My first Start-Up Mixer event.. Nerd Alert!

A few nights ago I went to the SF Beta event in San Francisco. What does "SF Beta" mean you might ask?? Well, from what I gather, it is just an excuse to cram 150-200 mostly computer nerds into one room and have them get cyber hard-ons while explaining their start-up websites to one another. It really was spectacular. There was enough Ram pulsating through that room to sink one of the smaller Peloponnesian islands.

Since these are the supposed innovative people changing the world, they have started trends that I hope die very soon. Such as dropping the letter "e" on their titles or company names on their name tags. For instance- and I think we can all blame Flickr.com for this- a person isn't a programmer, but rather a programmr. They are a Directr. They are an Inspectr. When they're mad, they Bickr. After writing several pages of code, they presumably get a bonr. You get the point.

We were getting free drinks, which made all the Web 2.0 nonsense talk considerably better. We also received a free gift bag, which included a pint glass, a coffee mug, a pen and what I though was a highlighter, but turned out to be a screw driver. This was the most exciting part of the night. Other than demo'ing the site "Likebetter.com", which is a website that determines what you like/who you are, after you click on images for a while, and having it tell me that I'm a smoker and I don't drink. Ironically, even though I despise smoking and I had a beer in my hand, he'll probably be a millionaire in few months.

Still a fun event to go to, as the venue was the same venue as the Matadortravel.com launch party in March, and the Managr comped us drinks all night.