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@carlosfandango
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34 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 10 Aug \ on: What will you have for your last meal? AskSN
Not to be disrespectful to the concept I would ask for steak. 28-day aged as I may as well try to get an extra month….
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 10 Aug \ parent \ on: How resilient are you? AskSN
It is both challenging and powerful stuff.
42 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 10 Aug \ parent \ on: How resilient are you? AskSN
That’s nice to hear. Perhaps it wasn’t entirely worthless then
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 9 Aug \ on: The Stacker News Freedom Library BooksAndArticles
‘Anarchy, State, and Utopia’ by Robert Nozick
100 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 8 Aug \ parent \ on: How resilient are you? AskSN
Great book… a powerful story and exploration of suffering in the face of near hopelessness. Resilience certainly sums it up.
My favourite quote;
‘Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.’ Viktor E. Frankl
66 sats \ 3 replies \ @carlosfandango 8 Aug \ parent \ on: How resilient are you? AskSN
It was not worthy of the book. My review deserved to be vapourised…
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 14 Jul \ parent \ on: What makes a Stacker? AskSN
^^ ‘stacking value’ quote of the day
24 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 14 Jul \ on: Stacker Saloon
(Throwback) No snail anymore… heard he was feeling a bit sluggish.
55 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 1 Jul \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
Old work injury. Painkillers help but they are not a cure. Some days are better than others and I am hoping to get to a point I can cope with periods of typing. So maybe.
124 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 1 Jul \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
That’s good. Damn speech-to-text can’t spell for shit though.
220 sats \ 4 replies \ @carlosfandango 1 Jul \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
I’m not sure which bit you are referring to but a typical Carlos reply would be;
‘I’m more of a ‘controlled explosion’ than a blast, but since my party tricks are more intellectualI I doubt you would get them’
And I would probably take a kicking for it… but I’m all about the chaos…
191 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 30 Jun \ on: Book Review: Nobody Wants Your Sh*t BooksAndArticles
Asking the former Mrs Fandango during her Marie Kondo phase..
‘But does this item bring joy darling’ ‘No… it strains the pasta. Idiot’
Eventually she got rid of another thing that didn’t bring her joy either…. and it brought him a lot of peace!
24 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 29 Jun \ on: How do you take notes? AskSN
Analogue for the win…. writing and putting thoughts to paper/animal skin/cave wall is thousands of years old. It’s therefore likely that the two process (thinking and expressing) are closely aligned speed wise.
Good quality paper and pencil for posterity :)
36 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 29 Jun \ on: Books & Articles Weekly, Issue 71 BooksAndArticles
Missed the Stats NZ post…. thanks for sharing.
‘Data is digital gold’ ….terrifying
21 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 19 Jun \ on: Cuillin Ridge - Isle of Skye Photography
Long time since I seen those hills. Sunsets at Waternish Point and Talisker whisky… happy memories.
42 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 19 Jun \ parent \ on: Million Sat Madness is a Keynesian Beauty Contest meta
Posh classics and mathematics scholar with minimal economics training yet tells everyone else how economics can be improved.
Didn’t hold him back though.
Actually see a lot of parallels; ‘Hi, I’m new here, i know nothing about anything but will fix Bitcoin’
40 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 8 Jun \ parent \ on: Carlos Alcaraz is the Indiana Pacers of Tennis Stacker_Sports
It was a great battle between the very clinical and the super passionate. I have no doubt this is the first Grand Slam final of many to come.