…and oh what a beautiful thing it is. We made no special announcement, and we have kept the profile data to a bare minimum, and Martha just pulled the whole thing together with the awesome new theme (and who’s work shows no fear!). And I have to say I love the visual integration with BuddyPress, [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Then there is BuddyPress on UMW Blogs
Published by September 30th, 2009 in BuddyPress, UMW Blogs, WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 4 CommentsWPMu: State of the Union Here and Abroad
Published by September 29th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 10 CommentsWell, I have been deep in my toy blogging and out to sea in many regards, I become a home owner tomorrow, and just got back from an exhilarating talk in West Virginia that has my spirits up about a way of thinking about some things. The Me/We web, from Muhammad Ali to Walt [...]
Image credit: Wishbook’s “1976.xx.xx JCPenney Christmas Catalog P358″
I was never a big race car/race track fan, I had a few in my day put it never really got me excited like some other toys did. One of the few exceptions was the Putt-Putt Raceway which I got as four or five year old, and [...]
I’m not always so good at sharing my presentation materials because a lot of what I do is improvised at the moment. I rarely, if ever, have a prepared talk about a specific topic, but develop a conceit around which to frame some ideas I have been thinking about.
For the West Virginia Higher Education Technology [...]
As a very young bava this was without question one of the most magical toys I ever had. I mean the ice cream man was tantamount to God on my block growing up, and the idea that I could actually cruise around my house emulating him is not something to consider lightly for a malleable [...]
Mikhail here, everyone’s favorite guest poster on the bava. No one does hospitaliano like the bava, no one. — We have a two-fer today, the Twist aka Rubik’s Snake and the perennial favorite, the Sit n’ Spin. I chose the snake, Mrs. Mikhail chose the Sit n’ Spin.
Man, did I love my Rubik’s snake. The [...]
Just some more conceptual art from the bava. Remember now, I’m an artist.
Photo taken by the great Andy Rush.
What Would Tom Woodward do?
Published by September 25th, 2009 in insructional technology. 7 CommentsSo I have been preparing a post to discredit Tom Woodward because he is increasingly becoming everyone’s favorite technologist here at UMW’s DTLT, and quite frankly it’s driving me crazy. It’s always Tom Woodward this, and Tom Woodward that. Or even “What Would Tom Woodward Do?” It’s not fair, I mean I’m the bava, [...]
Mattel’s Snake Mountain had pretty impressive design in terms of the facade, the rotating snake and laughing mountain mouth were pretty wild. And while the backside of the toy was pretty lackluster at best (no comparison to the Fisher Price Castle, that’s for sure) which suggests the lack of attention to detail for many [...]
This is another early hand held digital video game from 1979 in the vein of the Tomy series, though in my mind far more sophisticated. In fact, I wasn’t a sports video game fan as a kid, but after playing this at a friend’s house I was blown away. I’m not sure whether it was [...]
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