It's Business Time...

Ashley showed this to me.

The clip is from Flight of the Conchords. Check out this clip as well.

Congratulations Brian and MacKenzie

I was at Brian and MacKenzie's wedding this weekend, and Ashley took a bunch of really good pictures:







My parents took a bunch too, so I'll have to post those when I get them.

On Feynman

Richard Feynman is one of my favorite people in all of science.  His writing is great, and he just seems like an ordinary guy who is playing the part of an absolute genius.  He provides concrete examples of everything he describes, which makes his writing very easy to understand.

I just started listening to the Feynman Lectures on Physics on my iPod, and I think it may be the best audio book I've every listened to.  He refers to atoms "jiggling" and "wiggling", and describes the interaction of magnetic fields through the analogy of using water in a pool to push a floating object.

I'm glad somebody had the foresight to record these lectures back in '62.

Welcome to The Definite Article

Hi!

My name is Russ Lankenau, and I'm a software engineer for SSS Research, Inc. in Naperville, IL.  I'm currently the technical lead for the team building iSpace, a Web 2.0 portal designed for geospatial analysis and visualization.  Previously, I worked on DECIDE, a structured argumentation tool designed to be an analyst's workbench for developing and saving arguments.  DECIDE came in second in the corporate category in the IEEE VAST 2006 Contest.

This is my personal bit-bucket for thoughts on computer science, technology, and anything else that comes to mind.  I also post on the iSpace blog at http://ispace-blog.sss-research.com.