Palm geekage, and Go

I'm enjoying my Palm Zire 71, and have shown her off to several of you already.
Herein are some things I am still puzzling out or spending time with.
Games: Priorities being what they are, please to be telling me of fun and interesting Palm games. The Dope Wars port is okay. I've been wasting lots of time with Space Trader (a Palm game based on various old BBS Door games. Warfare Incorporated is a nifty RTS game (ala Command and Conquer), but the lack of random map generation and the short list of maps included in the pay version make me balk at paying $30 USD for it. Ancient Red (Diablo like game) didn't boot. PalmTown seems to be one of the better game download sites: http://www.palmtown.com/ .
Go: How should I learn to play Go, now that I have a set (and on the Palm, too)? Besides sucking down all of Hikaru no Go thru BT ;), which I will do, slowly ?
Hackage: I can't get LispMe sorted out with respect to it's library functions. They are supposed to be loaded in as Memos, but I can't seem to get them to import properly, despite following the instructions on the LispMe site. Pippy (Python) runs but doesn't do much, since it's a stripped build of 1.5.2. I've SuperWaba, and I picked up some cool games that way, but I don't know what else it's good for really. Pocket Smalltalk seems insanely cool, but I can't make it dance without grokking Smalltalk and Squeak quite a bit more (And my Smalltalk tutorial attempts have been unpleasant .. )
Media: CSpotRun, my long-time favourite reader program for Palm does not seem to fully support the new OS. I'm guessing at that. It runs and all, but the screen rotation doesn't work. So, I'm using Palm's Reader, which is pretty good. The camera works well, and syncs the JPEGs to my home directory, from whence I can fling them hither or import them into iPhoto, and then push them to snapshots site. (The workflow sucks, but ti all works). The Mp3 player works well, but hasn't seen much use. I suspect I'll need to buy a much bigger memory chip before I'll use that much. I haven't bothered to squish many more video clips or PDF files into the thing, although I can. I've been encoding Heinlein e-texts to Palm, but I'm being driven to copy-edit the damn things.

Languages: I fooled around with bdicty (http://www.beiks.com/palmzonebg/) and it seems a nice platform. My natural aversion to shareware and commercialware has me looking around for a free alternative, even though the prices are fairly reasonable, particularly the packages.
I have found a rather nice japanese dictionary and kanji-thingy in PAdict (http://padict.sourceforge.net/ ). It lets you look up english words by kana or gana, or japanese by english, and also has support for PocketKanji which lets you scribble kanji on the screen and it tries to puzzle out which one you meant (nb stroke order must be right!). Very cool. Quite helpful in practicing the kanji I've learned from LRNJ (http://lrnj.com/)

Twiddling bits, sitting at home, tuesday, rambling

Well, I owe five questions to at least three nyms (ref), and I've been slack. To avoid further delay on my end, here are all of your questions:

1. What do you want be when you grow up?


2. What's your PM ( Primary Motivation: religion, raisson d'etre, what gets you out of bed in the morning )?


3. What thing[s] do you want to do that you aren't, and why not?


4. What's wrong with America (or if you want to pick on Americans instead, that's fine too)? Name something that can be done about it. Why haven't you done that already?


5. Pick a song that embodies your philosophy on life.

Here are some bits of data that might interest various individuals (or nyms): DeKalb Continuing Education offers Spanish I in various schedules at either Clarkston or Dunwoody for $ 225 USD (includes textbook). Spanish II is 199 and uses the same text.
Although I'm glancing at the Spring listings, and those classes have started (GPC thinks spring starts in January), they were is the following schema: 5 Saturdays (10-13:15), eight Mondays and Wednesdays (2900-2100), or eight Tues/Thurs (1900-2100). Each class is 16 hrs and 1.6 CEU. The Spanish II classes start in early March, so they may in fact be available. They also offer two classes of Chinese.

Bnetd, the controversial video game networking software project (They implemented the functionality of Blizzard corp's Battle.net service for those behind firewalls. Blizzard's attack weasels asserted that they were enabling people to use bootled copies of Blizzard's games. They were not.), has been absorbed into the Player Vs Player Gaming Network project, over at http://www.pvpgn.org/ A quick look over the FAQ shows that they may support every game Blizzard ever manufactured, but getting the Diablo II series games going is more work than the rest.

Computer Consulting 101 dot com is offering to let you listen to a four part audio seminar: "Discover 5 Easy Ways to Grow Your Computer Consulting Business" in the hope that you will be enticed to purchase their Professional Kit of audio CD, sample documents, and such for about $400 USD. See http://www.computerconsultingkit.com/listen-now/ I haven't listened to it yet, and I am quite skeptical, but I thought this might interest the readership, perhaps only as entertainment. The topic of the computer business is distressing to me personally, as I have no Johnsons, no clients, and no paying gigs scheduled before the dreizeitverdammt Haunted House. (Contrast with November 2003)

And as for the rest of it, I am still gathering data, and have no conclusions to report. I'm reading through Stranger in a Strange Land on my palm, and I have paperbacks of Angels and Demons and three Ringworld books queued up. Jane Eyre has gone all Dickens on me (reform school, yuck), and I may have to give up on it. Particularly after fighting through the nut-hatch scenes in EST and the nasty nightmare that gave me the next night *shudder*, the memory of which has faded down to just my reactions.