I've been very negligent not to mention this until now, but today is "Prime Day" at Amazon.com. It's for Prime members only, but there are lots of deals (including this very non-photographic item which I can heartily recommend—I love mine), and of course there are various inducements to join Prime.
Seagate hard drives are Prime Day specials. Time for more backup storage? Although unlimited free photo storage is also free with Prime.
Amazon Prime gives you free shipping year-round and access to all sorts of free media. Amazon Prime Video is my main source of movies these days, for instance—I've let Netflix lapse. I watched "The 24-Hour War" two nights ago, a documentary about the Ford-Ferrari rivalry at LeMans in the 1960s.
There's more, of course—a lot more. Very sorry for not being more on top of this—apparently I have a lazy assistant. ;-P
Mike
(Thanks to Kent)
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Hey Mike
You should look up a story that is making the rounds in Canada about how people in communities in the far north use Amazon Prime to get all kinds of things shipped to them. Buying through Amazon and getting things shipped is cheaper than buying locally in Nunavut. The number of packages being sent is staggering. As Doug Saunders, a columnist at The Globe and Mail, put it on Twitter, those folks way up in Iqaluit are significantly responsible for Amazon being unable to turn a profit.
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Peter Mountford
Posted by: Peter Mountford | Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 04:49 PM
I have snapped up an Amazon Echo for a little over half price, having been given an Echo Dot for my birthday. So far I've been using the Dot for weather, news and radio, and dictating shopping lists to my phone. I'm planning to have one in the living room and one in the bedroom, and let them control some lights.
Posted by: David Evans | Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 05:07 PM
Hi Mike,
We've owned the same pressure cooker for nearly two years now and second your assessment. It's great, convenient, and practical on every level. Besides, tasty meals are ready in minutes, and the the clean up's a breeze. I know this isn't food critic lingo, but, hey, at the price this is nearly indispensable. Readers could do a lot worse than head to Amazon on this one.
Robert
Posted by: Robert Lietz | Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 05:54 PM
We have an Instant Pot and it's a wonderful invention!
That aside, today's Prime Day was underwhelming chez moi. Turns out I don't really need that much more STUFF, at least not what was on offer. 50% off Printfile pages and (especially) binders, along with film (35mm, 120, 4x5,) would have been a winner for me.
Posted by: Earl Dunbar | Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 07:17 PM
The 24-Hour War was good!
Posted by: Matthew L | Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 08:01 PM
Maybe don't trust a Seagate with anything you can't stand to be without. Failure rates seem to be abnormally high. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/
Posted by: Chad Thompson | Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 08:20 PM