Today's Public Service Announcement

It's been a very interesting and informative morning here at QBHQ. This post started out as a quick reminder to all those tools out there who STILL insist on wearing those ridiculous bluetooth headsets. I thought I would be providing a service - a style tip if you will - to North Cackilaky drivers before the July 1 cell phone laws go into effect.

Well. Having done a little research and confirming this directly with a very friendly (please read with appropriate sarcasm) customer service representative from NCDOT, it turns out that in fact NorCar does NOT have a handheld cell phone law going into effect. It has twice been submitted to the legislature and to date has not been passed. So there you have it. Feel free to continue to drive at mach speeds up and down the roads of our fine state yakking away on your cell phone. Go ahead! Put it right up to your ear! Who needs both hands on the wheel? Just do me a favor. If you choose to put safety first and employ the bluetooth ear device, please put style second and take it off when you're finished talking.

I also stumbled across this little tidbit from howstuffworks.com. Don't know if it's true but I found this really funny so it doesn't matter.

Why is it called Bluetooth? Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late
900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his
son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how
important companies from the Nordic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden,
Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little
about the way the technology works.

God help us if anyone ever invents the "forkbeard."