The latest and final Pink Floyd album that will ever be released. And I'm not even ashamed to admit that while I sit here listening to just the first few songs for the first time.. I've had a tear or two repeatedly try to escape. Perhaps, I should let it. I was a little skeptic since wrights death in 2008, and that.. for the most part, all modern music feels vain, fabricated, and crushingly docile. So far, song 2 and song far are taking me back to a time that has long passed, and making me feel like I just picked up a Pink Floyd album for the first time. It's all music this far in without any singing.. unsure if there will be any vocals. I just had to put this out there while it was fresh. If you havent checked it out, I suggest you do.

 So if your bored tonight and have nothing better to do.. Here it is..

https://www.facebook.com/pages/FergusonSaint-Louis-Riot-Updates/893664343984762

and for the scanner feed

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/601/web

 The looting has already started, and shots have already been fired..

Edit: Just hearing over the scanner that groups with guns are located down the street from PD.. crazy. And a bunch of police cars have been supposedly vandalized.. as to be expected. Wonder how far this will go.

Edit: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/st-louis-county-police-scanner  Here is the St. Louis Scanner.. shots fired and rioting.

 There are so many opportunities to make money while thrifting, yard sale hunting, or simply snagging some good deals at your local pawn shops. On top of that, there are many various niche markets that are relatively easy to break into. Antiques, Furniture, Video Games, Books, E-scrapping, etc..

 I personally would stick to one niche and master it. Trying to flip everything you come across as a bargain may work for some, but I feel specialization increases focus and productivity. Within the next two weeks I'm going to try and break into flipping video games. Pawn shops around here sell xbox games for $1 a piece, xbox360 games for $3, and anything old school for a $1 and under.. I've already done plenty of research, getting lists worked up on what to look for and where the money is. i intend on building a collection along the way to either pass on to my children, self enjoyment during winter time, or to possibly sell off in the future. You can find old video games everywhere.. pawn shops, goodwill, flea markets, facebook trade groups, craigslist, ect.

 Then there is furniture.. Especially if you live close to a college town, people move out.. sell furniture for cheap.. people move in, buy it for a decent price. It goes beyond college towns but, just saying. You can find furniture at the goodwill on the regular and flea markets as well. Always the chance to score antiques as well. Bonus points if you can learn enough about sewing to reupholster rough furniture.. If you can learn to do that, you can buy practically anything, pick up some cheap clothe with a nice print and turn some real profits. Only set back, may take a little space.

 Guns. Takes a slightly higher amount of money to get started, and probably some good hunting and bargaining skills to get these at the right price point. But, if you can get the right connections and know how to sell.. you could turn some wide profit margins depending on what you buying.

 Antiques can be found at all the previous mentioned outlets, my only problem with antiques.. Such a wide spectrum to work with there. Not everything old is worth value and unless you can quick access to references or the time to learn your shit.. may be a little hard to break into. That said, it has one of the highest profit margins.. a lot of people who sell old stuff may not know the true value.. I would say choose a niche within this niche, like old toys or old signs.. but then your limited to what you can find in your immediate area (or most likely) and the goods may be there, or they might not.

 E-scrap. You guys know anything about scrapping gold out of electronics or even what to look for. Go to youtube, and look up "scrapping gold fingers".. about all there is to know.. or the most important anyways, there is more gold in some boards though besides the connectors. I think a lb. of these are going for $70-$75.. The best way to do this one if hit up any local bussinesses you have that may be updating systems.. colleges.. just whatever.. and inquire as to whether they have to pay to have their old computer tower/monitors taken off.. sometimes you can luck into a contract where you can take stuff off their hands for free as your going to "recycle them".. Takes some know how.. a solid presence and confidence in how you present yourself.. professionalism and such.. There is also silver, copper, brass , and rare earth metals that can be extracted. I dont recommend you purify the metals unless your up to speed on your chemistry.. otherwise, sell them off to someone else for the purification process on the gold and rare earth metals.

 Baseball cards arent what they used to be, but.. if you know what you look for.. goes for other sports cards as well. Not only that, Magic the Gathering cards is purchased in bulk as discount prices can be lucrative. And I'm learning that.. yu-gi-oh cards are valuable? Who would have known?

 Buying thrifted name brand clothes, shoes, and purses is big business for some folks who can ebay that stuff for some nice bank. Probably the easiest to find and buy at the right price, but its more about a lot of small profit margins unless you find some really damn nice deal.

 Idk just thought I'd throw these out there.. pretty much common sense but in case it hadnt crossed your mind. Here it is..

www.illusorystudios.com

  I really wouldnt be surprised if some of our members are on there.. You hear such similar terms here and there.. I play it from time to time for the community on there.. There are quite a few members, intelligent, fringe-minded, some dabble in drugs, others hack.. it really is a bright lot. And they seem to have this game in common. I suggest anyone give it a try. I've been playing on and off since 2004.. lol.. f anyone does join, put your name up here and I'll holler at ya in game.. maybe even help ya too.

 Foraging, an excellent useful and yet profitable skill that requires you to only identify and take what you want/need from nature. As I mentioned over in the Firewood thread, I'm an active forager who has found many ways to benifit and sometimes profit from going out in the woods and retrieving either something I need, or something someone else wants. Here I'll list a few examples of things I've foraged before, what I personally do with it, and then hand it over to you guys..


 Fruits and Berries - I specifically forage for Pawpaws and Persimmons when it comes to the fruits of nature. Most people are honestly unaware of both of these, and yet I can walk out into the woods and generally find then within close vicinity. Pawpaws are a soft fragrant fruit with a similar taste and consistency of Bananas. They were favored among Native Americans, and are even collected/harvested during the modern day to help with cancer treatments. They are used to help make stubborn cells more susceptible to chemo therapy, and aid the body in stopping cell mutation.

 Persimmons on the other hand, I'm not nearly as knowledgeable on, other than.. you mustn't eat or process them till they are fully ripe. Doing so otherwise, they act as a powerful laxative when not fully ripe and can cause severe stomach cramping. When ripe, however, they make a great preserve.. My fiance likes to process them into a fruit leather (like a fruit roll up, except natural and organic), and they taste an awful lot like apricots.. It really is delicious. As with most fruits, I'm certain they contain essential vitamins and nutrients.

 As far as berries go, Black Berries are the common sought after berry around here. Although, they can only be harvested during the summer time. This past year was a rough season for black berry pickers. The birds ate just about everything before anyone got a chance to pick. Around here, Black Berries sell for $25 a gallon. People wash them and then sprinkle a little sugar on them before eating, while others bake black berry pies or make Black berry Dumplings (Mmm mmm). I intend to harvest as much as possible next year with the intention of making some black berry wine or dare I say... moonshine.

 Also in this area is opossum grapes.. which are edible, so so I'm lead to believe.. But when I bought my old farmhouse, I later found that there was some old grape vines still a alive from years ago that produces large dark grapes. I'm unsure of the variety, but they are delicious.

Nuts - When it comes to nuts, there is a lot to pick from in the forest. Chestnuts, Hickory Nuts, Walnuts, etc. As for me, I tend to pick up all the Black Walnuts I can in my area. I store then in a dry place in feed sacks to cure for about a year. I have, in the past, used the green husks as a dye for ropes and wood stains. I don't forage a whole lot of nuts for one main reason.. my fiance is allergic to them. Not deathly bad, but bad enough and I dont do anything to infringe upon her health. Needless to say, Walnuts as well as the other nut varieties are often in high demand and easy to sell. Walnuts sell for between $80-$140 a truck load, but that depends on whether they are hulled and how bad the buyer wants to scam people. I trade/sell mine to the Mennonites who use it in their homemade candies and brownies, and usually trade for feed, flour, service work (they are excellent at small engine repair.. chainsaw, weedeater, ect).. all in all, I do pretty well.

 On a side note, I'll throw acorns into this lot as well. As an avid amateur trapper, I use acorns to bait my live squirrel traps (walnuts work too). I dont kill the squirrels.. usually catch and release, or I'll keep them up for a while with intentions of breeding and re-releasing but.. I always let them go. In a SHTF situation, it's comforting to know I could catch some squirrels, and where they come so use to the idea of me releasing them, they make no efforts to not get caught in my traps.

Kindling - I suppose this is only important to people who use firewood as their heating source. As mentioned in the other Firewood thread, I've recently taken to foraging Pine Cones are Kindling/Fire-starter and for profit. I can sell a feed sack full for $5 a sack, and can roughly pick up 6-7 sacks and hour... more possibly if I employ a new method (taking a rake and raking the cones up into a pile vs. constantly bending over to pick up a mess here and a mess there.. which was what I did and still managed 6 sacks in an hour). I've even heard of people using pine needles as part of their kindling, but.. I'll stick to foraging the cones.

 Besides pine cones, I make a habit to use any not rotten dead wood that is easily accessible.. I walk/explore the woods a lot and often I'll find big branches that have broken out of trees, or a tree that's fallen and has stayed leaning against another tree.. so as to not have rotted by laying on the ground. These are perfect examples of the type of firewood I try to claim.. this way I'm not purposely killing a live tree to heat my home. It's a morale sort of thing I suppose.

 Abandoned Animal Habitats - I've found 3 birds nest on the ground in the past 2 days alone.. Two small ones and one medium sized one. People will actually pay decent money for these sort of things as they use sprayed glue and incorporate them into primitive decor or art pieces.. possible other things, idk. I have never sold birds nest though I do know people do buy them. One thing I know for sure people buy is Bee Nests.. I've sold 2 of these in the past, one for $20, and one for $40.. Just be careful to make sure they are inactive.. By nests, I mean the big round grey nests that are often hanging from trees or on the ground. The ones I've found were on the ground, and I only attempted to get them because it was snowing and they were close enough to my house that I could make the run in doors before getting stung to death in a worse case scenario.. both were empty though. People also dip these or apply some sort of polyurethane, and preserve the structure for decor or what have you.

Botanicals - There are tons of Botanicals out there, that is properly foraged, can earn you some pretty nice cash. The ones I primarily go after are Ginseng and Bloodroot. Ginseng will net you anywhere from $150-$300 a lb dried to much more.. depending on whether you sell to someone who resells to the chinese market or you take that upon yourself. Matured and unique root specimens have been known to sell in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in China (specifically, old roots that resemble a human figure). I hunt for ginseng every year and continuously save my dried specimens with the intent of selling all at once here in a few years. Some people will actually take ginseng they find in the wild and transplant it elsewhere closer to home so it can age, seed, and cultivate in a larger patch as a long term investment vehicle. Keep in mind ginseng requires specific growing conditions, but if planted suitably.. well, just Google what an acre of ginseng will net you after 5-6 years..

 As for Bloodroot, it is primarily used as a dye and I sell it to a vendor for $50 a lb. But it is hard as hell to get a pound of it. Besides those main two, I also keep on the look out for Slippery Elm (Tree).. you can shave its bark, grind it into a powder and sell it for a good amount, but its been a few years since I've done this so I can't verify market prices... Hmm.. There's also Rattleweed (Black Cohosh) which is fairly easy to find. And I'm sure there are plenty others, these are just the primarily profitable/useful ones in my area.. to the best of my knowledge.

 Mushrooms - While some areas do have sought after edible mushrooms, the only ones I know are.. well, psychedelic. Liberty Caps and Laughing Gems can be found in season, easily 100ft or so from my house in any direction.. Liberty caps have a unique bell shape with a slight nipple.. brown cap that grows in fields, beside roads, ect.. but I've mainly found them in fields or the yard around my house. Laughing gems are orange, grow in clusters on deadwood and/or tree stumps.. you definitely want to go to multiple lengths to verify these if that's what your looking for.. some poisonous mushrooms that could be mistaken for these out there. I have found these to be very common,but that could be on a county to county basis. DO NOT EAT ANY SHROOMS THAT YOU ARE NOT 100% CERTAIN OF THEIR SPECIES!! Also, Shroomery.org is an excellent source for all your shroom hunting needs.

 Woods - Maybe not foraging exactly but thought I'd throw this in there. Sometimes finding large branches of certain wood types can be useful/profitable. Walnut and Persimmon in particular. Persimmon is actually a really hard wood sought after in the making of gold clubs. However, I mainly mean with the intended purpose of making knife handles, tool handles, homemade wooden carpenter mallet, homemade bow, drum sticks, guitar picks, ect..

 I'll revamp and update this more later.. just wanted to get a god foundation down. Not really everything I wanted to put in here, and will clean it up a bit. Suggestions are welcome.. I'd like to compile a collective guide to foraging in the forest and how it can be useful/profitable. Someone out there is bound to find this information either useful, or possibly.. inspiring.

 This is a crappy little game for IOS. It's nothing special, but I've wasted at least 20 mins a day on it for the past 6 months. People who manage to craft a good account, usually sell it or trade it off. The game makers don't really try to deter such transaction so...

 Main reason why I posted this was this if anyone from Sanctuary felt like joining, I started a guild on there called "N2Sanctuary", specifically for members on here.. You can bullshit, talk about whatever, I honestly dont care.. The only point to the guild is it is a mobile chat board where you can write members of your guild.. or practically.. members on here. And if your actually into playing, you get certain bonuses for having a certain number of members logging on each day that you can claim.. everyone, not just me.. and getting into a populated guild isnt hard, I just did this for shits and giggles really.

 So if you get on there and want to join, in your guild request just say your from Sanctuary and I'll let you in.

Edit: Accidentally posted this inthe wrong section.. Please move to Games People Play. Thanks.

 In case you haven't seen it, here it is.. I suppose it was leaked yesterday, and instead of crying about it, the studio went ahead and released it by saying "Hydra" had done the uploading. Who knows, who really cares.. But If your into the whole Marvel franchise, this definitely looks like it could be a better flick than the first one.. Don't get me wrong, the first was... "alright". But I think I like the direction their heading in..

 I only had the pleasure to browse Totse in it's final six months. My time there was ultimately too short lived, and I often wander what it would have been like to had been there for the longer haul. Even though my place in the community wasn't as deeply engraved as founding members or long-term patrons, I'm still around pursuing many of their very same ideas to this day.

 It's been a while since I have even thought of the members of Totse and their original screenames. Some changed, some did not.. A few of the good and/or crazy ones have passed away (a particular comrade whom I remember not making it back from a certain Night Ops trip). But there is still a fair amount of the old crew still around.. not my crew, I was never a full fledged member imo.

 Anyways, I've created this thread with the particular intent of finding one member whose posts and dissertations I really enjoyed reading, and figured it could be a launchpad for other members here to relocate or otherwise find information on some of their favorite posters from the past.

 Without further ado, Does anyone know whatever happened to Meta? I think i last spoke to him briefly on &Z, but even before that it had been years.. Just wasnt sure on what he was into nowadays, or if he was still alive for that matter.

 Edit: Btw probably worth mentioning that I was Strife and Coresant on Totse.. most of my discussion was pertained to the BI section (I was much younger and more radical than my present day self) If I had any rememberable threads from Totse, it was probably something to do with Night Ops, as I used to explore the neighborhood and post my stories when I made it back home.. some of my activities weren't exactly the most legal either. One particular story involved a hypothetical house where a man had passed away about 6 months prior due to an overdose. Since he had no family and a junk yard of wealth to plunder.. this hypothetical house became the inspiration of my many hypothetical works and activities, including experiments with using a drop house for shipping and a deceased persons address for hypothetical mail scams. We were all young once.. lol.. I've moved far and away from my old interest in BI, but someone might remember me. Though I doubt it.. Well that's enough about SWIM.