User:MCB

MCB is on a lengthy wiki quasi-sabbatical due to health, family, and house-related issues, and hopes to return to more active editing and mopwork soon. Please send email for any urgent matters.

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

I am a retired attorney, IT consultant, writer, longtime UNIX geek, longtime Internet geek, former magazine editor, food & travel enthusiast, California native.

My Wikipedia interests mostly involve food, cooking, restaurants, travel and tourism, hotels, transportation (especially airlines/airports/aircraft), geography, history, and legal topics. I am a member of WikiProject Aviation and a number of its sub-projects, WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area, and helped restart WikiProject Food and Drink.

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Languages Wikipedia:Babel en This user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español. zh-1 該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。 该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。 Search user languages Cyrl-1 Д This user has a basic understanding of the Cyrillic script. Hebr-1 ש‎ This user has a basic understanding of the Hebrew alphabet. Hrkt-1 あ This user has a basic understanding of the Katakana or Hiragana. Hans-1 语 This user has a basic understanding of the Simplified Chinese characters. 这个用户认为汉字简化对汉字发展起了正面作用。 This user thinks that Simplified Chinese characters are a positive step in the development of Chinese characters.

I have retired as an 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.

I do have 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.

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