I used to be quite the geek, glasses and all. So a lot of the girls I know around here still see that in me. They still talk to me, but I know they think I'm the nice guy. However, when I'm meeting people for the first time, all of a sudden I'm higher up the ladder, without having to apply the ladder theory.

Only thing that sucks about that is that a lot of them don't know the nice guy Colin and think I'm just trying to put one up on the scoreboard.
In that vein, vacations work out pretty well. Especially the awesomeness that is the cruise ship. There you are forced to hang out with the people around you. But then when she goes back to Chicago/Seattle/Toronto, and I go back to Vancouver it's pretty stupid.
But I've got a couple thing emerging on the horizons right now.