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[Trailhead?] Grasslind Industries
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Chagrinned Goat
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[Trailhead?] Grasslind Industries

This was posted on /x/. While there's not a lot of information yet, I thought you guys might want to have a look.

http://grasslind.com/

Everything seems pretty normal at first. A little shady business practices, the mysterious LJ (http://christine-ro.livejournal.com/), but then you get to the Future Projects page. You can't ignore that.

Also, the LJ links to a twitter. http://twitter.com/ChristineRobbin

I have so far failed to notice anything weird in the photos, but they have to be there for a reason. I'm going to look a little more.


I sent an eMail to Grasslind asking about employment a short while ago. I haven't received a response yet, but I'll keep checking, obviously. In the mean time . . . what do you guys think?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:19 pm
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phantomaz
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I just sent a mail to the address on the employment page.
I asked if they need a professional hand with their site since it has some "problems"...
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Scratch
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The Grasslind Industries logo looks suspiciously similar to a dong.

EDIT: Just realized how old this trailhead is. Christine_ro registered on LiveJournal last October. Her last tweet is also from last October. This probably explains the lack of a response from Grasslind.

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SilentNoise
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Scratch wrote:
The Grasslind Industries logo looks suspiciously similar to a dong.

EDIT: Just realized how old this trailhead is. Christine_ro registered on LiveJournal last October. Her last tweet is also from last October. This probably explains the lack of a response from Grasslind.


We should atleast give it a day for a reply

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Chagrinned Goat
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SilentNoise wrote:
Scratch wrote:
The Grasslind Industries logo looks suspiciously similar to a dong.

EDIT: Just realized how old this trailhead is. Christine_ro registered on LiveJournal last October. Her last tweet is also from last October. This probably explains the lack of a response from Grasslind.


We should atleast give it a day for a reply


That's what I was thinking. By "a short while" in my post, I meant like half an hour. While a lot of the stuff is old, if the creator hasn't completely abandoned the project, we may get a game out of this yet. *crosses fingers*

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eunria
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huiu8h01pTQ


take a close look lol. Rolling Eyes

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AncientMariner
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So, this is my first time actually trying an ARP, but I agree that this looks... suspicious to say the least. Do you think that the video Eunria found could be linking to HotDiggedyDemon in some way?



  • Notice that the grasshopper does a brief flash of static periodically.
  • Future Projects. 'Nough said.
  • On the 4th picture on the left on the bottom row, there's a Cafe with a visible name. I have hoping to use that to find the town, but no luck there.
  • Can anyone get a closer look at that statue on the 3rd row on the top?


Though, brief question about these games in general, how much collaboration goes on? Are we working separately or together?
[/list]

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eunria
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AncientMariner wrote:
So, this is my first time actually trying an ARP, but I agree that this looks... suspicious to say the least. Do you think that the video Eunria found could be linking to HotDiggedyDemon in some way?


Well, it must be linked, name of the ''video series'', the logo in it together with the link...
Also that guy sometimes drops 4chan references, wich makes sense why it was suddenly posted on /x/...
First time I saw it in a thread there it was just dumped in a ''post creepy websites one'' Correct me if I'm wrong and it waas posted before.

Well Ancient, I'm currently busy looking into something else, after that I'll take a close look at the pics and try to find something out.

It all depends on you, if you want to just lurk and do your thing or participate and exchange ideas with people.

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Chagrinned Goat
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eunria wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huiu8h01pTQ


Well, if the grasshoppers and the Grasslind Industries weren't enough to go on, that animation is by Max Gilardi - the guy the Grasslind website is registered to.

It was posted on /x/ last night that the site was registered in November of last year, and that Gilardi is in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Ancient: The Cafe is Cronin's Cafe, I think. According to Google, there is one in Lynn, MA. The two towns are pretty close.) They said that the EXIF indicated that the photos were taken in 2007, but otherwise there wasn't anything useful. Granted, the 2007 part isn't so useful, either, but it's something.

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eunria
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Chagrinned Goat wrote:
eunria wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huiu8h01pTQ


Well, if the grasshoppers and the Grasslind Industries weren't enough to go on, that animation is by Max Gilardi - the guy the Grasslind website is registered to.

It was posted on /x/ last night that the site was registered in November of last year, and that Gilardi is in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Ancient: The Cafe is Cronin's Cafe, I think. According to Google, there is one in Lynn, MA. The two towns are pretty close.) They said that the EXIF indicated that the photos were taken in 2007, but otherwise there wasn't anything useful. Granted, the 2007 part isn't so useful, either, but it's something.


I know cos i posted it in that thread last night and the day before lol. Thread 404 though when I was back so idk if anyone else sad something.
Also the pic with the ..orange thing, it says
BB Engineering Corporation
Red US TAT O..
?OR (or A) WOOD LA
B & B Engineering works with wood, their main office is in Wisconsin...
Don't think that matters though.

What I noticed though, there's just one episode of grashopperland,... either they just dropped it or it all has something to do with what's in the tower.
Wich would be lame.

Cronin's Cafe looks too short, look at the end of the first word and the second letter, they're bigger so probably L or H.

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Trillian
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AncientMariner wrote:
[*]Can anyone get a closer look at that statue on the 3rd row on the top?

I found some pictures here: http://www.gloucesterww2vetsmemorial.org/new_page_399.htm. It's a WWII memorial located in Gloucester MA.

ETA:
Chagrinned Goat wrote:
The Cafe is Cronin's Cafe, I think. According to Google, there is one in Lynn, MA
I had a look at it with StreetView and it looks like the one in the photos.

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AncientMariner
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Little bit annoyed that I didn't find the cafe when I searched for Cronin's Cafe, but when go down onto street view, I think it's pretty clear that's the place. From the picture, you can even tell that the photographer must've taken it from an overpass, and if you turn around on street view, there it is.

I don't think that's B&B, I'm pretty sure it's BB. This is BB's website: http://www.bbengineering.com/index.html

I did a little bit of digging here with some interesting results. First off, their site is a bit buggy, and just... off. The products look shoddy, but mainly, both of their phone numbers (different for some reason, check out the Contact Us page) connect directly to personal lines. Google Maps puts you at a farm as well. The little weather thing at the bottom is broken. Also, if you click Pay Now for PayPal on their Lunger Log Fishing Software, it tries to charge you $5 less. That and the software looks like I could've designed it in VB in about 5 minutes. They're located basically in Shelby, NC. Sort of tempted to drive out there.... It's also copyright 2007. I haven't e-mailed them yet.

I'm still looking for a BB that actually matches that logo, but with that many things that are off, can anyone at least look over it?

Also, how can y'all check the domain information, is there a site, or?

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journals

http://christine-ro.livejournal.com

anyone else tried to make sense of the entries?

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eunria
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Re: journals

Crescent wrote:
http://christine-ro.livejournal.com

anyone else tried to make sense of the entries?


Yeah I looked at Christine's lj again,.... I think I know what's going on lol.
-She's trapped
-Interests (1):
fuck yeah taco bell

Cartoon:
-guy wants taco bell, and they tell him he has to go to the tower.

So basically Chrisitine wanted TB got lured into the prime directory tower and is now trapped.
There hasn't been a new episode for months, and the sites are from 2007, so maybe this ''game''
was put on ice?
Did anyone who sent a job application get an answer?



@Ancient
I only looked for the full text BB Engineering Corporation so I didn't get that site in
my results.
Did you look at the custumor list? Some don't exist, and the most of the other websites look... horribly cheap.
They haven't released anything new since 2003. I don't know. Seems like you live in the area? They offer demo cds for
their stuff maybe you can get one? I doubt they would send it half around the world for me.

AncientMariner wrote:

Also, how can y'all check the domain information, is there a site, or?

Nothing interesting on that one....
Current Registrar: NAMESECURE.COM
Registrant:
Branch, Brian
BB Engineering
po box 607
polkville, NC 28136
US
Domain Name: BBENGINEERING.COM
Administrative Contact:
Branch, Brian sales@bbengineering.com
BB Engineering
po box 607
polkville, NC 28136
US
7044704041
Record expires on 21-Nov-2010.
Record created on 21-Nov-2000.
Database last updated on 4-Jul-2010 22:42:31 EDT.

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AncientMariner
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I live maybe an hour away. I've sent in an e-mail requesting a Demo CD, and we'll see if we get a response. I sort of feel like I'm trying to make something be there that just isn't, but there are so many fishy things with that site, that I can't help looking. Also, that Brian Branch does actually live at that address:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Brian+Branch+nc&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=pGe&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=o&pb=r&sa=X&ei=M2QxTIn0E8K78gaQw_DICw&ved=0CBcQ_wI

The phone number doesn't match either of the two provided though.

For some reason, I saw the Taco Bell and didn't connect it.

EDIT: God, I'm an idiot. We have:
http://www.enom.com/whois/default.aspx?DomainName=grasslind.com

We have the video made my Max Gilardi.

And we have Adam Ligrix. Adam Ligrix => Max Gilardi.

In addition, the town listed in the address is the same town that the monument, and Lynn is only half an hour away. Not sure why they took a picture in Lynn, but that's a question for tomorrow for me. I've also sent in a email to their employment people, and I tried to check out activist.com

Here's who they're registered to.

EDIT2: Has anyone used decrypting software on the pictures yet? I'm on a Mac....

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