and, even there, I got distracted several times by them.&lt;p&gt;So, no, it&apos;s not every library that&apos;s cute-girl-free.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, they don&apos;t serve coffee.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ditch Starbucks and work at the library</title><url>http://52tiger.net/ditch-starbucks-and-work-at-the-library/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+52Tiger+%2852+Tiger%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexophile</author><text>In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I&apos;d rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures.&lt;p&gt;[bg: I really like libraries - worked at one in the suburbs in high school and have since moved to the city, which exaggerated the weird bits]&lt;p&gt;One thing that&apos;s worth noting: if you&apos;re on a college campus, a great place to find some legit quiet time is in &lt;i&gt;departmental&lt;/i&gt; libraries, especially the social sciences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RickHull</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I&apos;d rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ha!  Reminds me of my Brooklyn Public Library experience.  The building looks fantastic on the outside, but on the inside it is a dreary, institutional wasteland.  I had to pick my inspiration up off the floor when I walked in.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Public_Library_by_DS.JPG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Public_Library_by...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;After I located the one room with outlets, I crammed my way onto the folding table and connected to the flaky wifi, which needs to be reauthorized every hour.  While answering emails, I could not help but notice the hardcore anime porn viewing session at the bank of workstations across from the table.  I doubt I&apos;ll be back.</text></comment>