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Glaukopis · Kilroy Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 1

[Trailhead?] The Abandoned Windmill

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:53 pm

labfly

this intrigues me... digging deeper. Cool

clicking around the front page and you will find:

an email > pickmanSPLATtheabandonedwindmill.com

a very interesting 404 page http://www.theabandonedwindmill.com/links.html

twitter > http://twitter.com/#!/tpickman

blog entries about this 20 something guy who has moved into a creepy windmill (many misspelled words popping out at me from first entry)

monde > mind
ude > use
thatt > that
hi > he
othwr > other
sine > sign

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:33 pm

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renji5471 · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Feb 2011 Posts: 3

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:58 pm

bluesylvia

Some other misspellings:
From the first page:
uawning = yawning

From the third page (windmill.html) I'm not sure if these are typos or are on purpose:
"Studio on he first floor" = "studio on the first floor"
"The last could hundred yards" = "the last good hundred yards"
"my cheat little sedan" = "my cheap little sedan"
"and going to have to wait" = "are going to have to wait"
They seem like simple typos to me, but there aren't typos in the other entries as far as I noticed so they stand out.

There are a lot of links on the home page (about, contact, portfolio, breakup [this is the journal], links, link to twitter account, and "x"), but a lot of them just send us to the mysterious 404 link. Guess Mr. Pickman needs to finish up his site still.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:41 pm

labfly

i believe the typos will def lead us somewhere. the last line on the first pg of blog entries

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:46 pm

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renji5471 · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Feb 2011 Posts: 3

I'll try to see if I can figure out anything later also. I'll post everything I find.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:17 pm

CarnageBlack

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:54 pm

bluesylvia

Just looked back at windmill.html and the words have changed. Everything has been corrected. I'm thinking they all were unintended errors Wink

Odd coincidence though, considering what CarnageBlack just found!

The misspellings on the first page are still there though... except ude/use, which has also been corrected. So I think we need to focus on:
monde -- mind
uawning -- yawning
thatt -- that
hi -- he
othwr -- other
sine -- sign

**Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:39 pm

Jezebel the Nun · Boot Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Bay Area

404 message

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:39 am

CarnageBlack

"He could cheat and" fix the typos. lol

I'll check the HTML in a sec. That could be the "below" it was talking about.

<edit> The HTML was simple and didn't include anything of interest, at all.

As for the typos, I ROTed them all. Nothing from ROT1-ROT47.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:07 am

renji5471 · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Feb 2011 Posts: 3

I ran a few of the words through google translate and "monde" means world and "sine" means their. Not sure if those are just coincidence or not.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:34 am

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**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:35 am

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nice this makes it much easier for me since I just came across this.Kudos

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:00 am

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enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

Certainly the name, but also the rather creepy drawing of the bird in the sink, brings to mind Lovecraft's "Pickmans Model".

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:06 am

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**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:20 am