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Eunoia, who is a grumpy, overeducated, facetious, multilingual naturalised German,
blatantly opinionated, old (1944-vintage), amateur cryptologist,
computer consultant, atheist, flying instructor, bulldog-lover, Porsche-driver,
textbook-writer and blogger living
in the foothills south of the northern German plains. Not too shy to
reveal his true name or even whereabouts, he blogs his opinions, and
humour and rants irregularly.
Stubbornly he clings to his beliefs,
e.g. that Faith does not give answers, it only prevents you doing any goddamn questioning.
You are as atheist as he is. When you understand why you don't believe in all the other gods,
you will know why he does not believe in yours.
Oh, and after the death of his old bulldog, Kosmo, he also has a new bulldog, Clara, since September 2018 :-)
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Saturday, February 28, 2026
Six planets in the sky tonight
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus all visible provided
the cloud cover permits, which it didn't here for me, but maybe you will have better luck. The last two will need a telescope. Here is NASA's mashup photo.
Mercury is seen best just after sunset because it is so close to the sun, so let the sun set first.
Venus will be brightest as it is fairly full and is the nearest planet. Jupiter is the largest and
Saturn with its rings can just be seen without a scope.
Neptune and Uranus will need a small telescope. I use a small table-top
scope.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
23rd SID
Now in its 23rd year, the 10th of February is Safer Internet Day (SID). Sound on.
And do NOT click on this suspect link.
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Monday, February 9, 2026
Non-standard clock face
Standard analog clocks have a circular face, annullar scales and 2 or 3 hands.
I have a collection of some non-standard clocks of which I showed you two here .
Visiting my Doc last week, I saw that he also has a non-standard clock in one of his consulting rooms, so I took this photo.
Sadly it only works for German readers, as it displays the time in german only.
Reading the words lit up in the copper face, it says "It is half (to) one". In Germany we count TO the next hour, whereas the English count PAST the previous hour.
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I specifically do not adopt their content, nor do I make it mine.
DEUTSCH : Für alle Seiten, die auf dieser Website verlinkt sind, möchte ich betonen,
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Blog Dewey Decimal Classification : 153
FWIW, 153 is a triangular number, meaning that you can arrange 153 items into an equilateral triangle (with 17 items on a side).
It is also one of the six known truncated triangular numbers, because 1 and 15 are triangular numbers as well.
It is a hexagonal number, meaning that you can distribute 153 points evenly at the corners and along the sides of a hexagon.
It is the smallest 3-narcissistic number. This means it's the sum of the cubes of its digits.
It is the sum of the first five positive factorials. Yup, this is a 153-type blog. QED ;-)
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