#sw20sf Scoping out the laptop bags at startup weekend. Will tweet if I find any man purse treasures!

Immediately after posting I saw that this had been tweeted just a moment before by someone with the handle of  @adamjackson:

adamjackson Heads up: If you're a single guy in SF. Head to #sw20sf it's a 4:1 ratio of talented geeky women. Woot! http://women20sf.eventbrite.com/

Correction: talented & HOT geeky women. #sw20sf 4 days ago from Tweetie

Who was this cheeky tweeter?  I couldn’t resist replying with my own sassy tweet: 

manpurse To all the men checking out the hot geek girls at #sw20sf. I am checking YOU out (that is, your man purses.) How's THAT for Women 2.0?

I think one of the things that makes Twitter (and other forms of internet communication) so much fun is that you can say what you want from the comfort of your own home, without ever meeting the people you’re communicating to/at.  In this situation, however, I was tweeting about people whom I was in the same room with.  How weird.  It brought back memories of the high school computer lab where I once chatted brazenly and anonymously on some archaic system I can’t identify.  I remember feeling delighted as I saw people immediately reacting to things that I felt entirely comfortable typing anonymously to my classmates, but would never say out loud.  Another H.S. memory has me chatting on the internet with some classmates while on a break from working on a school video project.  I immediately greeted the chatroom with something to the effect of “Christina's in da house!!” and felt confused and surprised when my classmates burst out into a fit of giggles.  Apparently my online alter-ego and I were shockingly different.

Anyways, I wasn’t prepared for people to try and connect the online me with the IRL me.  But a certain Mr. Adam Jackson had spread the word that he was trying to find @manpurse.  At the end of the day I walked to his workspace and introduced myself.

Mr. Jackson proudly showed me his bag – a gear pouch from SFbags.com.  Browsing SFbags’s site, you’ll find the ubiquitous black nylon styles, but also an exceedingly handsome model (did you just get chills after reading those three words?  I did…) called the MuzettoMuzetto courtesy of sfbags.com (See?  It’s even Italian like Fabio.)  What is consistent throughout SFbags’ line is that all their products are well-designed, well-made, and smart (I like my bags the way I like my men - leathery, handsome and smart.  Okay, maybe not leathery, but I am a sucker for smart.)

I was impressed to hear how Adam used his bag.  Inside this pouch were all his necessary man-cessories : iPhone, Canon Powershot G10, Flip Ultra Camcorder , keys, wallet, and Aveeno Lip Balm .   During the day, this pouch lives in his backpack (I did not bother looking at the backpack, because I assumed it was not handsome enough to tempt me.)  But at night, when Adam is out on the town (and Adam gets around – he makes a point to go to no less than two tech parties a week.) Adam carries the pouch as a grip (a man-clutch.) 

It has been a personal mission of mine to find a man who carries a grip.  Ideally, this man would be famous footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo (toting his Gucci man-clutch,)Looking remarkably subtle, Cristiano ditches the Guccci clutch for his Louis Vuitton Damier Geant bag. Courtesy of "In LVoe with Louis Vuitton" but I can see the beauty in Adam’s pouch-by-day/grip-by-night.  In black and grey, it is color-coordinated with Adam’s black glasses, cap, and grey shirt.  Also, Adam showed me that the interior of the bag is a playful and functional yellow (because it’s hard to find things in a bag with a black liner!  Bonus feature: it’s also Adam’s favorite color.)  Is this geek-chic?  Yes, it is.

I will not bother telling you much more about Adam because it would be redundant.  You see, in addition to being a "citizen journalist", and the author of an upcoming book about micro-blogging, he is also quite possibly the most internet-connected person I have ever met--spending four hours a day on social networks, and churning out content on ten Twitter accounts.  So yeah, check him out for yourself.

Stay tuned for the results of what is inside Simeon's man purse.

Peace out, yo.  Huh?  I mean, 'Be seeing you!'