In addition to being your media columnist, I'm actually rather renowned for being a sensitive and thoughtful expert on social mores and etiquette. (If you didn't know that, well, screw you. Jerk.) Today's column addresses reader concerns about the proper use of Google Glass, Google's trendy face-mounted internet-connected computing device, which has been in the news a lot lately (e.g., last week Google showed off a new, less geeky line of designer frames for Glass). Following the extended Google Glass Explorer beta-testing program currently in progress, Google is expected to make the headgear widely available to the general public later this year.Q. Would you wear Google Glass in a bar?A. No. The etiquette standards on this front were established early on by a Seattle restaurant and bar called The Five Point Caf, which in March 2013 famously became one of the first establishments anywhere to preemptively ban Google Glass. "Ass kickings will be encouraged for violators" is an actual part of the bar's written policy.
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