This is my first rodeo.

I love the western expression, "This ain't my first rodeo."  It has all the cowboy cool of "hey, I know what I'm doing" with plenty of swagger and confidence.

Cowboy, including cool, swagger and confidence.

And of course, sometimes we say it even when it is our first rodeo. Sometimes it's better to fake it until we make it, to feign competence until we attain it.

Cowgirl, also confident, slightly less swagger.

Real Cowgirl, who is so confident she doesn't even need a hat or swagger.  And she's actually working with Cows, near San Francisco Creek, Colorado.

And, sometimes it's good to confess I have no idea what I'm doing.  Help me. The trick, of course, is knowing which attitude to take when.

Skipping the opportunity to be creepy?

I've been thinking about "Creepiness".  What makes something/someone creepy?  I think it has something to do with degrees of intimacy.  If you're a close friend or lover, I'll tolerate all sorts of stuff.  If I've just met you, or you're a stranger, that behavior/comment will be creepy.

Let's make a list of things that are potentially creepy:

"I like the way you smell." --Uttered by a female friend while shopping for perfumes, less creepy.  Uttered by a stranger (of any gender) on the bus/at work, creepy.

"You wore that dress two weeks ago, too!" --well, maybe that's always creepy.  Are you keeping a calendar, Stalker McStalkerson?

I wanna "crowdsource" the rest of this blog entry.  What are other creepy scenaria?

So as to appear less creepy, I try to monitor my comments and behaviors, frequently skipping the opportunity to be creepy.  If we're foursquare friends, and I notice you're at the same place a lot, how creepy is it for me to comment to you in person about it?  I suppose the purpose of social media, especially this location-based tech like foursquare and scvngr, is meant to foster that kind of intimacy. So maybe we should embrace this opportunity to be more intimate, to tie together our lives and experiences?