all I can think of is in x-men 2, when wolverine jumps of the balcony and slashes shit up

Ughh... the CN tower has a glass floor too. And I'm completely scared of heights.

I've gone up on it twice now, once recently and I managed to set foot on it before almost crapping my pants. And before when I was about 4.

You also are aloud to go outside on a balcony of the tower, which is basically protected by an industrial strength wire fence. I went out there, and looked over the edge from about 5 feet away, Built up some courage and moved another foot closer to the ledge.

I put my left foot forward as I leaned closer to the edge and again lookde to the bottom. My mind played tricks on me and it felt like the tower started plummeting to ground level. After a few minutes, I took another step forward.

By now, I was proud of my accomplishment, 4 years old, and I could almost touch the railing.




It's about now my dad thought it would be a good idea to come up behind me and pretend to push me over.

...asshole.

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For me the music was overshadowed by the extraordinarily bizarre lifestyle. And dangling his kid over a balcony crossed the line from disturbed fantasist into something far more worrying.

And this was very probably responsible for his musical decline - by all accounts his recent stuff was terrible and over-produced.

This is my favorite summation of Atlas Shrugged:

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Roarke: You put balconies on my design?

Keating: I had to, besides, the tennants wanted them.

Roarke: The tenants?? Fuck the tenants, this is about me.

*****

It's been years since I read it, and I liked it at the time (the only book of hers I've ever read), but I remember looking it over again and seeing how alarmist and ultimately selfish it really was.

HAHAHA!

Not the one you were referring too, but funny nontheless.

abraham lincoln
A sexual act where you do your girl doggy style in the back of a theater balcony, then after you shoot your load all over her ass and back, yell SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS! then jump off the balcony and escape.

The crowd goes wild when the new face is seen at the exclusive city centre balcony..
M.I.N.T.!
M.I.N.T.!
M.I.N.T.!
M.I.N.T.!

Cheers!

From where I sit, it kinda looks like he is on a theatre balcony.

^Are you a sound engineer? If so, maybe you should read John Huntington's blog and learn a few things. Here's what he had to say:

"And so, when we have a sound system where we want people to hear some distance away from the stage, sound system engineers have to take this into account. Speakers at a distance from the stage (like at the concert pictured in the video) must be intentionally delayed to get them to line up in time with the sound emanating from the stage. This happens because the electrons in the cables transfer the audio signal out to the delay speaker positions effectively, for our purposes, "instantly", while the sound waves, vibrating air molecules, can take many seconds to travel. And if the "delay" speakers, remote from the stage, are not aligned in time (even milliseconds matter), the audience will hear either destructive interference called "comb filtering", or perceive an echo. (Interestingly, from what I saw on screen, it appears that the large video displays on the mall were actually delayed to match the slowness of the sound.)"

adn here are some of the comments on the thread. (some of these are really cool)

-"Very cool way to show this "lag".

To geek you out further. Since heat rises, many sports arenas can have a 10degree or greater temperature difference from floor to ceiling during a show. Sound traveling through the top of the room to the balcony's gets to the last row before the sound on the floor.

This is not a constant. During sound check the room is much more balanced. But put 5,000 excited dancing people in the room. Now try and calculate your delays."

and

-"I know the effect well. When I mixed sound for outdoor rock festivals and they'd often times have the mixing booth a 200 - 300' from the stage.
I'd always have to slip the headphones on and mix that way when timing was critical. It was the only way you could time changes properly.

Most sound engineers didn't know this trick and they would always screw up the timing and couldn't figure out why.
The same engineers used to criticize my use of the headphones as they said you have to mix for the audience not for the headphones.
Well you can't mix for the audience if you have a 1/4 second time delay."

Very cool, but the video footage doesn't actually show very many interesting things. The Nike commercial was more impressive.

They should have picked a better city or something... I wanted to see death-defying leaps and scaling down buildings from balcony to balcony, not *running* on top of rooftops and only a few good drops.

Personally, if I lived in an apartment I'd rather them toss it up to my balcony than leave it at the front door...might as well hang a neon sign on it saying "steal me". At least it's an effort to actually get it to you.

>> ^Selektaa:
A while ago, I was expecting a package from UPS. I checked the tracking number at work, and it said it had been delivered. "Sweet," I think, and go about my day. When I get home a few hours later, there's no package to be found. I double check the tracking number, and sure enough, it says it was delivered that afternoon.
I call up my friend who works at UPS and has access to their computer system, and ask her to track it down for me. She says the system says that the package was delivered to the back door. WTF? I live in an apartment with one bedroom, and one door. She tells me to check my balcony, and sure enough, the box is sitting up there.
The driver had tossed the box ten feet up, over my balcony railing, leaving it at my "back door". Thankfully it was just a bunch of shirts, so nothing was harmed, but seriously, WTF?

I was reading this post and half expected to see my name at the bottom.
Got home one day and a FedEx label was in my door. "Drat, I missed them," I thought, expecting I'd have to drive across town to pick up my print server, but it said "delivered - balcony". I lived in a third floor apartment, and the package had been tossed from the stairwell, 10 feet up over the railing and onto the balcony.

I was flabbergasted, to the point where I took a few photos of the scene.

A while ago, I was expecting a package from UPS. I checked the tracking number at work, and it said it had been delivered. "Sweet," I think, and go about my day. When I get home a few hours later, there's no package to be found. I double check the tracking number, and sure enough, it says it was delivered that afternoon.

I call up my friend who works at UPS and has access to their computer system, and ask her to track it down for me. She says the system says that the package was delivered to the back door. WTF? I live in an apartment with one bedroom, and one door. She tells me to check my balcony, and sure enough, the box is sitting up there.

The driver had tossed the box ten feet up, over my balcony railing, leaving it at my "back door". Thankfully it was just a bunch of shirts, so nothing was harmed, but seriously, WTF?

Dinner with a bunch of people over at a friends house, then champagne on the balcony, then maybe on to massive fire cracker wars down in the streets. Or more champagne...

Woohoo! Hey that's my street! And it's only 4-500 feet long.
We can see my balcony, it's the blood red one.