Brian Alvey: Adventure's his bread. Excitement's his butter.

The Viceroy Santa Monica: It's where code comes from.

We have another one of those CodeJams coming up soon and the pressure is on me to make it as interesting as our last one.

This weekend Niki and I caught up on three episodes of Alias and three Sopranos. During one Alias they showed the Santa Monica pier, so I pointed out how we stayed nearby for our last CodeJam and some of the landmarks like the Pacific Coast Highway.

Then during Christopher's trip to LA on the Sopranos, he stayed at our CodeJam hotel, the Viceroy. I showed Niki the lobby (where we saw Michelle Rodriguez from Lost doing an EW photo shoot), the bar, the pools (where we watched CSI: Miami shoot a scene one morning), the elevators where they hassle Ben Kingsley and the hotel room where Christopher does lines of coke with a prostitute. It was just like reliving our L.A. trip.

Business Week's Jon Fine has the Viceroy on his list of product placements on The Sopranos so far this season. He comments that the Viceroy is "beachside" as long as by beachside you mean "across the street from the beach". "Across a busy street and one long long block away from beachside" just doesn't sound the same, does it?

I'm not sure I am going to be able to find us similar Hollywood-level excitement in Westchester.

Maybe we'll just build some interesting stuff, get to know our two new team members and eat well. I'll let you know if we do anything interesting.

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C.K. 1399 days ago

Are those new Westchester Trump towers up yet? If so, just buy one of those pimpin' pads. ;-)
Alex Rudloff 1399 days ago

Memorial day BBQ at the Alvey Manor. I'll bring the ketchup.
Randall Bennett 1399 days ago

Hey,

I think the only way a westchester codejam gets cool, is if somehow C.K. and I come up there and bust out those segway 4x4s.

And, the knee pads are a must, especially for people attending Mike's breakfast parties.

=)

Cya,

Randall
Craig 1399 days ago

And danger that's like STRAWBERRY JAM to top it off.

What's all this talk about boring Personal Transportation Devices.. How about riding something that really moves:

http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/CT/LimeRock.html

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