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I don't think anyone else mentioned this.

The fact that the PM has printouts of the thread in the Swedish flashback forum, and has circled some of the posts blue/red might indicate that the PM (or at least one of them, if we are to believe there are several as An0n suggested) can read and understand Swedish. This would further strengthen the theory that the PM (or one of them) is actually from Sweden.

Or maybe he used babelfish or whatever...

[EnochHeath]

[Rekidk]

Save adorable cat. Save planet.

Doesn't this sound like MeiGeist?

"Save the cat. Save the world."

XD

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That's all.

I'm still not sold on the Jeremy connection, other than him acknowledging that we are stalking him.

[ncfriend]

been thinking about the computer background on all this... isnt "collect package" some kind of Linux term?

[Cozzo]

Looking closer at the peacock, there is what appears to be the figure of a person in the part of its tail which arches upwards, and, roughly going by its detail, looks like something of ancient Asian or Hindu religions/symbols (and, as was said before, the peacock is affiliated with both).



Upon googling "Peacock Asian Religion", you can find a .pdf file which describes the Peacock Cult and many myths and related Asian and Hindu gods to the peacock, of all of which I researched and found nothing which resembles this peacock. It looks as though it was printed/done on the computer and not hand-drawn, but I can't be sure. All we know of it is that it is very sacred in Asia, particularly in Hinduism, and that it is a symbol in dreams of cockiness.

Also, the chorus of the Britney Spears song playing in the background is:

Sometimes I run
Sometimes I hide
Sometimes I'm scared of you
But all I really want is to hold you tight
Treat you right
Be with you day and night
Baby all I need is time

Which might possibly be a clue.

ncfriend: You're right. Maybe searching each of the terms stated in the beginning will lead to something. Searching "collect package" will bring up many results, the first of which a .pdf file describing some complicated stuff about "collecting packages" in regards to syntax. (Also see http://www.nonius.com/KappaCCD/manuals/collect/happy/index.html.)

[Darkstar.de]

The "data recovery tool" is GNU ddrescue from the GNU project: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

The image is the mascot/logo of GNU

Also, this whole "save planet" speech reminds me of "Heroes": Save the Cheerleader, save the world. Could be irrelevant (but I just watched the show some days ago so it's still fresh in my mind

--Darkstar

[Darkstar.de]

Btw, I think I can supply some more information about the TRINSTOD pdf which was the result of the original googlewhack.
Thihs is pretty techy, and most people who didn't study CS or are otherwise deeply into computer (and especially mainframe-) knowledge wouldn't know what to make of this pdf anyway.

The pdf is about a software which was used to monitor performance (and find performance problems) on large IBM mainframes (S/390), running a specific operating system (in this case MVS).

This software seemingly consists of various parts. The PDF which contains the TRINSTOD string is about the part called "MONITOR for CICS", which is part of a suite of programs called "Performance Works".

The PDF is from around 2000 (it says (C) 2000 in various places), so the company ("Landmark"), which produced this piece of software, is probably not in business anymore. Furthermore, anyone who is not an S/390 MVS administrator understands only 0,1% of what is written in there. Thats why I highly doubt that it has anything to do with the ARG that's probably going on there. It's probably just lead us to the whole google-whacking idea. I suppose it might be possible that the PM wants us to find a different google whack from the little information he gives us.

--Darkstar

[Darkstar.de]

(I really think I should register so that I can edit my posts...)

Another thing: The TRINSTOD string itself in said PDF is just a symbolic name for a variable. It seems that in MVS (or in the software), these symbolic names can only be 8 chars long. From what I understand, this name is simply a short name for "normalized interval start time":

TR stands for the data structure where this variable is defined (the so called "TR record", whatever that is)

IN probably stands for "interval"

S stands for "start" (the next variable is TRINETOD and stands for "normalized interval END time")

and TOD stands for "Time Of Day", meaning it's a date/time datatype

..so much for this. However, in the case of the ARG, the string TRINSTOD might have acquired a different (important?) meaning

--Darkstar

[Klauser]

"I suppose it might be possible that the PM wants us to find a different google whack from the little information he gives us. "

I think you are spot on with this.

[EnochHeath]

[Klauser]

[EnochHeath]

[schoen]

I've been thinking along the same lines as EnochHeath.

Notice that CPSACSP can make a bunch of palindromes (spelled the same backwards and forwards) when rearranged. Dunno if it means anything, but thought it was interesting.

[Dark-Star]

Okay, now that I have registered, here's another idea that just popped up in my mind:

The whole "Collect package. Save cat. Save planet." thing could be a reference to a movie/computer game/song. Like a summary. Either real or in a slightly ironical/idealized way (if you know what I mean)

I'm afraid I couldn't find any game/movie/song which matched, though. Maybe it's simply too late for heavy thinking. I'll go to sleep now

--Darkstar

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