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: ''The excessive enumeration is fully intentional; it was originally chosen in a bout of sarcasm.''
: ''So what's a [[mako]] anyway? I dunno. It's definitely pronounced mākō, though.''
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==Current status==
Not so much daily wiki-ing for the forseeable future.
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==About me==
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I graduated from [[UC Berkeley]] with a degree in [[Electrical Engineering]] & [[Computer Science]] ([[EECS]]).  My hometown is [[Castro Valley, CA]].

I work with an [[nuclear physics]] group (sorta like [[particle physics]]) at [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]. We handle the [[trigger (particle physics)|trigger]] for the STAR experiment at the [[Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider]].

I have scattered interests. During my first year of college, I wasted my time playing computer games. I became a sort of [[manga]] fanatic over the second year. Over those two years I also built up a pile of [[Gramophone record|LP]]s and [[Super 8 mm film|Super8]] equipment. My third-year binge was old ([[1950s]]-era) electrical theory books, which are too cheap to resist. I'm also acquiring manga and [[light novel]]s that I am currently capable of reading very, very slowly.

I'm also somewhat of a purist (or elitist). My tastes run toward old movies (the "masters"), and I prefer [[jazz]] and [[European classical music|classical]]. There's plenty of other stuff I also appreciate, though.

==Editing philosophy==
<br clear="all" />{{Template:MiniAWFP}}
Everybody else seems to have one of these sections, so I guess I'll have one too.

My goal is to avoid becoming addicted to Wikipedia while managing to contribute to the effort.  To this end I correct grammar and spelling whenever I come across errors in casual browsing.  If I find a topic which I know about and which seems neglected, I try to rework and add to it.  Or I'll put it into my watchlist and hope I have time to work on it later.

But I do find myself spending adverse amounts of time here.

==Contributions==
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Mako098765&dbname=enwiki Current number of edits via Kate's tool], milestones: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bipolar_junction_transistor&diff=prev&oldid=36183539 1000]

===Mostly me===
*[[Oskar Fischinger]] (still in progress...)

===Dispute Resolution===
* [[Vampire watermelon]] - I've looked up documents establishing this belief; find them [http://satori.freeshell.org/projects/vampire/watermelon.html here].

==Things==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga]] ([[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga|talk]])
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics]] ([[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics|talk]])
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics]] ([[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electronics|talk]])
*[[Wikipedia:Cleanup]]
*[[Wikipedia:Typo]]
*[[Wikipedia:Pages needing attention]]
*[[:Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit]]
*[[Wikipedia:Cite_your_sources]]
*[[Wikipedia:Footnotes]]

===To do===
*work on [[mass in special relativity]], [[doping (semiconductors)]], [[depletion region]]
*posit moving [[diode]] stuff into [[semiconductor diode]]
*work on articles about composers/jazz musicians/?: [[big band]], [[Annie Ross]], [[Lambert, Hendricks & Ross]], [[jazz combo]]
*discography pages
*stubs: [[Chua's circuit]], [[calorimeter (particle physics)]]
*research: [[Fritz Reiner]], [[Point Counter Point]]

===To remember===
*To fix bad template spacing/formatting, use <nowiki>{{-}}, which is equivalent to <br style="clear:both" /></nowiki>.

===Quotations===
*"We — Americans, writers, American writers — seem often to be a tribe of mavericks dreaming of consensus." - [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/review/scott-essay.html?pagewanted=all A.O. Scott]

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