The Weekly Nullrouted Space Digest
Hi there! It's packetcat coming to you with your weekly list of the things I wrote for my blog.
Go-To Comfort Media
I reckon most of us have certain books, movies, TV shows, music, podcasts, and other media that we turn to when we need some comfort. These are things we’ve seen, read, or heard before — often many times — and know exactly what we’re going to get from them. Jason Kottke, What’s Your Go-to Comfort Media? …
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Review: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
First book of the year and the first book review of the year! I bought this book back in November 2023 when I saw it on sale on the Kobo ebook store along with a bunch of other books that were also on sale. I glad I finally got around to reading this one. Let’s …
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Subscription Fatigue 2: The Good Ones
Reading a blog post on Om Malik’s blog about Americans cancelling streaming service subscriptions reminded me of a blog post I wrote in 2020 titled Subscription Fatigue. I wanted to revisit the topic to hash out how I’m feeling about the topic nowadays. It is not a surprise to me that as things get more …
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Musical Hyperfocus – Against the Current
Every once in a while YouTube recommendation algorithm drops something into my feed that I really resonate with. It was a video from the pop punk band Against the Current and it instantly hooked me. Along with the song itself, I love the vibes in the video. Live performance videos just have that something extra, …
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2023 Reflections and 2024 Resolutions
Here we are at the end of another year. As is increasingly the case for me, this time of year I find myself reflecting on the past twelve months and setting large somewhat ambiguous goals for the upcoming twelve months. Last year’s post on this matter was titled Finding Focus. This year I opted to …
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Media Diet – December 2023
December is usually a more reflective month for me and I don’t usually start very many new things but this time around out of a desire to get out of my reading slump to led to reading a new (to me) series. I read all three books in V. E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic series, …
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The packetcat Combined Media Challenge of 2024
In 2022, I did a challenge where I read one book a week and in the spirit of that challenge I am going to be doing a slightly different challenge in 2024. I am calling it the Combined Media Challenge. The challenge is to: read a minimum of one book a month, watch one movie …
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