I'm Andrew Friedman. Surprisingly, this paragraph is about me. I'm now a fifth year Astronomy Ph.D. student at Harvard University, having for some reason double majored in Physics and Astrophysics at UC Berkeley (Go Bears!). I'm originally from San Diego, but slowly warming to glacial Cambridge. In my day job here, I study cosmology, exploding stars, and the expansion of the universe at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. In the spirit of procrastination, I'm also the editor in chief of the Harvard Satyrical Press, Harvard's official graduate comedy magazine. (www.harvardsp.com). If things turn out as planned, I'll soon be teaching astronomy and writing screenplays, in space. A.S.F. September 2008 (...MORE)