Life

My daughter shot a bullseye at her archery class.

This got me thinking about the etymology of the word bullseye, which I was not able to find anywhere. I'm guessing that calling the centre of a target a bullseye has something to do with bulls, but what, exactly, I couldn't say.

I did discover where the term point-blank comes from. The point refers to pointing at the target. Blank, in this case, is a term for a bullseye dating back to 1554. It stems from the fact that the centers of archery targets were frequently painted white, and blanc is French for white.

MaxiCode

I also found reference to the funky synbol on the left, called MaxiCode, which is a type of 2D bar code. Here is the web site that describes it.

Oddly enough, if you go to the root web site http://www.maxicode.com it takes you to UPS. It claims to be a public domain symbology. Wonder how it will do with RFID?

Interesting where the web will lead you...

I found some digital photos I took last fall through a friend's reflector telescope.

Honestly I had no expectations, as I just held the camera to the eyepiece and snapped when it looked like there was something glowing in the viewfinder.

The telescope looked like this one, but I honestly have NO idea what it was.