Things I learned lately 15 Sep

• The newest Apple watch has a neat feature enabled by its intelligent sensors. If your hands are tied up in that you can’t tap the screen of the watch to answer a call or switch to other screens, you can tap your index finger and thumb together instead.
• Cardston Alberta, a town that has had a ban on alcohol sales for 121 years, is finally lifting that ban. The town was founded by Mormon settlers and refused to go along when prohibition was lifted in 1923. Based on census data, the town is still 60% Mormon.
• Canada is definitely not the only country regulating that Facebook pays for news it posts on its social network.
• There are now cruises that ply the Canadian Northwest Passage, which is free of ice now for several months in the summer.
• You cannot legally buy Coca Cola in Cuba and North Korea, and now Russia.
• You can hum a song in Google search on your phone to figure out what it is. Tap the microphone icon, then the ‘search a song’ button. Hum or sing the song in your head.
  
  
  
• Some of the early names suggested for The Band included "The Honkies", and "The Crackers".
• PepsiCo has fully switched to the Tesla electric semi truck at one of their California depots and they love them. They will convert more of their fleet to Tesla.
• If you have money to burn and long for the days of tube amplifiers, McIntosh is reviving their famous MC3500 in a Mark II variant. It’s the mono block amp used at Woodstock, don’t you know. 350 watts per unit. $15,000 each. You’ll need 2 if you want stereo.