1. Using the headset in a situation that does not demand a headset
   • Follow this general rule: If your hands are busy, you can wear it. This includes times such as driving and carrying groceries. This does not include times such as walking around.
2. Acting like an jerk
   • So you own a phone with bluetooth, you’re not really special. Most new phones come with the protocol. Normal people don’t automatically know that you’re so important you can’t hold a phone to your ear. The things are small enough you can’t see them right away so you just look crazy.
3. Having two conversations at the same time
   • This is the one that really bothers me. I find it very rule when someone is on the phone trying to order something at Starbucks or other establishment. The people don’t know who you are talking to and then you rudely mention that you are on the phone. Hang up for a second and place your take care of your business.
4. Wearing it all the time
   • I was sitting next to a man in the movies wearing his headset. The blue blinking was bothering me so I asked if he could remove it. He pulled a number 2. Please don’t wear it all the time. If you just have to use it put it in your pocket and when your phone rings put it on.
5. Not learning from their mistakes
   • A few years ago my roommates and I were accosted by an RA. He happened to have a bluetooth headset. This was the first person I had ever seen with one and I had no idea what was going on. He explained that we were being loud. We were, my 500 watt stereo mostly to blame. Then he started back on his phone conversation. I said excuse me and he pointed to his ear with his headset. We had a few other run-ins with the RA that semester and he was always on his phone and he would always do the same thing.

Verizon has cable service. Apparently, though every time I look into it the service is always coming soon to my area. It’s been this way for about five years. I should call up Verizon and see what their definition of soon happens to be, though they’d probably have a problem with the math of it all.

I don’t think I’ve ever been happy with my services. I pay too much for internet and whatever they decide extended basic cable is this month. I understand the occasional outage; I’ll let a storm knock down the lines that’s fine. I don’t watch a lot of TV anyways.

What really bothers me is the hiccups in service. This is how it usually happens. You’re watching a program and right at the height of tension the cable hangs, the picture freezes and the sound stops. It’s annoying and happens twice an hour.

I figured this was simply an issue in Prince George’s County or even just unique to College Park. Nope. It happens at my parents’ house and my friends’ house, actually it seems to be a pretty normal hiccup.

You’d think the Comcast monopoly would have sorted providing constant service, you’d think.

Even as I write this there is a new commercial about cable competition and high speed internet. This is almost laughable. The average US broadband connection tops out at about 1.9 Mbps. This isn’t even considered high speed “FCC definition of high speed … not less than 2 megabits per second (mbps) download and not less than 1 mbps upload.” Strange huh? This is from the Communication Workers of America’s report to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Our internet isn’t even remotely fast in comparison to the average in Japan. It’s 61 Mbps if you were wondering.

Cable competition works, why look at their profits in quarter 1 this year. They netted $837 million compared to $466 million just a year ago. Check out the Washington Post article for yourself.

At least there is competition so we’re able to choose a better service. Ha. One day Verizon may come to my area, but I’m sure they’re no better.

Cable competition doesn’t work because it doesn’t exist.