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== About == 
MCB is Michael C. Berch, born [[October 10]], [[1956]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], presently residing in [[Pleasanton, California|Pleasanton]], [[California]], in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]]. 

I am a retired [[attorney]], [[Information technology|IT]] [[consultant]], writer, longtime [[Unix|UNIX]] [[geek]], longtime [[Internet]] [[geek]], former [[magazine]] editor, [[food]] & [[travel]] enthusiast, California native.

My Wikipedia interests mostly involve [[food]], [[cooking]], [[restaurant]]s, [[travel]] and [[tourism]], [[hotel]]s, [[transportation]] (especially [[airline]]s/[[airport]]s/[[aircraft]]), [[geography]], [[history]], and [[law|legal]] topics. I am a member of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation|WikiProject Aviation]] and a number of its sub-projects, [[Wikipedia:WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area|WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area]], and helped restart [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink|WikiProject Food and Drink]]. 

[[User_talk:MCB|My Talk page]]

[[User:MCB/Todo|My to do list]]

[[Special:Contributions/MCB|My contributions page]]
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== Admin requests ==
I have retired as an [[WP:ADMIN|administrator]] on the English-language Wikipedia. I enjoyed my time as an admin but it was time to pass the baton to the new generation.

== Languages ==
I do have [[WP:BABEL|Babel boxes]] and [[ISO 15924]] boxes, but they're really not quite descriptive enough to be useful, especially at the lower ability levels (like mine). Basically, I'm a native English speaker, not fluent in any other language, but I can get along reasonably well in reading/writing French (and occasionally edit the fr Wikipedia); I can make fairly decent sense out of written Spanish; I have about a semester each of Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew, and am presently studying Mandarin Chinese at a beginning level, using [[simplified Chinese characters]].

==Articles I created==
[[Aaron Durley]] •
[[ALM Flight 980]] •
[[Anaheim Ice]] • 
[[Arthur Bryant's]] •
[[Cape Town Treaty]] • 
[[Chuck steak]] • 
[[Court of Historical Review]] • 
[[Cruz Reynoso]] • 
[[Darius Ogden Mills]] • 
[[Dogpatch, San Francisco, California]] • 
[[Erebus: The Aftermath]] •
[[Financier (pastry)]] • 
[[Fresh Choice]] •
[[Gougère]] •
[[Hamilton Camp]] • 
[[Hôtel Lutetia]] • 
[[Karen Dior]] • 
[[Kenny Buttrey]] • 
[[Lacey Fosburgh]] • 
[[Mailgram]] • 
[[Mussel Rock]] • 
[[North American Meat Processors Association]] • 
[[ORBIS International]] • 
[[Oxtail]] • 
[[Pleasanton Weekly]] • 
[[Polidor]] •
[[Ray Kidder]] • 
[[Swiss steak]] •
[[Tomales Bay State Park]] •
[[Tombstone (advertising)]] •
[[Veeraswamy]]  


== Travel ==
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