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Grant W. Trent

@grantwtrent.bsky.social

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Interested in all things nuclear or high voltage — our attendant histories of research and engineering. Industrially hygienic. All posts here do not represent my employer.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 22m

Well, I mean I've put plenty of these up in climate controlled spaces, so thoughts about unusually high temperatures never occurred.

I'm not sure I can estimate how hot the ceiling of a generator shed gets, also never considered.

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 26m

Do we have any thoughts about long term reliability in the case one of these passive infrared detectors are used to switch lights inside the housing containing a large diesel engine and generator set?
I've never encountered anything other than very simple switches.
These are more of an office thing?

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 35m

Oh, yeah. I know that takes some time. :/

Sometimes I still get a little upset when, after experience, I consider the fairly short time left with these guys.

It's an especially tough marker of time because they are good pals.

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 40m

The little one nearly tumbled into an open wetwell.

It was terrifying, they can't usually swim. No idea how we could have solved that problem fast except that it's all clean water for now with rainfall infiltrating a cut-off part of the system where houses don't exist, yet.

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 43m

They are, it's hard to believe but apparently a lot of real good animals pass through animal
control here, too.

It's a service I'm very glad we have - I've called them on duty a few times for pets in peculiar places.
This was the first time it ever seemed expedient enough to do something ourselves.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 54m

Popped corn always proves interesting.

Titan the Boston terrier and Unknown French Bulldog mistaking my hand for the one holding popcorn.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1h

So fingers crossed for a microchip I guess?
A person I trust has expressed interest, worst case and she has experience.
Dog seems pretty well behaved, reports say the smaller, younger one appears to know the drill about inside/outside.

There must be some people that know them.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 2h

Yup.
That's too many dogs...

Olive and Titan the Boston terriers meeting Unknown French Bulldog.

Currently searching for the owner(s).
Heading to our vet in the morning.

Unknown French Bulldog, part of a pair found without collars enthusiastically exploring a new neighborhood under construction off Votaw Rd. near Apopka/Wekiwa. Possibly ran from a neighborhood called Rolling Oaks.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty much.

They were just out having an adventure.
They sort of lingered in area for some 30min, exploring but unsure how to get out because as a new neighborhood under construction it was mostly fenced in to separate a lower lying wetland/environmental easement and they weren't turning around.

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 6h

What an awful thing to have happen this morning.
They definitely should have been hanging out inside somewhere.
It's hard to imagine someone isn't all ready or soon going to be looking for them.

Black French Bulldog in the passenger seat.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 7h

Lucky, they were so distracted by each other they didn't put much effort as usual into hiding from me.

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 7h

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 10h

A colleague secured them at home for now, but on a screened in porch so I'm a little nervous about that and some indication they might mean to keep the little one.

I aim to get them checked for a chip this evening. They just need to make it a few hours without escaping and running off again. :/

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 10h

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no, stray French bulldogs running loose on a housing development construction site was unexpected today.

No collars and no clear indication of where they came from. :(

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 23h

"Hey, you can turn that light out until morning."

Olive the Boston terrier, trying to fall asleep but still being disrupted by people this late at night.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

lol Grokipedia science articles are literally just word-for-word copies of Wikipedia

Elon Musk: Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live.

Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo.
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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 23h

Well, damn. :/

A loose sticker, on the floor.
Reads "Missing tag - Do not remove."

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1d

I searched for a picture of "Titan" and among many good dog snapshots it delivered this.

A Titan pickup truck with a Florida plate[we only use one] and various stickers in a hardware store parking lot circa 2020.
A CAT sticker, American flag stylized Punisher, Make America Great Again and "The South Was Right" with Confederate flag. :P

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1d

Huh, a shiv museum. :/

A small display case holding various "Weapons and contraband seized from jail inmates by Sheriff's Deputies."

Two horse mounted Sheriff's deputies patrolling a devastated stretch of road near the coast, somewhere presumably in Mississippi - a film stamped date of October 10, 2005.

A hurricane[Katrina] has scoured this landscape.

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1d

I think people generally find them aesthetically among the more spooky biting animals but the ones I just can't tolerate are ticks. 😖

We had one bad season when I was a kid and then I spent a summer wandering the woods of NoVA - ticks, ticks are the worst critter.

Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1d

I was also distracted by a cute but hungry little leech I picked up with the more interesting detritus because I had to show it to my colleague.
I often get to serve as someone's first conduit to meeting a new critter so totally forgot about taking a picture.

Unsure how they felt about the leech. 🤔

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1d

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I wasn't aware it was an option.

This was found discarded with other bric-a-brac in a campsite where some people taking drugs had been living earlier in the summer, presumably evicted. :/

It didn't occur to me at the time to look around for any conspicuosly shiny foliage.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, Leafshine.
New and Improved! Scent-Free :D
*Highly Flammable - Shine Leaves Twice Monthly - Not for use on hairy leaves.

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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 1d