Adam Hossein Fuller is an Iranian-American living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a software engineer, a husband, a father of two kids, and an insignificant piece of lint in the eyes of his cat. In the O.E.D. under "slackademic" is a picture of him and his four degrees: an M.A. in creative writing and an M.S. in planetary science, both from Johns Hopkins University; a B.S. in astrophysics from Columbia University; and a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.