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AJ Batac

AJ Batac

15 years on the web. Creating websites/helping others create them. Sometimes I blog here: http://allanjosephbatac.com/blog
Sears Tower unveils glass balconies on Skydeck - http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos...
Sears Tower unveils glass balconies on Skydeck
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"Participants to the sneak preview of 'The Ledge,' stand on the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will open to public on Thursday." - AJ Batac via Bookmarklet
awesome - Mohomed Abdullahi
I think I'd throw up. - Tim Hoeck
I'm getting dizzy just looking at it - Bwana
couldn't do it. - holly
I'd soil myself! - ArtemKo
I'd do it! - AJ Batac
Not - a - chance - martha
I'd do a poopoo in my pants but I would do it... - Rasmus Lauridsen
maybe it is a good way to saved suffering from acrophobia :D - nursel
very interesting and scary at the same time - tinym dot com
Good stuff. Also: try being on the engineering team at shipping port and having to climb all over 100m cranes (did in 2006). You'll grow an extra pair - LANjackal
i sweat just thinking about it - Felicia Yue
I'll just stand over here...not on the ledge thanks though! hahaha - *Tiffany Diamond*
Hehe I don;'t have a problem with heights, but a glass floor really takes things over the limit. - Roberto Bonini
Man that looks amazing! - Parvez Halim
No way in hell I'd go out there. - Jason Huebel
me neither. Sky Tower in Auckland has glass floors and i about peed myself up there. - Dead Silence
no - Caroline
Awesome!! - Alix Whitmire ☂
I think I'd go out on it. Maybe. Looks pretty awesome. Love seeing the little girl with no fear. Little kids would zip around fearlessly in jet packs if we had em. - Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
I think I would die if I stepped out on that, but I would try anyway. - Rahsheen ™
Bear with me a moment while I attempt to retrieve my scrotum from my abdominal cavity... - Mark Jepsen
This is so awesome. I would kill to have something like that in Montreal - Robert D'Alesio
The Eureka tower in Melbourne has this, but this looks a lot better. There's huge joins in the glass: http://www.eurekaskydeck.com.au/the-edg... - Larry Hudson
If I want to fly or levitate I'll expose myself to cosmic radiation like anyone else - Sean Reiser
Yikes. Very cool. - Craig Bailey
Just don't throw any stones. - CW™
I get goosebumps just looking at the pictures. This looks like fun. - mike fabio
Amazing. - Ryo
Bad idea... - Outsanity
foolish - Melanie Reed
You probably couldn't get me to go further than the 5th floor, let alone, the 103rd floor, plus out on a glass floor hanging over the city. Sorry Mr Wonka, but I'll take the stairs. - Tim Young
I hope they keep a cleaning crew or a mop handy. - George Brickner
*Gulp* I doubt I'd last even 2 minutes standing on that... - Tyson Key
I hope it will hold. Time will tell - Brandon
very brave kids. I crapped my pants just looking at it. - Cassidy
Downtown Vancouver, BC
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...are you going to look at the BSG/Farscape shoot locations while you are there? Some details here http://13thcolony.wordpress.com/2008... and lots of other places :) - WorldofHiglet
bsg shooting? i'll try. thanks woh! - AJ Batac
They aren't shooting now, but they did quite a lot of location work in and around Vancouver :) - WorldofHiglet
I miss Vancouver so much! I'm long overdue for a visit up there. As much as I love the Bay Area, if I have an opportunity to live in Vancouver, I'd be outta here so fast the vacuum suck would move all my stuff up there with me! :-) - vicster
*homesick* - Micah Wittman
vicster, if you ever decide you want to change places, let me know. I'd leave Vancouver for the Bay Area in a hot second. - Cecily
AJ, are you checking out the Jazz Festival while you're here? - Andrew C
Dear Vancouver FriendFeeders, I will be there for 5 days. What awesome places, restaurants do you recommend? :-)
no one here from BC? :( - AJ Batac
Cecily and WorldofHiglet are both in BC, I think. - Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle. Paging Cecily and WorldofHiglet. Please proceed to FriendFeed immediately. :D - AJ Batac
Have you never been there? If not, then you definitely need to visit Stanley Park, the aquarium, Lonsdale Quay, Granville Island, and spend some time on a beach or two. As for restaurants, being as I don't live there I don't know the latest and greatest, however if you like Sushi, you have to get some while you're there. - Kenton
Kenton, thanks. I've been there before 3 years ago. But it was just for a 3 hour stopover and I was dead tired + jet lagged. Now, I have enough time to visit all the places you've suggested. :) - AJ Batac
go to the Capilano Suspension Bridge - http://www.capbridge.com - if you have 5 days and transportation, you might consider taking a short drive up to Whistler - lots of cool stuff to do up there, including the ZipTrek: http://www.ziptrek.com - Nathan Chase
Forgot about the bridge. Also, if you have a car and like to look at amazing architecture and outrageous houses, drive through the British Properties and other areas of North Van that are hanging over the ocean. - Kenton
Holy cwap! Vertigo. :) Ziptrek looks like a lot of fun! - AJ Batac
Hey AJ, I'm in Whistler! (work for Tourism Whistler actually) Here's a taste of what to do in the summer. http://www.whistler.com/activit... Let me know when you're coming and we can go for a coffee/beer. If you're into art there is a great exhibit going on in Vancouver http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exh... - Andrew Smith
AJ, this is me on the ZipTrek: http://vids.myspace.com/index... - Nathan Chase
Andrew, nice! Will try Whistler, hope it's not too far. ;-) Nathan, WEEEEE!!! Love that video... FUN! - AJ Batac
Sorry I missed this. I'm guessing you've been here and gone by now. - Cecily
Anti-paparazzi device flashes lewd photographers right back - http://dvice.com/archive...
Anti-paparazzi device flashes lewd photographers right back
"Whether you're camera shy or too famous to look bad in a photo, Adam Harvey's flashy anti-paparazzi purse will return fire at snooping cameras (and blind anyone around you to boot). The device is equipped with a photo cell that — once it detects a bright, sudden flash — will trigger an LED-controlling circuit to let off a burst of light of its own. The result? A good majority of the owner of the purse will be obscured by a flash, and the photo will be useless. Obviously, this works best at night." - AJ Batac via Bookmarklet
You could easily avoid the whole problem by just not using flash, or using a low ISO/high f-stop/short shutter speed to make the flash overpower the LEDs. - Gabe
World's Angriest Cat - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
World's Angriest Cat
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That is one ANGRY CAT! Doesn't want to be called BURGER. LOL - AJ Batac
Probably hates icanhaz... - AJ Batac
Poor kitteh - Alex Scoble
You know, when someone says angry cat, you might be inclined to dismiss it. But this is one ANGRY CAT! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I think "angry" is an understatement in this case. - AJ Batac
This video still brings the dogs running looking for a fight - EARL (Born in the USA)
OMG. My cats just freaked the hell out when I played this. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
...angered, angry, boiling, incensed, inflamed, infuriated, irate, livid, mad, upset, aggravated, exasperated, fuming, pushed too far, riled... what else? - AJ Batac
Hot and bothered - Kamilah Gill via email
ok my neighbours are up. - vijay
thats right!!, no messing with this one. - gtp19
aw, poor thing! Sure got my cats' attention, though. - vicster
Awe! The fact that the lady is video taping it is sick. What a bitch. - Matt
I don't think she's necessarily a bitch. I think the cat's just not right in the head. Not much anybody can do about that. I just finally got a chance to actually look at it. I could only see gmail updates about it on my simple old flip phone. - Kamilah Gill
I think she was showing something the cat really hates - AJ Batac via iPod
Yikes. Poor thing. - Rick Cogley
It’s Friday. Play some drums…. HTML5 style - http://ajaxian.com/archive...
It’s Friday. Play some drums…. HTML5 style
Let's have a contest on FriendFeed. We can share the URLs! :D - Meryn Stol
http://twitpic.com/96x5u - Pregnant back flip... Don't try this at home or anywhere!
http://twitpic.com/96x5u - Pregnant back flip... Don't try this at home or anywhere!
We Didn't Start The Fire - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
We Didn't Start The Fire
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Cool video. Great song. - Parvez Halim
the best of Jackass part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
the best of Jackass part 1
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Face plant - Karma - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Face plant - Karma
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Instant karma or faked? - AJ Batac
"Nick Cage wasn't a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in Armageddon. Shia LaBeouf wasn't a big movie star before he did Transformers - and then he exploded. Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers." -- Michael Bay
:P - martha
Ben Affleck was the BOMB on Phantoms! - CW™
I digress about Nic Cage, and to a lesser extent Aflack; their careers as actors ended in Michael Bay films. Just lookat their work before and after - RAPatton via iPhone
Shia was digging it deep in the Disney movie Holes. - CW™
...fair-enough! Michael Bay = star maker... laughably. - .LAG liked that
He is total crap. - Zach Landes
Who needs scriptwriters when you have ILM? - AJ Batac
Nobody WANTED to know Ben Affleck after Pearl Harbor. - tehKenny
AFFLECK WAS THE BOMB IN PHANTOMS, YO - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Lets see.. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Transformers (2007), The Island (2005), The Lionel Richie Collection (2003) (V) (video "Do It to Me"), Bad Boys II (2003), Pearl Harbor, Armageddon (1998/I), The Rock (1996), Bad Boys (1995) Now how many of those are real star making movies? - CW™
Full quote: ""Nick Cage wasn't a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in 'Armageddon.' Shia LaBeouf wasn't a big movie star before he did 'Transformers' -- and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from 'Bad Boys', nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers," he says. "I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films." - AJ Batac
Yeah. Bad luck. - dkb
you're to blame for the scourge of Cage? Why do the deserving never get the suffering they should :P - alphaxion
http://twitpic.com/964mk - Cat vs Corn... OM NOM NOM
http://twitpic.com/964mk - Cat vs Corn... OM NOM NOM
x.x *dies* - Caroline
cute :) too, cute - martha
how the heck am I going to get any work done if you keep finding this stuff Bwana!! :) - Mike Taylor
"YOU EAT CORN AND CORN COMES OUT" - Rishabh Mishra (p248)
lol - Caroline
Monkey-Ed Movie: Planet of the Humans - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Monkey-Ed Movie: Planet of the Humans
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Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog - http://www.beastpieces.com/2009...
Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog
Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog
Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog
"The Wall. Its up- in all its magical glory. So special, so tasty." - AJ Batac via Bookmarklet
How To Have Casual Sex - http://current.com/items...
How To Have Casual Sex
CAPS LOCK HAS A NEW NAME - http://twitpic.com/8z4zf
CAPS LOCK HAS A NEW NAME
RIP Billy - AJ Batac via Bookmarklet
In honor of Billy Mays. - Mike Reynolds
http://twitpic.com/92tan - That must have hurt real bad
http://twitpic.com/92tan - That must have hurt real bad
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
OUCH! - AJ Batac
It hurts, and yet I can't stop watching... - Marty
You ladies have no idea.... - Mohomed Abdullahi
That looks life changing right there. Major ow. - Josh Haley
It's called natural selection - Don Bonaddio
*heebie jeebies* - Stephen Mack
Must. Stop. Watching. Gah. - Victor Ganata
I suggest a new meme: DAMN YOU AJ = DYAJ! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Phew, the image went away. - Stephen Mack
WHAT HAPPENED???? - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
You took it down? - Josh Haley
I think Twitpic took it down for some reason. :( - AJ Batac
dang, that sux, I was enjoying the FF thread :( - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ via IM
How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal
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Move. Closer. - Slippy 2.0
A new book on the world's worst tattoos reveals inks that stink - http://www.thelondonpaper.com/thelond...
A new book on the world's worst tattoos reveals inks that stink
"WITNESSING a particularly bad tattoo on a stranger is one thing, but dating someone with one... well, that’s a new deal breaker altogether. New York author Aviva Yael has compiled a book on the world’s worst tattoos, No Regrets: The Best, Worst & Most, after chatting with friends about the idea. Article Links * Everything Is Annoying blog thelondonpaper is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Related Articles * The best geeky tattoos on the web * Peaches Geldof poses in sexy underwear and shows off her tattoos Share this Article Bookmark * Facebook * Digg * Delicious * ShareThis (What are these?) How interesting was this article? Recommend (11) 11 people have recommended this article * About social bookmarking They spoke of the worst dates they had survived, when one mentioned a girl he had dated who had terrible tattoos, and his intolerance of them. Before they knew it, Yael, who writes a blog "Everything Is Annoying", was up to her neck in markings that would have the talented crew at hit TV show Miami Ink weeping in disbelief." - AJ Batac via Bookmarklet
friend of mine got a tattoo on her hand that was botched. So she had it covered up with a tattoo of a marijuana leaf. so funny. - anna
Hearing my Chinese-national friends talk about bad Asian language tattoos makes me think: just never have it done. Seriously. Even if you think you know what it is, it's different in the language. Don't do it unless you speak the language...fluently. - anna
If i had a $ for every non-chinese-speaking-or-literate person explain to me painstakingly what a character meant that they had tattoo'ed on their back. So earnest! So misguided! - anna
Tattoos are funny to me. Some people I don't blink an eye and others I'm like, "You look like you just got out of jail." Everyone knows never to ask me what I think of a proposed tattoo, because chances are I'll say something hurtful and then there's resentment when they go ahead and get it and other people say the same thing. I had a friend get what looks like a gang tattoo. I told her... more... - Anika Malone
Face Blindness
"Do you forget people's face? Do you have trouble recognising people? You may be sufferring from face blindness, also known as Prosopagnosia. It's like dyslexia, but with faces instead of letters. This condition was only discovered ten years ago, and it's estimated that as many as one in fifty of us may have it to some degree." - AJ Batac via Bookmarklet
I saw a show on this! It's very interesting - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Why Does Bottled Water Have an Expiration Date? - http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs...
Why Does Bottled Water Have an Expiration Date?
"poland-springHave you ever wondered why that bottle of Poland Spring has a “drink by” date on it when common sense dictates that water doesn’t go bad? You can thank the great state of New Jersey. A 1987 NJ state law required all food products sold there to display an expiration date of two years or less from the date of manufacture. Labeling, separating and shipping batches of expiration-dated water to the Garden State seemed a little inefficient to bottled water producers, so most of them simply started giving every bottle a two-year expiration date, no matter where it was going." - AJ Batac via Bookmarklet
have you tasted 'old' water? very 'plasticy' - nicefishfilms
Paul Anka – I Don't Like to Sleep Alone - http://blip.fm/profile...
Paul van Dyk – Another Way (Radio Edit) - http://blip.fm/profile...
Paul van Dyk – Today (Trance-Ambient Mix) - http://blip.fm/profile...
Paul Anka – Lonely Boy - http://blip.fm/profile...
Paul Van Dyk – Nothing But You - http://blip.fm/profile...
Paul Van Dyk Featuring Jessica Sutta – White Lies (Radio Edit) - http://blip.fm/profile...
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