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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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.
I am Jim Groom
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Summer of Love: Blades of Steel
https://bavatuesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/blades_of_steel_theme.mp3 Blades of Steel Theme Song I love Blades of Steel, it still stands as one of the greatest console games of the 1980s, and I’ve been waiting for a DJ to discover and remix all the sound effects into … Continue reading
Summer of Love: Luke Waltzer
I love Luke Waltzer’s new blog Bloviate. More specifically, I love that Luke Waltzer is finally blogging at a steady clip in his own space. Luke and I came up as instructional technologists at CUNY (long before Boone even knew … Continue reading
Weird Visual Editor Issue on WP 3.0, RC 1
Having an odd issue on bavatuesdays that I can’t reproduce on any other sites in my install (namely jimgroom.net. wpmued.org, etc.). I can’t see the buttons in the visual editor, by default my visual editor icons in the Add New … Continue reading
Upgrading from WPMu to WP 3.0: Keep your config!
I just updated to the latest version of WordPress 3.0 (release candidate 1) and one of the things I realized while upgrading my own sites is that you should really keep your WPMu wp-config.php file. I figured that I would … Continue reading
Summer of Love: Dragonfire
Here’s an Atari 2600 game I forgot in my toy post on cartridges, and thinking back on Dragonfire, it was probably one of the better early 2600 games. What’s more, the graphics are an interesting mashup of the Pitfall! character … Continue reading
Summer of Love: IHOP
The International House of Pancakes makes the Summer of Love cut, and not only because the 1969 commercial below may be one of the trippiest you will ever see. After a long Summer’s day at the most beautiful beach’s in … Continue reading
bava’s Summer of Love 2010
Image credit: “Summer of Love Gathering of Tribes in San Francisco” That’s right, it’s time for some extended love on the bava, because as Mikhail Gershovich regularly notes, “There is no love like the bava love.” The project is simple, … Continue reading
Under Construction: Some bava theme repair
Update: Now on latest version of K2, comments working once again. Update: Back to Twenty 10 for now. Update: And back to K2 for ood now My old gold theme, a vintage K2 theme version 0.91, seems to have been … Continue reading
I’ll Miss You Mu!!
It is kind of weird to write this, but as of today the bava is no longer powered by WordPress Multi-User. I have upgraded this site to WP 3.0 Beta 2. For almost three years now this site has been … Continue reading