Biosphere 3. Eight Day update No. Nothing has changed. Lot 11, on this snowy Saturday, is still accessible without snowshoes and the entire Snyder Building inside is well-lighted and even warmer than yesterday (noon temperature in the hall outside the door to the Political Science Department faculty offices was 74.3 degrees Fahrenheit = cozy!). Outside my office window a that time there was a total temporary whiteout. The outside temp. is now, at three-thirty p.m., a bone-chilling 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Not to worry: Cozy in our offices Dr. Reid and I are getting a lot of professor stuff accomplished. Meanwhile, out in Lot 11, meanwhile, the portable generator on wheels is chugging away, and getting something accomplished -- but what that something is, I have no clue. Is it there just to serve us, two humble hard-working and underpaid social science professors? I think not. It must be serving a higher purpose. Will it be there tomorrow, blowing smoke and shaking like a hound dog after a long swim on a cold day? Stay tuned!