User talk:Bordeauxdave

Hello everybody. (Or will it be: is anybody there?)

Anyway -- big day for me, my first wikipedia edit -- I egotistically added myself and my brother to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berkeley_High_School_%28Berkeley,_California%29_people#Scientists_and_inventors.

We'll see what, if anything, I contribute in the future. To paraphrase Mao, "one small step does not always lead to a long march".

June 2011
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