User:Mako098765.html



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.

Current status

Not so much daily wiki-ing for the forseeable future.

This user is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.

About me

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 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 LPs and 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 novels that I am currently incapable of reading.

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

Editing philosophy

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

• Current number of edits via Kate's tool, milestones: 1000

Mostly me

• Oskar Fischinger (still in progress...)

Dispute Resolution

• Vampire watermelon - I've looked up documents establishing this belief; find them here.

Things

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga (talk)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics (talk)
• Wikipedia: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 {{-}}, which is equivalent to <br style="clear:both" />.

Quotations

• "We — Americans, writers, American writers — seem often to be a tribe of mavericks dreaming of consensus." - A.O. Scott