Comments on: How-To: Pocket-Sized Maps for the iPod http://www.27months.com/2009/01/how-to-pocket-sized-maps-for-the-ipod/ Cameroon from a technologist's point of view Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:21:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: billz http://www.27months.com/2009/01/how-to-pocket-sized-maps-for-the-ipod/comment-page-1/#comment-7880 billz Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:55:36 +0000 http://www.27months.com/?p=546#comment-7880 @BamendaBabe, enjoyed your tribute to Bolifamba. Re: inauguration day crowds and ants, I can't help but be reminded of the Family Guy episode where Bill Gates & Michael Eisner are flying with their jetpacks and looking down at the people below. Michael Eisner: "They look like ants from up here." Bill Gates: "They ARE Ants Michael! They ARE Ants!" :) @BamendaBabe, enjoyed your tribute to Bolifamba.

Re: inauguration day crowds and ants, I can’t help but be reminded of the Family Guy episode where Bill Gates & Michael Eisner are flying with their jetpacks and looking down at the people below.

Michael Eisner: “They look like ants from up here.”
Bill Gates: “They ARE Ants Michael! They ARE Ants!”

:)

]]> By: BamendaBabe http://www.27months.com/2009/01/how-to-pocket-sized-maps-for-the-ipod/comment-page-1/#comment-7764 BamendaBabe Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:30:33 +0000 http://www.27months.com/?p=546#comment-7764 Wouldn't it be nice though, if you could put the mountain in your pocket and take it everywhere? Looks like you've succeeded. I get a little crazy just seeing the mountain on this topo map, looking like a big, brown pimple, a "zit" on the soft, green face of Southwestern Cameroon. I got excited, too, seeing a place called Bolifamba on this map. It is one of the few places I can say I have set foot in. I once visited Bakingili in 2004 so I must have passed by Batoke but never even knew the place existed. I never ventured very much, on foot, beyond Mile 17. All those hidden places inside and outside Buea and further down to the coast, all mostly invisible to me. So here is my tribute to Bolifamba, just another quiet place on the map of Buea. http://myafricanfather.blogspot.com/2009/01/bitter-kola-and-farmer-from-bolifamba.html And here's a sweet treat. From the Geo-Eye (eye? really? sounds scary). I'm guessing you found it already, but it's got a nice CNN video showing the crowds on Jan 20. True, the people look like "ants," tiny specks and all one brownish-gray mass of humanity, locked in the eye of a satellite. http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/01/satellite-image-of-inauguration-day.html Wouldn’t it be nice though, if you could put the mountain in your pocket and take it everywhere? Looks like you’ve succeeded.

I get a little crazy just seeing the mountain on this topo map, looking like a big, brown pimple, a “zit” on the soft, green face of Southwestern Cameroon.

I got excited, too, seeing a place called Bolifamba on this map. It is one of the few places I can say I have set foot in. I once visited Bakingili in 2004 so I must have passed by Batoke but never even knew the place existed. I never ventured very much, on foot, beyond Mile 17. All those hidden places inside and outside Buea and further down to the coast, all mostly invisible to me. So here is my tribute to Bolifamba, just another quiet place on the map of Buea.
http://myafricanfather.blogspot.com/2009/01/bitter-kola-and-farmer-from-bolifamba.html

And here’s a sweet treat. From the Geo-Eye (eye? really? sounds scary). I’m guessing you found it already, but it’s got a nice CNN video showing the crowds on Jan 20. True, the people look like “ants,” tiny specks and all one brownish-gray mass of humanity, locked in the eye of a satellite.
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/01/satellite-image-of-inauguration-day.html

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