[About Me]
03 May 2008
Mike Oren - Master of Science
Since my last post, I decided to stay on for my PhD (changing projects and advisers though--focusing on collaborative user interfaces and picking up a co-major in Sociology), wrote and revised my thesis, successfully defended it, went on a cruise, went to Universal Studios Florida and Disney World, and was accepted to the Season of Usability SIP-Communicator project (I'll discuss this in a later post this summer). I also finished up my iPhone cultural usability study for my design class (based on the results, from a small sample size, we improved the efficiency of the interface for al cultural groups of interest and reduced the performance gap between cultures). Oh, and my first journal article (on the audio game) was preliminarily accepted for publication (I'm currently in the process of making the requested revision for publication).
And for those of you who haven't been following the news, Obama won the Democratic nomination which is good because I was supporting him for the nomination--I need to examine McCain and Obama's policies more before I decide between them as I have always liked McCain (as I pride myself in my moderate views) although I am very much against the Iraq war and have been for some time and am even more against warrant less wiretapping so those are two very large point against McCain who seems to have opted for a shift to the right in his desire for power.
So there's been a lot going on, and I've also been trying to get into better health. I am once again trying to be healthier, but now I've gone for a more workable system as I have not cut out 'convenience food' but am eating healthier convenience food (e.g. veggie burgers as opposed to cheap hamburgers; yogurt instead of candy as a dessert item; etc) and added more fruits and vegetables to my meals. In addition, I have bought a small stair stepping machine to use in the morning, bought a bike to ride on days it doesn’t rain (and is warm enough)--just rode for about 40 minutes this evening, and I am taking a daily multi-vitamin with apple cider vinegar diluted with water (supposedly apple cider vinegar helps the digestion/use of vitamins/minerals--although the health benefits of multivitamin pills in general are somewhat disputed based on an article that popped up in my Google News feed about a month ago).
More updates (including some to the other pages) are forthcoming, but until then feel free to flip through these unedited images of my graduation vacation (with my older brother--who finished his B.A., my younger brother--who finished high school, and my mother--who funded the trip).
And for those of you who haven't been following the news, Obama won the Democratic nomination which is good because I was supporting him for the nomination--I need to examine McCain and Obama's policies more before I decide between them as I have always liked McCain (as I pride myself in my moderate views) although I am very much against the Iraq war and have been for some time and am even more against warrant less wiretapping so those are two very large point against McCain who seems to have opted for a shift to the right in his desire for power.
So there's been a lot going on, and I've also been trying to get into better health. I am once again trying to be healthier, but now I've gone for a more workable system as I have not cut out 'convenience food' but am eating healthier convenience food (e.g. veggie burgers as opposed to cheap hamburgers; yogurt instead of candy as a dessert item; etc) and added more fruits and vegetables to my meals. In addition, I have bought a small stair stepping machine to use in the morning, bought a bike to ride on days it doesn’t rain (and is warm enough)--just rode for about 40 minutes this evening, and I am taking a daily multi-vitamin with apple cider vinegar diluted with water (supposedly apple cider vinegar helps the digestion/use of vitamins/minerals--although the health benefits of multivitamin pills in general are somewhat disputed based on an article that popped up in my Google News feed about a month ago).
More updates (including some to the other pages) are forthcoming, but until then feel free to flip through these unedited images of my graduation vacation (with my older brother--who finished his B.A., my younger brother--who finished high school, and my mother--who funded the trip).
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| Vacation 2008 - Cruise and Orlando |
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