Facebook party: fun for the ladies

Facebook's party last night at the chichi Austin hot spot Pangaea was the swingingest SXSW party I've been to. I'm guessing it was better than Google's, at least according to the dispatch from L.A. Times blog czar Tony Pierce, who didn't give it the thumbs up. 

Even though there was no sign of famous, and now slightly more infamous, FB founder Mark Zuckerberg, there were plenty of interesting folks there, an endless fountain of Red Bull-based drinks, and some pretty great bass-booming music supplied by DJ BT and company.

I was certainly grooving to it.  And I wasn't the only one:

Honestly, I did not cherry-pick this photo -- pan left or right and you'd see the same. Semi-surprised at the dancing crowd's demography, I looked around to see if there were any females who might help me figure out what was up with the dude-o-rama.

There was one:

Lauren Jacob from Revolution Health was perched on top of a couch, safely out of the reach of the dude hordes, like the lovely Penelope aloft from her suitors.

As was only proper in my reportorial capacity, I approached Jacob to ask her for her take on the situation.  Whatever her answer was, it was too loud to hear, and after three failed attempts to get me to understand, she whipped out her iPhone and wrote two lines:

Here's the zoomed-in version:

("Tech / Good ratio for girls")

Too true.  I left the place not long after, generously creating a more favorable ratio for my fellow guys.