Mike Battista’s Blog

A quick review here, just so I have a record of the books I’ve read and it motivates me to keep reading instead of playing video games (which is what I’ve been doing for the last 3 days).
Angels and Demons takes place in the same world as The Da Vinci Code, with [...]

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I found this groovy little illusion:  How to Stop Time.  It involves looking at a the second hand of a clock out of the corner of your eye, and it appears to stop moving.  
The site gets cheesiness points for trying to convince people that they are actually stopping time.  I do wonder what the actual [...]

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V and I spent our slack week doing what the week was made for: slacking. We figured slacking would be more efficient in a warm place, so we went to Cuba. Here are some pictures and stories documenting the trip.
The plane ride there was a blast. The Cuban airline isn’t as nice [...]

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