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Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by steveklabnik »

dhimes wrote: post #171
dhimes wrote: post #137

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Yes, you can't say it any more... It actually fell out of favor long ago, but originally it wasn't considered all that bad of a term IIRC (I was pretty young).

For some reason I can't reply to alexophile and steveklabnik here, so I'll just leave this: alexophile: you may be correct about this- I'm too young to remember. But I heard it used by people who had no other signs of misogyny that I ever noticed, which is why I had that impression. Carlin was one of those people to the best of my knowledge. steveklabnik: But there are terms that you "can't use" now that were never p…

> For some reason I can't reply to alexophile and steveklabnik here, so I'll just leave this:

If too many replies happen too fast, HN hides the reply link to try and slow down conversation. You can always get around this by clicking the 'link' link, but the idea is to encourage in-depth replies over chatty conversation, so use it wisely!

That said, while some people may have been running around saying "Negro" in a scientific manner, I'm sure many more were using it as a slur. Even then, they may not have intended it to be a slur, but that doesn't mean it's not exposing institutionalized racism; "he's not racist, he's just old."

I see this happening myself with 'gay' and 'faggot.' I have nothing against homosexuals, yet in anger I often use terms that are derogatory to them. It's something I'm working on.

Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by eru »

tarkin2 wrote: post #142
edw519 wrote: post #29

Maybe we're lucky in Pittsburgh, but we have the best of both worlds at the main branch of the Carnegie Library. You can take a tour of where I work 2 or 3 days per week: http://www.clpgh.org/locations/main/tours/virtualtour/ It's fantastic. It was built by Andrew Carnegie in 1895 and most of it is original. I get inspiration from the 20 foot ceilings and hand made ornamentation everywhere you look. They simply don't…

The British library also has a coffee shop within. Not a bad building, plenty of reading rooms, fairly attractive, too.

And easy to reach from, say, Cambridge via King's Cross.

Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by d5tryr »

I work at a large public library that actively encourages work of all kinds within.

Free wifi, power points for recharging laptops (indoors and in the gardens surrounding), free bookable meeting rooms, designated quiet and non-quiet areas, a cafe, and even a recording studio.

Libraries are torch bearers of civilisation, and in an age when Alexandria has been reborn in an ethereal form, they are devoted to sustaining culture and knowledge in whatever manner is required.

Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by infocaptor »

steveklabnik wrote: post #162
infocaptor wrote: post #99

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vow, another pittsburgher. I once used the North hills library and it was really productive. Will have to check out the moon library.

There's a bunch of us around here.

Hey Steve, you got pretty cool website. Was really tempted to enter a password at the bottom :)

Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by steveklabnik »

infocaptor wrote: post #195
steveklabnik wrote: post #162

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There's a bunch of us around here.

Hey Steve, you got pretty cool website. Was really tempted to enter a password at the bottom :)

Thanks. :) I'm going to make it a real terminal someday...

Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by Locke1689 »

dhimes wrote: post #86
ramchip wrote: post #74

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You'll have to refrain these thoughts. It's a catholic campus ;)

It's a George Carlin pun: "Johnson sends Humphrey a broad (abroad). Details, along with some wild films, after these messages." "Broad" is an old-fashion slang reference for woman in the US- much like "chick" became later. People who used the term "broad" non-perjoratively are well into their seventies now.

Wait, what? I have never heard "broad" used pejoratively (as a native English speaker of age 21). If anything it's archaic, not offensive.

Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by SkyMarshal »

snippyhollow wrote: post #61
edw519 wrote: post #29

Maybe we're lucky in Pittsburgh, but we have the best of both worlds at the main branch of the Carnegie Library. You can take a tour of where I work 2 or 3 days per week: http://www.clpgh.org/locations/main/tours/virtualtour/ It's fantastic. It was built by Andrew Carnegie in 1895 and most of it is original. I get inspiration from the 20 foot ceilings and hand made ornamentation everywhere you look. They simply don't…

I used to work (a few years ago) at Sainte-Geneviève library (in Paris), and it was as you said: inspirational. You simply "had to" work once there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_Sainte-Genevi...

The second picture in your link reminds me a lot of the NY (City) Public Library reading room. Loved that place when I lived there, one of my favorites. I understand Isaac Asimov did too.

Re: Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

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Post by akgerber »

Libraries are also available just about everywhere in the US. I was bike touring this summer and was doing a little freelancing on my netbook. I could stop in a good library in just about any town of 500+ (and definitely a county seat) and pick up wifi & charge everything in a power outlet.
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