Get a few drinks in freshly departed Valleywag party correspondent Megan McCarthy, and she will start loudly insisting, no matter what the subject of conversation, that she was involved somehow. You’re from New England? She’s from New England. You think your friend is pretty? She’s pretty, too. Valleywag had a scoop? That was her scoop! You played hockey in high school? She played hockey in high school. On that last point, we have obtained undeniable photographic proof. Enjoy! (Photo “courtesy” of jspepper)

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“Quick, post the pictures before you sober up!” the ever-helpful Paul Boutin emails me. I’d love to, Paul, but it seems that Brian Lam, gadget expert, forgot to put charged-up batteries in this superhigh-tech, amazingly unusable Sony camera he lent me. Thanks, Brian. This is why he’s running a gadget blog and I make fun of venture capitalists for a living, people.

I managed to snap this one pics-or-it-didn’t-happen piece of photographic evidence. It proves that good times were had by yours truly and Eric Eldon of VentureBeat. After that, I put down my now-useless, superhigh-tech, amazingly unusable Sony camera, which if I haven’t mentioned it, was lent to me by my good friend Brian Lam, gadget expert. I look prettier with a lemon drop in my hand than a camera anyway. Flickr photo sluts Terry Chay and Jeremy Pepper were also there, so you can check their streams for more.

Oh, and confidential to Caroline McCarthy of News.com: You were missed. And much discussed. No, we’re not telling you what was said about you. Hope you enjoyed those Mission margaritas, babe, but let me tell you, nothing’s sweeter than Valen’s cocktails, and nothing’s more bitterly delicious than North Beach gossip.

Did I mention that Brian Lam, my good friend, was a gadget expert? And that he lent me a camera?

Like one of those brave chimpanzees NASA sent to space before humans, CNET’s Caroline McCarthy today took to the heavens aboard the inaugural flight of “BetaBlue,” JetBlue’s new onboard Wi-Fi service. It’s supposed to allow passengers access to email and IM via their BlackBerrys and Yahoo accounts.

But, according to McCarthy’s account — “It all reminded me of an ultra-low-end mobile browser” — the service failed to meet even our modest expectations for it, crashing at least twice during the intrepid reporter’s journey.