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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Day 26: Mego’s The World’s Greatest Superheroes
If you grew up in the seventies there was really no way to avoid Mego’s “The World’s Greatest Superheroes” collection, which featured both DC and Marvel figure. Here’s a list of them all I snagged from the Mego article on … Continue reading
Day 27: Stretch Monster
Now, I have to admit that Stretch Armstong was very cool, and I had one growing up. But when I saw the commercial for Stretch Armstrong’s arch nemesis Stretch Monster I was sold, I think the music sealed the deal. … Continue reading
High Anxiety
Right now I’m enjoying a cable comma. And one of my favorite parts of cable is looking at how they are programming channels. To me HBO is shot right now, nothing interesting whatsoever, given I hate Curb Your Enthusiasm, and … Continue reading
Day 28: Star Wars Death Star Space Station
Back in 1978, this was without question my single favorite toy of all time, and in my opinion the greatest of the Kenner Star Wars toys back in the day. A given it’s pure awesomeness it in many ways remains … Continue reading
Day 29: Navarone Playset
I was never a big soldier figurine kid, I had my share of tanks and little green soldiers, but I was often far more impressed with the Fisher Price sets, which had all kinds of trippy nooks and crannies. That … Continue reading
Days 87-30: Atari 2600 Cartridges
Just when you thought it was safe to read the bava, I got fifty-seven more entries as an attempt to catch up on my 110 Toys to Xmas series, this post should serve three functions: 1) Catch me up, so … Continue reading
Maybe Mr. T’s pretty handy with computers
What’s not to love about Mr. T? And given I am now cable-enabled, I am catching the Mr. T World of Warcraft commercials, and I can’t help but love this bit. I am gonna have to use this. Keep in … Continue reading
A Yawp for Help! Describing Whitman in the World
Meghan Edwards is a student in the Digital Whitman class here at UMW, and she has come up with an extremely interesting idea for a final project that takes advantage of the social networking tools we have been using this … Continue reading
Bloggers, as seen by Hollywood
I just saw a part of Made of Honor (2008)—couldn’t stomach the whole thing—which is a derivative romantic comedy that is nothing more than a vehicle for the “dreamy” Patrick Dempsey. I have been musing about the scene and how … Continue reading
MapLib
George Meadows from the Education department here at UMW just turned Martha and I on to MapLib. It’s a tool that basically allows you to add web-based images to the site and lay the Google Maps interface on top of … Continue reading