Drove up to the Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack for lunch with Pete Fiorese, fellow ex-Olympian and IBMer. Palisades Center Mall is a gargantuan monstrosity of big-box stores stacked upon each other. It has to be one of the largest, if not the largest, in terms of size, malls I've ever been in. Lots of stores, but not so much to buy.

I did pick up a pretty nifty gadget for my ipod: a Griffin Airclick (Amazon link). It's an RF based remote control for the latest generation (dockable) iPods. It clips into the top, with the receiver getting juice from the iPod. The handheld transmitter comes with a battery already installed (it appears replaceable, but not easily). Anyway, I tried it out on the drive back and it worked great, though this is probably not good news for anyone who gets frustrated at my tendency to listen to all tracks on random shuffle, skipping frequently from track to track until I hit a sequence I like.

I also picked up Photoshop elements for the Mac so I can do some hideous design work for a project I'm working on.